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The Heart of Morocco

Posted on February 6, 2012 by tsraveling

It’s almost dark by the time my train pulls out of the Tangiers station and heads south into the interior of Morocco. Tangiers rises sharply as we approach its edge, house-lights in terraces along steep hills, and then we’re in … Continue reading →

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Music and the Moors

Posted on January 11, 2012 by tsraveling

Initially, my plan after Madrid is to head down to Córdoba, the historic capital of the Caliphate of Córdoba, which ruled the Islamic state of Al-Andalus for just over a hundred years in the tenth and eleventh centuries. But despite … Continue reading →

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In Bruges

Posted on July 29, 2011 by tsraveling

The train from Antwerp to Bruges takes less than two hours, a rattling across low green fields and through villages with narrow block houses. Above, gray skies that would be more or less a constant for the next week and … Continue reading →