I know that I’m not the only person who spends {wastes, procrastinates?} time looking at houses for sale in various bucket list destinations. Recently this house caught my attention…

It is often the details,  the small things, that capture my attention in Morocco.  Like these spools of thread that line the shelves of the weavers souk in Tangiers The…

Discovering the carpets of North Africa is like taking a highly patterned journey through some of the most remote areas of the Atlas Mountains before heading into the Sahara Desert.…

{image via} FIFTY SHADES OF GREEN Like so many Moroccan crafts and products, the distinctive style, design and technique of the Tamegroute pottery is embedded in practical neccesity, out of…

(image by Sarah Charpentier) I was recently commissioned to write a few articles for the lifestyle pages of The National News – I enjoyed writing this, as it is a…

As we vaguely shift into holiday mode (well it is August, even if we arent going anywhere . . . ) I thought it might be a good idea to…