Photo Gallery: Jemaa el-Fna
Jemaa el-Fna is the famous market square in Marrakech. Apart from stalls selling clothes, spices, and just about everything else, it is a place of...
Category: Past Times
Photo Gallery: the Souks
The entrance to the Souk is off the Jemaa el Fna. Actually one should say “Souks” since the area is divided according to merchandise type....
Photo Gallery: the Tanneries
In Marrakech in 1982 you got the impression that nothing was wasted in the town. Old cans were fashioned into rain water pipes, old tires...
Photo Gallery: Dyeing and Weaving
Nicky was entranced by the vibrant colours of the dyed materials hanging to dry. Bright colours too at a shop selling carpets and rugs. [Previous:...
Photo Gallery: People in Marrakech
I’m sure Nicky must have taken most of these photos, having a better eye for capturing people’s character. If one goes back to Marrakech nowadays...
Photo Gallery: Other things we saw!
Nicky was interested in the patterns of the tiles. The Islamic ban on representative art was made up for by the marvellous patterns on walls...
JPL Pasadena: the Huntington-Sheraton
The meeting took place at what was then the Huntington Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, California. Opened in 1914 under the ownership of the railway tycoon...
Disneyland and Watts Towers
Before the Seasat-JASIN meeting, Nicky and I visited my friends in Claremont, just east of Pasadena. They took us to two very different “attractions” in...
Botanic Gardens
I think that photographs from the trip depict two Botanic Gardens. One is the collection of cacti at the Huntington Library situated a few blocks...
