Oct-over? Already?

After a week or so of settling into the new apartment, it feels like Cath and I were here hardly at all during the last two.

Our extra-Fes excursions have been three-fold: to the nearby town of Azrou, to the Sahara Desert and to the small cities of Tetouan and Chefchaouen up north. Although the latter was an independent trip undertaken by just Cath and myself, the first two were organized for larger groups; together, I think that the trips encompass two rather distinct styles of travel.

Welcome to Fes. Make yourself at home. Part III: The ville nouvelle and finding an apartment

A common practice in speaking or writing about Fes is to accord chronological distinctions to its geographical ones. This description, for example, comes from Lonely Planet: "Traveling from the ville nouvelle to Fes el-Bali [the medina] is like literally stepping back in time." Or, several pages prior: "... for all the romance of medina life to visitors, many residents have been happy to sell up to foreigners to swap their sometimes medieval living conditions for a modern apartment in the ville nouvelle." In short: medina - medieval; ville nouvelle - modern.

Thinking this way is unfair.