Category: seaside & lakefronts
Port of Essaouira, Morocco – part 2
Port of Essaouira – part 1 is here. The ocean off Morocco’s Atlantic coast is one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. This post is about human-scale commercial fishing. Try the seminal 1994 collaboration of Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure – Talking Timbuktu – “Diaraby” (track 10). The port of Essaouira is…
Port of Essaouira, Morocco – part 1
Essaouira (الصويرة; in Portuguese: Mogador) is a historical city on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. We spent a couple of days in Essaouira after our trip to the desert. It was nice to see some water after days of sand and rocks. The medina of Essaouira, formerly named Mogador (name originating from the Phoenician word Migdol meaning…
Bregenz, Austria
We passed the city of Bregenz on our way to Lindau, and made it the destination of one of our day trips. Bregenz is the capital of the province of Vorarlberg which borders three countries: Germany(Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg via Lake Constance), Switzerland (Grisons and St. Gallen) and Liechtenstein. Vorarlberg is the westernmost state of Austria. The city sits by the lake at the foot of Pfänder mountain (Der Berg am Bodensee). The…
Lindau, Germany
In May, we went to Lindau with IT. Lindau is a small island in Lake Constance (Bodensee), located near the meeting point of the Austrian, German and Swiss borders and is nestled on the lake in front of Austria’s Pfänder mountain (see later post). We took this aerial photo when flying from Zurich to Kiev after our visit…