Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Spend Tuesday scrubbing the rust stains off the white paint with a very powerful solution called “Green
Knight”. It is very cold and the wind is strong from the NE so we were secure at our anchor.
Today I’m heading ashore to check out the town. Sounds really interesting and exotic. I’ll try to post some
pictures and updates after I get back.
Later…
I’m sitting in the lobby of a nice little hotel (with WiFi), The Dar Naciria, after having spend the morning
and afternoon in the old city. This is a fabulously exotic tangle of narrow streets and little shops selling
everything: clothes, leather goods, fruit, spices, meats, wood crafts, metal work, cameras, watches,
musical instruments and antiques all with a glad attitude and very friendly air of hospitality!
It’s great to get ashore after that passage, although it is still cold the sun is shining in a watery blue sky.
We had lunch in a restaurant that was probably 15′ wide and 20′ long. The food was fabulous and cheap
and the people walking by were probably the most varied in dress I have ever seen. The traditional male
garb here can best be described as “Jawa Classic” That and the ubiquitous bluejeans are about it for
men but women have an amazing variety of clothes in all colors from traditional, almost burkah like,
gowns to fairly modern outfits.
The kids, well kids are kids and seem to have stepped out of Zellers, which is a bit jarring.
I’ll try to upload some pics.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
Pictures of the passage and my rambles in the old town are here.
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