> > > Street scenes from the Medina: > > http://www.web-options.com/Medina/ > > > > Comments welcome. > > > Great set of shots, Bob. Never been, so to me it looks like the > hollywood (bollywood) sets that try to depict what it's like. Bet it
> doesn't smell like a theater, does it? > Thanks - that's an interesting comment. I arrived in Fez at about 10pm having not eaten or drunk since 7am, after a 9-hour train ride that was held up for a couple of hours by a flash flood. I was then driven in a rickety taxi blaring out Arabic music, and dumped at the main entrance to the Medina, and it was exactly like the experience you see depicted so often in movies, of the hapless Westerner lost in the teeming throng. I've been to far more remote and strange places, but not that was quite so disorienting at first. It quickly became apparent that I had fallen among good people though. Architecturally the place is very much on the lines of Ali Baba, but it is crumbling and falling apart. As a World Heritage Site it receives a lot of money from UNESCO for restoration, and there is a lot of restoration going on. The worry is that the restoration removes the soul of the place and just leaves a clean, Disneyfied version. It's a difficult balance to maintain. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
