Misfat al Abriyeen

Misfat Al Abriyeen is a tiny hill village, high in the Hajar Mountains, which is located in Wilayt Al Hamra in A’Dakhiliyah Region. It is one of the oldest and prettiest settlements in Oman located approximately 1000 meters above sea level.  Mountain springs provide water for verdant agricultural terraces growing dates and bananas. This land of shade and […]

Charity Shops Shrewsbury

Are you trying to minimise our impact on Planet Earth, reduce our usage of plastic, packaging, energy and water?  We are.  It’s not always easy – but one of the simplest things we can all do is to reuse things that other people have bought new and then discarded.  This saves all the manufacturing and […]

Moroccan Bath – My experience of Hammam Mouassine in Marrakech

  Moroccan Bath – Moroccan Hammam I had always wondered about the Moroccan bath. I had experienced all kinds of fancy scrub treatments in Vietnam, Thailand and hammam spa in Oman. I had been in saunas and steam rooms.  But I had never been in a traditional Moroccan hammam steam bath. So in Morocco, I […]

Things to do in Rabat

Alongside Fez, Marrakesh, and Meknes, Rabat is one of the four royal cities of Morocco and is also its capital. The name means a “Fortified Place” and Rabat lives up to this with its spectacular ramparts. We spent a week there, finding and trying all that this Moroccan city has to offer, and if you are […]