{"id":1129,"date":"2010-05-07T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:25:57","slug":"another-day-in-marrakech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/another-day-in-marrakech\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day in Marrakech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really lazy this morning except for a workout. The gym looks out over the gardens, very pretty. There was a bird hanging around in the gym as well. Quite loud for a small bird.<\/p>\n<p>Spent a bit of time in the new, modern Marrakech and although I typically ignore any suggestions made by the concierge of a hotel, this one at Grand Caf\u00e9 de la Poste,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandcafedelaposte.com\/\">www.grandcafedelaposte.com<\/a>, turned out to be very good. Mostly French folk and some tourists (like us) having their French-based lunch. It was interesting that we preferred the French menus as the translation left much to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>Got some exercise walking back from town (although I went about half-a-kilometre too far, oh, well).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been different hearing the\u00a0<em>muzzein&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>call three times a day (I think), calling the faithful to prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely wrap up dinner outside at Le Marocain at the hotel here, the usual speeches, etc., a few of our colleagues showing up in local garb, djellebas and all.<\/p>\n<p>We head back to London tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1129 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/another-day-in-marrakech\/209_1050\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/209_1050-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1131\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1131'>\n\t\t\t\tGrand Cafe de la Poste\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really lazy this morning except for a workout. The gym looks out over the gardens, very pretty. There was a bird hanging around in the gym as well. Quite loud for a small bird. Spent a bit of time in the new, modern Marrakech and although I typically ignore any suggestions made by the concierge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}