789. Morocco Part 16 | Snapshots of Rabat + Modern Art Museum

Last week we visited Rabat's Museum of Modern & Comtemporary Art. It looked really cool from the outside but in reality, there were only 2 exhibitions inside and they were all similar paintings. I still enjoyed it though and for a few dollars' admission per person, I can't say it was a rip off.

A quick update to my previous post on GME: I have since sold *most* of my shares and managed to make a pretty good profit from it all. I will keep the rest as I do believe in the company's future prospects and the big squeeze. Of course I didn't manage to sell at the peak ($483)..although I forced myself to gradually trim my position on the way down (which I am grateful for now lol) as I didn't want to be a bagholder. Now it's sitting at around $90. If Robinhood and the media didn't stop the momentum and start spreading fake news, it would have gone way higher. But when I first bought, I thought that reaching $100 would be its peak/best case scenario. If it drops under my dollar cost average I will buy more for the long term. Another "meme stock" that I think got unfairly dragged down with it is Blackberry (I do not believe in the other ones such as AMC or Nokia) - I bought some maybe a month ago and managed to make 200%+ in unrealized gains..now it dropped back to when I initially bought lol. I believe in the long term prospects of the company as well so I will keep holding for now..

So here are some photos from the modern art museum and our adventures around Rabat! I am really enjoying the city now.

We visited The English Bookshop (which is apparently the only all-English book shop in Morocco). I discovered this book before when I was searching for books set in Morocco..so was happy to find it there! The book shop is very cute. I want to go back to buy more books..even though it's not a good idea for my luggage. We didn't book our next destination yet but we now have an idea of where we want to go. If we do go, there will be a 2 week quarantine so I think I'll do lots of reading in that time heheh.

Also bought some new Adidas clothes..their new NASA collection is pretty cool!

This is a little pet shop. So cute.



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787. Morocco Part 14 | Last Day in Fes

Our time in Fes (6 weeks) has already come to an end. Tomorrow we are leaving for Rabat. I will really miss it here - mainly our house, housekeeper, cat and our daily routine. I've never stayed in such a large and beautiful place on vacation before and never had a housekeeper preparing a delicious breakfast every morning and meals!

These two photos on the top and bottom were taken today. It's a street directly connected to ours that we walk through pretty much every time we go out. It's so beautiful and I didn't even think to take photos of it until our last day lol. There is a lot of street art like this around the Fes medina.

Here are some final photos I will post of the medina, during our explorations with our guide from a few weeks ago.

I know there's Chinese restaurants literally everywhere. I was still amused to see one in the Fes medina lol.

I posted this photo on my Instagram comparing it with another photo taken from the exact same spot in a pre-covid time. Under normal circumstances when there are tourists in Fes, the walls of this street would be fully covered in little souvenirs. Now it's completely empty.

They were all clapping and singing around these two street performers. I wanted to take a video but wasn't able to until..

We went to this little shop for mint tea and the two performers came in. I guess it was the end of their work day as they sat for tea and board games after that. Not with us though lol.



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786. Morocco Part 13 | Ceramics and Rug Shopping

Fes is the capital of arts and culture in Morocco, and it's easy to see why. I really love their style of decor here. It's all very colourful, a bit whimsical and primarily handmade. Even the buildings in the medina and little alleyways have a lot of paintings.

My favourite souvenirs from here are the ceramics. The rugs are also very beautiful. If I was in the market for one I would definitely want to get it here. I prefer their style to Persian rugs which I don't really like to be honest. The Moroccan ones are more modern (but timeless) with more colours and images.

We visited this rug store set inside a huge riad. Their rooms were piled up with rugs of all sizes. I think there must have been tens of thousands. The entire riad was covered in mosaics. It was all very beautiful and detailed.

We were also brought to the rooftop to see the view

We also visited this ceramics factory. This man is preparing the clay.

Artisans at work.

Every piece of the mosaics are made by hand. They are used for the tables behind or walls and floors. I can't imagine how many hours are spent to make one table (or to cover an entire riad).

Half finished. I assume they go through different layers of paint.

I love/wanted to buy EVERYTHING!!

Finished pieces

In the end, we ended up buying these (+ 1 other thing not shown in the picture). It took me quite a long time to choose and narrow down what I wanted, and also to haggle down the price lol. The tajine is for cooking with and a gift for my mom. It's pretty heavy. I wonder why tajines are not more popular worldwide. I really love them. The factory shipped everything back to Toronto for us as there's no way we could lug these around in our suitcases lol.

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