We spent a day visiting nearby volubilis, a partially restored ruined roman city about an hour from fes, as well as meknes, like fes, an ex capital of morocco. Morocco has had a number of different ruling dynasties, and many of them saw the need to establish new capitals. The nesting storks at Volubilis and the lovely country setting made it the more interesting of the two places.
Spent the next day wandering around the medina on our own. Saw the potteries, belching black smoke, where tile mosaics, pottery and ceramics get made, and got comprehensively lost in the medina. Somehow I ended up the owner of a Berber sword and Ranee the owner of a couple of necklesses - I'm not entirely sure how that happened but there were some fast talking medina inhabitants involved
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