Morocco: Baby, you’re the one….

Today I feel a little like Sonny and Cher (when they were still in love, of course). Like Neil Diamond who has somehow roped Shakira into his act. Like Johnny Cash when he finally knew that June Carter was his forever.

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Yep, this morning I’m the small town singer who gets a call from U2 saying they want me on tour as the opening act. “Who, me?” I ask. “Yes, you,” they reply. It appears that all I’ll need is a really cool outfit and a little sparkly eye shadow.

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Why, you wonder? Perhaps because hands have been shaken, papers signed, a humungous deposit put down. The landowner’s promise has been transformed into legal documents of the most official kind. The land – the one with the beautiful olive trees is ours – or almost anyways. No way for the landowner to back out unless he pays an amount equivalent to a year or two’s salary on top of our deposit. We’re one major step closer to our dream house.

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So can you see why our agent (that would be me) thinks our record is finally going gold….. ?

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It’s enough to make me SiiiiiNG while break dancing. I am pure Abba. I feel giddy. I’ve got Coldplay surging through my veins. I feel happy, so, so happy.

Comments

[Anna]

zippidy duda, zippidy yey, my oh my what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine coming our way...

congrats!

[diane]

Chere madame.
Felicitation, so from now when i look at morroco from my bedroom window(from gibraltar) i will be thinking of you as an inspiration as we want as well buy some land in uk and build our own home everyone think we are mad but ye i think it's normal thing to do , think about it in france ( my country)all my friend done it like it's totally normal. But yours will be very interesting to see keep us posted and good luck worst is done .
Best regards
Diane

[John]

Congratulations!

There is nothing quite like having a piece of land to call your own.

The olive trees are cool too; they are one of the many things I'd like to have but don't have the climate to grow.

[Kamal]

Congratulations, sounds a dream come true... Congrats for your anniversary, too.

[Maryam In Marrakesh]

Thank you for all your wonderful notes! I can't tell you how excited we are. Diane, are you Spanish? Kamal are you writing from Morocco? John, I hear that olive trees are very hardy...Maybe one in your back yard somewhere?

[John]

No, no olive trees for me. I've looked into it, and our winters are too cold for them to survive. On the upside, we do have the perfect weather for white peaches.

[Murad]

My ex-boyfriend once remarked I will feel contend the day I can own a piece of land. Growing up in a farming family he felt very close tending to nature and eating its fruits.
All over my house I have paintings and cut outs from magazines of the woods. I feel very close to nature and it helps pick me up when I live a very urban life.
Congragulations for the land of the olive trees. It is in better hands. Here I come .. the land of the Olives .. Pick me up and Let me live in your ever swaying arms.

[Intisar]

Wow! Congratulations!! I am very happy for you! This has been a real journey for you and I'm glad it's turning out. :) I am a new reader, but i am SO thankful that you are writing this blog. My boyfriend is from Marrakech and I am not only in love with him but am in love with the Moroccan culture. I savor every little bit of info I can get on this country.. So chokran bizaff!! You have no idea, how much this blog has the potential to help me with. :)

[Claire]

Congratulations Maryam!! This is so wonderful! How exciting!

[Maryam In Marrakesh]

Wow, I think that your comments are secretly due to your being closet Abba fans. No seriously.

John, your peach trees sound delicious and I am wondering if there is any way I can plant such a treat in my yard - hmmm..will have to look into it.

Murad, I have lived in the city all my life but the olive trees are so beautiful - they beckon to me from my window.

Intisar, so glad you came to visit my little blog! And how very nice to have a boyfriend from such a beautiful city. Where are you based?

Thanks, Claire. I wouldn't have this blog, without your encouragement.

Anna, you are so funny and make me happy every time I read your post.

[diane in gibraltar]

i am not spanish sorry i am a french lady married to a british navy man! who happen to be drafted in gibraltar for 2 years 1/2 ,i not very good at spanish but very into their food......... talking about olive tree we just been to Jaen in (spain of course) and you have to drive there the view is breath taking some many olive tree,so many they are producting 200 thousand tonne of olive oil and it's very nice i do recomend the visit(stay in the parador hotel ,it is a castle on the montagne top of Jaen with 360 degrees view of olive trees.
good luck
diane

[Claire]

Maryam, I get such wanderlust reading your blog (and the comments)!

[Maryam In Marrakesh]

Diane, I absolutely love paradors and we stay in them whenever we can afford to. So glad to meet a fellow olive tree lover.

Claire, I think it is time that you start planning an exotic vacation...

[Intisar]

I'm thrilled that you have this "little blog" :) I love reading it!

I'm based in Chicago and actually hoping to go to Morocco next month.. I'm so so excited!!

[Maryam In Marrakesh]

Intisar! That is so great! Where are you going to be going in Morocco?

[Intisar]

:-D First to Skirat, then going to meet my boyfriend in Casa and we will either stay there or go back to Skirat with my sister's boyfriend ..

[jeremy]

there it’s said that more or less it’s still too male country, is it true? blog.lessno.com/archives/75

[shawee]

I love reading your Blog...
so relaxing... and full of beautiful things...
makes me want to go home with my boyfriend in Morocco...

[rkia]

wow..reading your blog really makes me miss morocco..i'm an america-moroccan..i've been there once and can't wait till i return again considering my dad and siblings are all there

[sharonsacramento]

want to go to morocco!!!!
want to go to morocco!!!!

[jacki janse van rensburg]

yeah, yeah sharonsacramento, i wanna go to morocco too! never been there, but have seen it from spain. vowed to go there one day when i saw it years ago.. now i know where to stay!