5 Blogs That Know Fez ©
5 Blogs That Know Fez

5 Blogs That Know Fez

A blog that has posted from the medina since 2005, a food writer with a house in Fez el-Bali, and the street-food guide you want in your pocket

Fez is the one Moroccan city that resists being done in a day, and the writing about it splits neatly into people who have spent real time inside the medina and people who have not. These five are the first kind. Between them: the tanneries and what they actually smell like, the artisans working the same trades in the same lanes, the Sacred Music Festival, mlaoui from a neighbourhood vendor at seven in the morning, and how not to get comprehensively lost.

The View from Fez has been posting since 2005 and is still the best English-language blog in Morocco. Read it for a week before you go and you'll arrive knowing what's on.

Further Reading

5 Blogs That Know Fez

  1. 01 The View from Fez riadzany.blogspot.com · Sandy McCutcheon Running since 2005 and still the best English-language blog in Morocco: daily posts on festivals, artisans, politics and the medina's endless small dramas.
  2. 02 Tips and Advice for Planning a Trip to Fez, Morocco marocmama.com · Amanda Mouttaki Moroccan food written from inside a Moroccan family — recipes, Ramadan, and what to order. Marrakech-based, but the food knowledge travels north.
  3. 03 Anita's Feast anitasfeast.com · Anita Breland She keeps a house in Fez el-Bali and writes about eating there: the wild honey, the neighbourhood mlaoui vendor, the home cooks' unwritten recipes.
  4. 04 Wandering Everywhere wandering-everywhere.com · Amy Her Fez medina street-food guide is the kind of thing you want in your pocket — named stalls, what to order, what it should cost.
  5. 05 Top Things to See and Do in Fez, Morocco journeybeyondtravel.com The blog of a Morocco tour operator, but written by real writers — Lucas Peters authored the Moon Morocco guidebook — and the Fez medina pieces stand on their own.

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