Rain! How could this happen after such a gorgeous starry evening yesterday? Not heavy but a steady drizzle and enough to send us scurrying for shelter just as we started breakfast on the terrace.
Not that this deterred our painters who duly reassembled on the damp terrace for the first of Ev’s demos for the tour. Although, later, some decided watercolour painting isn’t actually enhanced by real water coming from the sky, so they adjourned to the parlour downstairs in our riad (La Tangerina).
After a lazy lunch under the banyan tree (or at least that’s what I thought it was), there was more painting in some of the alley ways in the Kasbah (old fortress) area of Tangier.
This is where Matisse lived and painted last century and his fame is well known to the locals. One of our artists was painting the façade of a building when a young man approached saying did she know this was exactly the spot where Matisse painted. Oh, said our painter, modestly, “perhaps mine is not as good.” “No,” came the brutally honest response! Laughter all around!
Later we enjoyed mint tea back on “our” terrace for some more painting overlooking the Med.
It amazes me how extremely close we are to Spain — clearly visible across the sea:
Dinner tonight at El Morocco Club, just around the corner. Pulled lamb with dates on the menu — délicieux!
