Michael Hawkins is an artist from New Zealand who has a history of live action painting collaborations with musicians. Following our unlikely meeting in the Douoro valley in Portugal we have begun to work together, and will be staging a series of public performances under the assumed stage names ‘The Kiwi and the Banana’. The [...]
The Road to Morocco: part six
The final chapter…The scent of Europe The moment we arrived in Tangiers it seemed as if we had already left Morocco. Gone were the stylized Arabic houses with the rooftop oases, and the curling alleyways winding mysteriously into populated labyrinths…instead we saw skyscrapers and t-shirts and people who looked like us..the borderline of the West [...]
The Road to Morocco: part five
The Dash North- 4 days to the Spanish coast After two days of rest and recovery and some musical evenings at our hosts establishment we broke camp and headed for the city. Buoyed up with confidence we struck a shameless and outrageously conspicuous profile in Marrakesh train station as we stumped down the platform in [...]
The Road to Morocco: part four
Day 4 -? (what is time on a mountain) The High Atlas Mountains It is in the rural areas of a country where a traveller faces his most real encounters with the people of the land he is exploring, and for us Morocco was no exception. We left the madness of Marrakesh and drove due [...]