In years (decades?) of yore we had kindred souls here whose historical interests inevitably became combined with travel, including the northern Sahara and eastwards (crusader castles, Roman cities etc.), and much interesting discussion ensued.
I also remember fellow enthusiasts re Morocco, and some of us knew the High Atlas well.
So enormous sympathies are with the Berbers at this time. Hopefully we are not going to see the enormous death tolls of the 1960 Agadir quake.
Which also prompts whether any other of those much valued SOGs (work it out for yourselves) are still around here?

On Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:49:03 AM UTC-4, Surreyman wrote:
> In years (decades?) of yore we had kindred souls here whose historical interests inevitably became combined with travel, including the northern Sahara and eastwards (crusader castles, Roman cities etc.), and much interesting discussion ensued.
> I also remember fellow enthusiasts re Morocco, and some of us knew the High Atlas well.
> So enormous sympathies are with the Berbers at this time. Hopefully we are not going to see the enormous death tolls of the 1960 Agadir quake.
> Which also prompts whether any other of those much valued SOGs (work it out for yourselves) are still around here?

The only consolation about earthquake disasters is that we don't invite them. New homo-induced natural disasters add up to the old kind, like eruptions and earthquakes. Give us time and will screw up plate tectonics too, no doubt.

In my hippie years I spent a summer in Morocco, mostly in Ketama, up in the mountains, in a hash farm. Good times to fill a book. Still, I don't appreciate Islamic culture and never will absent reform.