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Mystic Magic Performance!

Editor — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:01:09 +0000

Magical and Mindblowing

Two Mentalists & Magicians, Othman and Osama, are in Fes! Their next scheduled performance is at Salon Empereur.

If you want to catch this incredible act, organized by Fes’ very own cultural excavator – Culture Vultures www.culture-vultures.org — come on in to Café Clock for your ticket straight away. Tickets are priced at 149 DH.

Mystic Magic

‘Tselim’ at Salon Empereur, Friday 7th May

7.p.m

Don’t miss it, it will blow your mind.!!

Comings and Goings

Editor — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:06:50 +0000

People come and go through Fes, Morocco every week and many of these interesting folks pass a portion of their visit in Café Clock.

Let’s see, last week there was an intrepid couple on an ‘anti-clockwise’ motorcycle tour around the Mediterranean. Taking time to rest from the bone-jarring trip, Flora and Mathew stopped by The Clock for sustenance and advice on where to get their gloves patched up before hitting the road once more. You can check out their progress at (www.lonebiker.net)

Then there was a group of high school students from a Quaker college preparatory school called Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland. (www.ssfs.org). This lively group of students packed the Red Room one evening and whiled away the hours with local musicians and mint tea. They filled up on camel burgers and fries the next day before continuing their journey.

A few days earlier, there was the well-turned out group of bridge players from Sitges, Spain here for a tournament at Palais Jamai, as well as a group of young women stationed in Fes for a month at the American Fondouk – a charitable veterinary hospital that has been doing great work here in Fes ever since 1927.

American Fondouk in Fes

www.mspca.org/americanfondouk .

Motorcyclists, Quakers, veterinarians and bridge players alike find common ground at Café Clock. Every day an unbelievable assortment of people wind their way down the alley of Derb El Magana and into our cross cultural café where they find a welcoming and comfortable place to commune and rejuvenate.

So sit back, sip your tea, enjoy your first camel burger and check your email. In no time at all you’ll find the world and all its diversity passing right before your eyes.

The Ball @ The Clock

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:22:17 +0000

Last week a much autographed football arrived in Cafe Clock. It was in the care of Christian, Andrew and Zoe who are on an incredible journey. Like the olympic torch this football is travelling from the birthplace of its beginnings – Battersea Park in London – to the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup which commences in South Africa in june. At time of writing they have 98 days to reach their destination. Below are excerpts from their blog.

Press the link below for more stories of their epic quest:

http://theball.tv/2010/blog/2010/03/01/behind-the-scenes-cafe-clock/

Our first internet café on the African continent turned out to be one of the most beautiful cafés we could hope to have spent time in: the remarkable Café Clock in the medina in Fez.

Walk a short way from the medina’s Bab Boujloud — the “Blue Gate” — through the aptly named “butchers’ guzzar” presided over by the “camel” shown in a previous post, turn left into the narrowest of alleyways, then left again into a small doorway… and emerge into what seems to be a palace.

Founded three years ago by Mike, an Englishman fed up with the drudgery of daily life in London, Café Clock now seems to be an essential stop for travellers in Fez. Mike has a keen nose for the best of Moroccan cooking and a finely tuned ear for the tales of those who pass through his establishment.

Thanks for your hospitality, your fantastic breakfast and your broadband. We’d have been struggling to keep up without all three. Café Clock has certainly left its mark on The Ball…