our life in Singapore: wandering the streets of Casablanca!

Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.

The name Casablanca derives from the Arabic name Dar el Beida, which means "White House". When the city was first founded on the remains of a small Berber village, it was the appropriate name, nowadays the city has grown into a large urban city and continues to grow.

The principal city of Morocco and the capital of all but administration, Casablanca is now the largest port of the Maghreb, busier even than Marseille, the city on which it was modelled by the French.

The day we were here it was 20 deg (cel) and just perfect for walking around the streets, we spent quite a bit of time at the Mosque and stopped at a few cafe's for coffee. In Morocco you probably won't see any women sitting at the cafes or open door cafes. There is a reason for this, they believe that only "bad-reputation women" will sit at cafes.

The markets are a great source of entertainment if you are into "people watching" and wandering up and down some of the back lane ways allows you to see how the locals live too.

and a bit of extra info!

Casablanca is the setting of the 1942 film of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman. The film has achieved worldwide popularity since then, having also won three Oscars and been nominated in five additional categories. and
Casablanca is one of the key locations in the 2006 video game Dreamfall, as it is where the primary protagonist of the game, Zoë Castillo, lives.
Casablanca is the setting for several chapters in Doubleshot, a 2000 James Bond novel by Raymond Benson. In the novel, one of the characters mentions that the 1942 film was shot in Hollywood and not on location.
The city is featured in The Mysterious Caravan, Volume 54 in the original Hardy Boys series.
A Night in Casablanca (1946) was the twelfth Marx Brothers' movie. The film stars Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx. It was directed by Archie Mayo and written by Joseph Fields and Roland Kibbee. The film contains the song "Who's Sorry Now?", with music by Ted Snyder and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. It is sung in French by Lisette Verea playing the part of Beatrice Rheiner, and then later sung in English. Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" is played twice, once by Chico on piano as an intro to the "Beer Barrel Polka", and again by Harpo on the harp.