I’m just back from the town of Chefchaouen, up in the Rif mountains in Morocco. A stunning town, with just about everything painted blue (harking back to the 1930s when Jewish settlers started painting it – blue being symbolic for sky and heaven. The blue is also rumoured to repel mosquitoes!). Within the maze-like medina are all things crumbly, blue, occasionally rusty, signage and all manner of wooden and metal doors.

I’ve created a tumblr page here. As a taster, here are a few pics.

This was one of many metal plates used for electric / water meters. NIce mix of western and arabic letters, in vivid blue.

I took a walk out of town to the cemetery – many weather-beaten inscriptions on gravestones.

Cute rusty lovehearts on this mini garage

Gas canisters roasting in the midday sun

Fruit boxes with a curious mix of stamped english and arabic

House numbers stamped onto electricity boxes

Great old street signage, in a rare occurrence of yellow and green

Old street signs again, back to faithful blue and white

So many narrow streets with so many interesting shadows

An here’s the rusty old taxi stop