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Beware the bus station hustlers !
Everytime I arrive by bus at Essaouira Gare Routiere, Avenue Deuxieme Mars (the main bus station), the same old scenario unfolds.......
The exit doors, especially the rear one are beseiged by both the wheelbarrow touts and the key-waving apartment rental ones.
In comparison with Marrakesh, these are "low level " touts, but can still be irritating to dismiss after a tiring bumpy bus ride over the stone desert on some of the old rickety buses. I always just ignore their presence and exit the main gate, turn right and follow the street which eventually leads to the main Medina gate, Bab Doukalla. The wheelbarrow touts want to transport tourists' luggage down through the Medina to whatever hotel is contemplated or pre-booked, because there is no motorised traffic permitted in the narrow streets, but to avoid this potentially rip-off situation, small blue taxis park up close to the bus station, activated by "bush telegraph" whenever a bus is spotted arriving at the bus station. These taxis can provide transport (for a pre-agreed price, not more than Dh20) to the taxi rank at Bab Sb`aa, just outside the Medina at Rue du Caire, from where it's only a short walk to the centre and the port at Place Moulay Hassan.
The apartment rental touts are rather more insidious, I have heard reliable anecdotal evidence that keys will be duplicated, so there will be no total security in any of these properties, personally I always stay in a hotel, much safer..........
Post script......the bus in the photo bears the logo " amazing trip "..........this one is typical of the many private companies' fleet, which I never travel on nowadays, with bald tyres and manic drivers, my nerves can't handle the way they drive on the dangerous mountain roads, I always use CTM, but Supratours are also safe.
The "amazing trip" might not be the safe one you expected !
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Some Hassle
When I told our housemaster that I was going to Essaouira he proclaimed how different the city was compared to Marrakech. He told me it was very "pacifique". Most travel reports I read said the same thing: Essaouira is a world away from Marrakech and there's almost no hassle. Well that's not entirely true.
In fact the first day I arrived I experienced more hassle than three days in Marrakech. First we were surrounded at the bus stop. Then on our first walk down the promenade we were approached by beggars, craft merchants, shoe shiners and purveyors of sunglasses - and they didn't want to take no for an answer. It wasn't quite the relaxing evening I'd been hoping for.
Once we settled in and stopped looking like the newly arrived the hassle seemed to vanish. The medina was no trouble at all and the merchants there were polite and restrained. Everyone in Essaouira is used to tourists, and the locals seem genuinely friendly and open to foreigners and their strange ways.
Travel with Small Kids
Essaouira is far better developed than Marrakech and the medina was pretty easy to navigate with a pram. The pavements along the beach area also very good, except on a stretch where they are building a new promenade. But by the time that's finished it will be smooth pavements from the top of the beach to the bottom. The traffic is also much lighter and less aggressive, making crossing the road a lot easier - one driver even stopped for us at a zebra crossing!
Essaouira has a pleasant micro-climate that averages around the mid-20s all year. The stiff wind that often blows in from the Atlantic has an additional cooling effect. Just because it is cooler than elsewhere in the region, that doesn't mean the sun isn't shining, and this far south it's very strong.
In winter there's the additional problem of the sun being low on the horizon. That means you'll get burned in places that don't usually see the sun (especially on the face) and you'll spend a lot of time shading your eyes from the sun. So bring sunglasses, and if you are sensitive to the sun expect to get burned even in winter.
The wind can be very strong and can have a significant cooling effect, meaning you might want to wear a jacket even when the temperature is above 20 degrees. The wind can also catch the sand on the beach and deposit it in your eye, so again sunglasses would be useful. You can understand now why there are so many sunglasses salesmen around the beach.
I found cash was generally preferred in Essaouira, but some places took credit cards. There were several ATMs from where I could draw my money from abroad, two of which were on the street leading out from Bab Sbaa, at the end of the beach nearest the medina. Basically find the clock tower and walk out the gate from there towards the beach.
What to Wear
On the beaches of Essaouira the local men strip down to their shorts and play football, the local women take off their shoes. It is a pretty conservative society, but they are used to tourists wearing little on the beach. It's probably best not to wander around the town in a bikini, though.
Essaouira isn't known for its crime, but any beach can be a tempting place for a casual criminal. Leaving your belongings behind on the sand is obviously asking for trouble, but also be careful walking by yourself or in quieter areas, especially at night or near dark. The medina, and the stretch of beach going south is the busiest and safest.
Most of the criminals probably come from outside, and the big events like the Gnaoua festival attracts a lot of them with reports of crime rising during that time. So be extra vigilant when the crowds are in town.
Wash your hands all the time, especially before eating. Take some antibacterial wipes with you, or carry an antibacterial hand gel.
Morocco is a developing country and many people end up with some kind of stomach problem here, although usually it's nothing more than upset stomach. Having said that our family took different approaches to the food, my wife eating whatever she wanted, me taking the ultra paranoid approach, and my son somewhere safely in between. None of us got sick. The only rule we did follow was no fish (especially shellfish), only drinking bottled water, and doing a bit of research on any restaurant we ate at (preferring ones that the locals eat at).
The rule they usually advise is: cook it, peel it or bin it. I started the holiday with the idea that if it's burned it can't hurt me - nuke it basically. But by the end of the trip I relaxed and was even eating salad. For the ultra cautious you should also avoid poultry products, including chicken and especially eggs, unless they are thoroughly cooked, I would never eat fish, and nearly every food poisoning account I read about in Morocco involved fish or shellfish. Fish is obviously a very popular dish in this seaside town, so you might not want to miss out, so research your restaurants carefully.
With tap water you should always boil it and check the bottled water to make sure it hasn't already been opened. Sometimes you can find your bottled refilled with tap water. Many people also brush their teeth in bottled water, and the ultra paranoid will keep water out of their mouth in the shower too. The problem with water is that even if it is good and clean, there can still be bacteria in it that you aren't used to and will give you a stomach upset. So if you aren't planning on staying for more than a holiday there's not much need to get your stomach used to the water.
My advice is to play it as safe as you feel comfortable, but don't let the fear of food poisoning ruin your holiday. Think about what you are going to eat - don't let yourself miss out on something amazing because it's a bit of a risk, but also why risk it for something that isn't all that special?
Opening Times
It's a small, provincial town and despite the tourist crowds opening times can be problematic. In particular there are few restaurants open all day, and you can find yourself struggling to find your restaurant of choice. There are always some snacks, shops and touristy pizza places open, but most of the best restaurants seemed to shut at 2pm and stay closed until at least 7pm.
Flash flooding
Travellers of a certain age may remember guitarist Jimi Hendrix and his brief association with Essaouira and the village of Diabat, two kilometres south of the town.
In years gone by, direct access to the village and its small memorabilia cafe, avoiding a long detour by road, was by crossing the river Ksob over stepping stones, but in the wet season, the normally placid river became a wild torrent, and there were a number of fatalities when villagers were caught unawares by flash floods and swept out to sea and drowned.
The Moroccan government has now invested millions of dirhams in construction works to redirect the accumulation of flood water into giant relief basins, and a new road bridge now connects to the village.
However, many tourists prefer to walk along the beach to Diabat, crossing the river at its estuary into the sea. This can be safe at times when rainfall is minimal and the river is a narrow shallow stream, but it can rapidly turn into a deadly raging torrent, so if a thunderstorm seems imminent crossing by the new road bridge is advisable.
Update May 2013.......The new road connecting Essaouira to Diabat across the road bridge is still unsurfaced over one year later, the stones and gravel underfoot for pedestrians makes walking painful and unpleasant, motorised traffic disregards the 'drive on the right side' rule, as vehicles weave from side to side, attempting to avoid large stones protruding from the carriageway, for how much longer before tarmac is laid is anybody's guess!
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Flood defences, Diabat, Essaouira.
A recently-erected "panneau" at the new access road bridge at Diabat displays details of the government investment on flood defences.
I might just be an old cynic, but from long experience of corruption in Morocco, my immediate reaction was to ponder how much of the released capital finance would find its way into the offshore bank accounts of corrupt government officials..........
On the day I visited the excavations for the giant relief basins, most of the workers and their machinery were enjoying a very long siesta, something just didn't seem right!
Update May 2013......Although most of the flood defence works have been completed, some are only partially complete, despite an optimistic assertion on the main notice board that the duration of works ( delai d'execution) was anticipated to be ten months, and once again, this year, I noticed the same long afternoon siesta in the hot sun being enjoyed by the workforce. It appears the ten month estimate by Moroccan civil engineering standards was only a guess!
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Beware of street excavations.....
Step out of the taxi and fall down the evil hole!..................
These pictures were recently taken at the taxi rank, Place Orson Welles, Essaouira, two large holes had been dug out on the pavement adjacent to the taxi rank and then abandoned without any safety considerations for pedestrians. This problem is widespread throughout Morocco, and although it may not be too much of a danger for travellers during the long daylight summer, the shorter winter days and long dark evenings would present danger, especially if the street overhead lighting was dim or, as is often the case, non-existent during unexpected lighting failures, caused by corroded underground and overhead power cables.
I always make sure I pack a reliable pocket torch when walking around at night, some of these holes are deep, with sharp pieces of rusty steel reinforcement rods poking upwards, waiting to skewer the unwary!
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Sewage mist from the sea.
I noticed another warning and photograph of a mysterious sea mist causing stomach upsets in travellers and tourists in Essaouira. I've never seen this myself, on my many holidays in the town, but heard rumours that a main sewage pipe leading out to the sea was suspected of being the cause, if the wind was blowing onshore, but in April this year, all the Medina streets were being excavated to lay new waste water pipes, a major engineering development, and there was a large sign outside Bab Doukalla gate, apologising for the inconvenience, while the works were in progress.
Large diameter concrete pipes were diverting the waste water north beyond the town limits to a new treatment facility "Station d'Epuration" one kilometre further north along a piste from the new police station at the top of Avenue al Aquaba. The concrete pipes were laid along the side of the piste with inspection tanks at regular intervals, and at the Station the waste water was collected in open-air reservoirs, for purification and detoxification, before disposal, I think into the sea, although the pipes must have been underground, I couldn't see the exact location.
I spent a lot of time on this north beach, sunbathing, and didn't notice any unpleasant smell, so the new engineering works must have been effective........
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Beware of juvenile thieves!
Eleven years ago, I was living in Essaouira, and my favourite place to relax and soak up the sun was the beautiful deserted north beach, which stretches as far as the eye can see, and beyond.......
One day, I was returning from the beach, and close to the access road, Avenue al Aquaba, a young boy approached me and asked for one dirham, so I rummaged in my jeans pocket, extracted a coin and handed it to him. Suddenly, another four boys appeared from behind some rocks and demanded money, I started to walk away but they surrounded me, and each taking turns, tried to snatch at my pockets, intent on robbing me. I had to produce my lock-blade pocket knife and threaten them, this had the effect of backing them nervously off at a distance, but did not disperse them.
Fortunately, a couple of local fishermen appeared over a rocky outcrop and shouted at the boys which immediately frightened them off, and they ran away. I thanked the fishermen and quickly made my escape.
I discovered later that these boys were street urchins from the peripheral bidonvilles (shanty towns) at Casablanca, their families recently resettled in the new housing estate, Lotissement Skala adjacent to the beach, while the slums were being demolished.
Ironically, at this exact location today stands a new police station, occupied by the khaki-uniformed para-military police.
After the experience of this unpleasant incident, which could easily have turned ugly, because of my determination not to be robbed, I now travel with a long walking stick, and only carry enough small change to buy an ice cream and cold drink in the supermarket, Aswak Essalam, beside the police station, but I still feel comfortable with my utility knife, which is only used to open tins of tuna fish and fruit.
This warning could also apply to almost any locality in Morocco, the European financial disaster has resulted in a significant drop in tourist numbers, essential to many local economies, and the signs of deprivation and desperation are evident everywhere.........
Take care,
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Beware of the old fish!
Essaouira is a fishing port, and when the fishing boats have completed their daily sorties far out into the ocean, the catches are eagerly sought by restauranteurs and local merchants, buying the quality fish on the quayside................sole, cod, lobsters, prawns, sardines or anything else the boats have trawled up (even large beautiful shells, sold as decorative objects.)
However, the weather can be unpredictable, and sometimes the fishermen are reluctant to sail if there is a storm warning. This means no fresh fish is available, but some restaurants sell old stock to diners, heavily disguised by overcooking and dressed with herbs and maybe a "special house sauce", enthusiastically presented by waiters with disarming smiles.
Travellers with delicate stomachs beware, the fish itself will taste like rubber, and may or may not cause illness, Moroccans don't generally believe in freezing foods, preferring to buy fresh, on a daily basis in the souks.
Fortunately my stomach is accustomed to dodgy food and I never suffer gastric enteritis, but not everyone will be so lucky.
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Hi,windy city,get the spelling right,especially as you live in Essaouira! I was at the festival for 5 days,it was wonderful,and yes you will get incidents at festivals,but Essaouira is SAFE compared to the festivals worldwide.
After all your comments,why visit Essaouira?
There are probably a thousand and one comments I could raise about Glasgow :)
Hello Agiou and welcome to VT. It is one thing to defend a destination you know and like and not unusual to disagree with the opinions of other VT members who have shared their personal opinions about it. Being rude to fellow members has a low toleraance rating on VT. Hope you will share your own views in the pages and Reviews you write on here.
i was very interested in all the warnings, places of interests, insight opinions! And nothing can make me change my mind of visiting Essaouira! But I am still interested in finding out the more I can about a place that is , to me, a very faraway and unknown culture!
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Wow, this thing may actually happen.
WOW IS RIGHT! I never imagined him to be nostalgic for Ghostbusters. More than nostalgic but enthusiastic about doing another one. With that being the case he NEEDS to be a central character in the film. I have no problem with new Ghostbusters. But it would be a waste of Bill Murray to have him in the film and not use him to the fullest.
I could envision that Venkman used his involvement with the Ghostbusters to be become a full out celebrity. After the events of Ghostbusters II Ray,Egon, and Winston did franchise the business. Peter milks his connection and continues to collect a paycheck. But has no interest in ghostbusting. But a new generation of Ghostbusters perceive him as an expert on the supernatural and a heroic figure. When the main crisis of the plot happens these new guys demand that their hero return to active duty. Ray and Egon try to lower their expectations. There could be some conflict when they meet the real Peter Venkman.
All of this of course is informed by real life. How Ghostbusters made Bill Murray an icon to a generation. But he long has had ambivalence towards it. But we would see Venkman, like Murray himself, come to embrace it.
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The Marketplace of Ideas
What's wrong with the higher education system in the US and how can we fix it?
The structure of the American university has long been a subject of contention, and now is no exception, especially given the current economic climate. Last year, Mark Taylor called for an end to tenure and traditional disciplines in The New York Times op-ed, "End of the University as We Know It," and William Pannapacker's column, "Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go," was among the most viewed links on the Chronicle of Higher Education's website.
If the system looks broken – not just to academics or those fighting the culture wars, but to anyone invested in the idea of a liberal arts education – then fixing it requires an understanding of how the American university came to be in its current state.
This emphasis on historical perspective as a first step to reform distinguishes Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. Located somewhere between Gerald Graff's "Professing Literature," which takes the history of literary studies as its focus, and more polemical calls for reform like Taylor's, Menand approaches his subject by identifying four widespread problems in academia, tracing them back to their roots, and offering ways to move beyond them.
These include the trend of "interdisciplinarity," the ubiquitous center-left politics of faculty, the identity crisis of the humanities, and the all-too-contentious question of what should constitute a general education program. (Menand was on the committee that recently revamped the curriculum at Harvard University and the book is dedicated to his fellow members.) In excavating the origins of these trends, Menand – whose discipline is English, but who won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for "The Metaphysical Club," his outstanding intellectual history of modern America following the Civil War – shows how slippery knowledge and its production can be.
"[F]ew institutions are so conservative as the universities about their own affairs while their members are so liberal about the affairs of others," Clark Kerr, a chancellor of the University of California, noted in the early '60s. Menand's reference to Kerr is a keynote for his study, which shows a keen eye for the paradoxes of university life. The debates on general education and the snail's-pace process of redesigning it, Menand observes, have "been compared to a play by Samuel Beckett, but the comparison is inapt. Beckett's plays are short." Instead, Menand's analogy is to psychoanalysis: "interminable, repetitive, and inconclusive." Along the same vein, he notes the circular logic of great books programs (we read them because they're great and they're great because we read them).
Menand is renowned as a writer with a cool tone and a keen wit (witness his description of Sputnik as having "the size and lethal potential of a beach ball"). These qualities, and the book's humanitarian yet practical underpinnings, make it a compelling read.
The history he relates is absorbing, too, serving as a reminder that academia has been an arena interwoven with political agendas and anxieties since the Civil War. General education, for instance, was conceived of during the two World Wars, spurred by a perceived need for cultural unification and civic education among American youth. Columbia's first general education course, titled "War Aims," was created at the request of the Army for the Student Army Training Corps, a forerunner of ROTC. A humanities component was adopted later, prompted by the xenophobia of one professor whose anxiety about the increasing enrollment of Jewish immigrants led him to propose a required class in "great Anglo-Saxon writers."
Recounting the circumstances that led Harvard's president, Charles Eliot, to establish a liberal arts degree as a prerequisite for professional degrees like law or medicine, Menand calls into question this divide that has become naturalized in higher education. Increased mixing of theoretical knowledge with practical application would serve both students and faculty well, he suggests, something many liberal arts professors have shied away from, much to the detriment of their own programs. The percentage of students pursuing degrees in math has fallen by about half since 1971, and the same is true for English.
Another striking statistic is the fact that 47 percent of college teaching is done by part-time faculty – though "part time" is a misnomer, since they often carry a full-time load – who are paid a fraction of a tenure-track salary and nowhere near a living wage. By explaining the conditions (unlikely to reverse) that have sent the academic marketplace into a long decline, Menand exposes the illogic of the current system, which has produced a glut of overtrained, underemployed PhDs. Menand rightly recognizes this as a species of institutionalized exploitation, only the first on a list of university practices in need of deep reform.
Elizabeth Toohey is an English professor at Principia College in Elsah, Ill., where she specializes in postwar American culture.


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The state's only Republican in Congress is a charter member of the House tea party caucus. Yet he boasts that he's personally directed more than half a billion dollars in earmarked federal spending, much of it to his district, which sprawls from the banks of the Susquehanna in the east to the West Virginia border.


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Though it stars two best friends goofing off in front of a webcam in a bedroom, "The Miley and Mandy Show" is not exactly your typical YouTube channel. And not just because it stars the country's highest-earning teen celeb , Miley Cyrus, and Mandy Jiroux, Miley's backup dancer on the Best of Both Worlds Tour. Their latest video, a high-flying dance video set to Madonna's "4 Minutes," appears to have prompted a YouTube response from the Material Girl herself.
The "Hannah Montana" star and her friend have been uploading a series of videos to the Web for the past two months, but none has garnered as much attention as last week's, which has received over a million hits since it was uploaded on Sunday.
In their new installment, the M&M Cru with a U — a name the pair came up with for the video — fight ninjas and take part in a well-choreographed dance battle with the crew from "Step Up 2: The Streets," which includes the film's director, John Chu, star Adam Sevani, and "Step Up" star Channing Tatum. There's even a cameo by Cyrus' grandmother.
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HOUSTON (AP) -- Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady are finally healthy
and the Houston Rockets are starting to resemble the team they were
expected to be this season.
McGrady scored 36 points and Yao added 24 points and 14 rebounds
to lead the Rockets to a 100-77 win over the Seattle SuperSonics on
Friday night.
"We had great intensity from the start of the game," McGrady
said. "If we consistently do that, we'll be all right."
McGrady topped 30 points for the fifth time since missing five
games with back spasms. Yao went 9-for-19 and blocked two shots in
his third game since a 21-game layoff following toe surgery.
The Rockets improved to 11-6 when their All-Star duo plays
"It starts always with our two best guys and their energy
level," Houston coach Jeff Van Gundy said. "McGrady obviously was
very efficient tonight. Yao is a long way away from being in the
type of shape he was in prior to his injury. But that he is in as
good of shape as he is in is a direct result of his incredible
McGrady also grabbed nine rebounds as the Rockets improved to
6-15 at home and won back-to-back games at the Toyota Center for
the first time this season. Houston beat Milwaukee 86-84 on
Van Gundy ranked Friday's performance as the Rockets' best at
home all season.
"It's our first home game that I can say we played well from
start to finish," he said. "Hopefully, that's the start of
Ray Allen scored 23 points and Rashard Lewis added 21 for
Seattle, which committed 20 turnovers and got outrebounded 50-40.
"It was a tough night," said Seattle coach Bob Hill. "We
stunk it up."
The game opened a four-game road trip for Seattle, which
continues on Saturday in Dallas.
"It's disappointing to start this road trip this way,
especially to a team we thought we could beat," Lewis said. "We
only have four games on this trip and I thought we gave this one
McGrady had a quiet first quarter, going 3-for-7 for seven
points. He sat out the first five minutes of the second, then
scored seven points during an 11-4 run that gave Houston a 46-39
McGrady finished with 16 points in the first half, helping the
Rockets take a 48-43 lead. Houston coughed up three turnovers early
in the third quarter and the Sonics pulled within 50-49.
McGrady then scored nine straight points on a layup, two
mid-range jumpers and a 3-pointer from the wing.
"I wanted to come out in the third quarter and really impose my
will on this game," McGrady said.
He made a bad pass that led to a Sonics' fast break, but swished
a 3-pointer from the top of the key a minute later to restore
Houston's double-digit lead.
McGrady went 4-of-7 from 3-point range.
"He got hot and when his shots start to fall, he's not going to
miss many," Lewis said of McGrady.
Rookie Luther Head beat the third-quarter buzzer with a running
30-footer to give the Rockets a 73-57 lead heading to the fourth.
McGrady made sure it lasted. He swished a 3-pointer from the top
of the key 15 seconds into the quarter and sank another one with
10:35 left. He confidently nodded as he trotted down the court
after the second basket, which put the Rockets up 81-57.
"Defensively, we weren't that bad," Allen said, "but McGrady
started hitting some shots to take them to the next level."
Yao, meanwhile, missed seven of his first 10 shots, but finished
strong, hitting all five of his attempts in the final quarter. Yao
underwent surgery on Dec. 19 to remove an infection from his left
big toe and is apparently still not fully healed.
After the game, he dunked his left foot in a bucket of ice,
pulled it out and winced as he pulled on a sock.
"He's got a level of dedication to his profession that very few
have," Van Gundy said.
The Sonics, allowing an NBA-worst 107 points per game, gave up
100 points for the fifth straight game.
"I feel like we weren't playing hard," said Lewis, who went to
high school in Houston. "We were just kind of going through the
^Notes:@ McGrady reached 30 points for the 14th time this season and
the second time in Houston's last three home games. ... Rockets G
Jon Barry sat out for the 14th consecutive game with a right calf
strain. ... Seattle has only four home games in February. Friday's
game is the first of 10 on the road for the Sonics this month. ...
Members of the Memphis basketball team attended the game. The
third-ranked Tigers play Rice on Saturday.


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2 large egg whites
1 cup 1 percent milk
1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Pinch of table salt
8 slices whole-wheat bread, lightly toasted
3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
1. Heat the oven to 350 F.
2. In a blender or food processor, combine the raspberries with 2½ tablespoons of the sugar. Purée, then pour through a mesh strainer. Discard the seeds and set aside the sauce.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs and egg whites. Add the milk, vanilla, salt and remaining 1½ tablespoons of sugar. Whisk until well combined.
4. Coat a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium. Dip two slices of the bread in the egg mixture until well soaked. Place the soaked slices in the skillet and sprinkle each with a quarter of the chocolate. Dip another two slices of bread in the egg mixture, then set them on top of the chocolate, pressing gently but firmly so the pieces adhere.
5. Cook for three minutes, then carefully flip and cook for another three minutes. Transfer to a rimmed baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining bread and chocolate, coating the pan with additional cooking spray. When all of the stuffed French toast has been cooked in the skillet and transferred to the baking sheet, bake in the oven for 10 minutes, or until cooked through.
6. Cut each portion in half on the diagonal, drizzle with some of the raspberry sauce and garnish with additional raspberries.
Nutrition information per serving: 380 calories; 130 calories from fat (34 percent of total calories); 14 g fat (6 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 95 mg cholesterol; 54 g carbohydrate; 9 g fiber; 26 g sugar; 17 g protein; 400 mg sodium.
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Blacksmithing conjures up images of hot, heavy work carried out by burly bearded Britons ages ago; not much to do with today's world you might say. But take a closer look around you, and you'll be amazed at the amount of ironwork you can see – the hinges holding open the door, the hook hanging up your coat, the ornate railings you pass by every day. You may not know it, but blacksmiths created the very nails that hold the modern world together.
In its purest form, the craft consists of shaping metal using heat, a hammer and anvil. "You're basically mucking around with its atomic structure," says Aaron Petersen, a blacksmith, sculptor and university lecturer. On a hot Saturday in an even hotter forge in west Wales, he is teaching me the right way to pound the hell out of a piece of steel.
"When the metal is heated, the molecules loosen so it's easier to bend; a bit like cooking," says Petersen. But this is no ordinary kitchen: the Petersen family forge is like something from another age, with its intense fire, hundreds of hammers and tongs adorning the walls and weighty anvils which look as though they haven't moved an inch in centuries. An iron bottom clasped by an iron hand completes the scene.
This morning we are cooking up mild steel to fashion into a decorative candlestick, which will hopefully take pride of place on the family mantelpiece.
"The temperature should be from 1,000C-1,300C and a good welding heat is a yellow one," says Petersen, which means steel-capped boots and goggles are a must for this line of work. "I've had a few nervous doctors remove bits from my eyes from time to time," chuckles Petersen, as we tentatively poke our steel rods into the crackling forge, strapping our goggles even more firmly on.
And then the clanging begins: we begin by "drawing down" the steel rods, pounding it with a hammer to "upset" or reduce the thickness of the metal, and "drawing it to a point".
The intensive hammering starts to take a toll on my wrists and arms, but once I find a rhythm I strangely start to enjoy it, and gravity takes on the job of slamming metal against metal.
"It's an antidote to our computer-bound lives," says Petersen. It's incredibly hot and dirty work too. "The great thing is that it's an immediate process," he says. "The metal shapes quickly in smithing, as opposed to something like pottery which involves several stages of firing and drying before you see the result."
Students on his weekend course, which is geared towards mastering basic smithing skills, have ranged from artists to stressed-out executives. "A lot of wives send their husbands. Some are spurred to take it up professionally – not everyone is cut out to be a hedge fund manager," says Petersen.
Everyone comes away with their own finished pieces, be they bespoke tools, nails, decorative artwork or doorknockers. Others renovating their homes come to work on specific items.
Blacksmithing went into decline after the two World Wars and technological advances such as arc-welding – an electrical process of joining pieces of metal – but the trade is enjoying something of a comeback, fuelled by a desire to reclaim our traditional crafts for practical and artistic uses.
"People want natural materials in their homes again. Of course you can buy cheap imports from China, but they will never have the same feel as one you have made," says Petersen.
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"The beauty of what we do now is create contemporary artistic designs, using traditional methods," says Bill Cordaroy, the chairman of the British Artists Blacksmiths Association, who is currently working on a life-size steel Twiggy, reflecting his love of the 1960s period. "I've seen beautiful handcrafted masks, so fine you can see the modelling of the face, but with no blemishes or grain in the metal."
Back in class, we start our own decorative work. The candlestick will take the form of a large scroll, commonly used as a decorative touch in ironwork. For this we use a specially shaped scroll "jig", and like Iron Age magic, the steel curls easily around it.
Next comes out the cupping tool and ball hammer to make the candleholder, a little decorative filigree work around the edges of the base, a spot of spot-welding, and I'm ready to stamp my initials on the finished work.
It's an energy-sapping workout – fuelled by breaks for fresh air and vats of strong builder's tea. I can see why blacksmithing releases tension, but there is also something very satisfying, primeval almost, about hammering a piece of this most inanimate of objects and seeing a decorative shape emerge.
Buffed up with a daub of wax, my rustic candlestick wouldn't look out of place on a gothic banqueting table. Its imperfections make me like it more. For better, more than worse, no one will mistake this for one that came off a production line in Taiwan.
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