{"id":2224,"date":"2023-11-20T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2224-desert-teatime.html"},"modified":"2023-11-20T22:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T11:57:14","slug":"desert-teatime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2224-desert-teatime.html","title":{"rendered":"Desert Teatime"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2890 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/15-_G2A7912.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n <br \/>\nThe riads of Marrakech, the mountain guest houses and the nomadic desert camps all shared the same Moroccan tradition, they greeted us with a tea ceremony on our arrival.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSugar sweetened mint tea is most common but during our stay in Morocco we were offered brews of green and black blends, mint leaf tea blends and various combinations with and without sugar.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt\u2019s quite special watching the tea being poured into tiny cups from a half meter above without a drop being spilled.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere Adnane deftly demonstrates his skill dealing with a heavy teapot, sloping ground and a fresh crosswind, all while maintaining his boyish smile. A most hospitable teatime welcome in the desert.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#Morocco #travel #mint #tea #tradition #desert #nomad #ceremony<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The riads of Marrakech, the mountain guest houses and the nomadic desert camps all shared the same Moroccan tradition, they greeted us with a tea ceremony on our arrival. Sugar sweetened mint tea is most common but during our stay in Morocco we were offered brews of green and black blends, mint leaf tea blends &#8230; <a title=\"Desert Teatime\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2224-desert-teatime.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Desert Teatime\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}