March 21, 2014
After a non-descript buffet breakfast in the hotel, our guide Feker picked us up at our hotel. This is the courtyard in front of our hotel, accessed by a wonderful stone gate.
A sign on the gate says a whole bunch of stuff in Arabic, and Porte de France, 13/03/1912 in French.
The gate marks the separation between the old medina and the new city.From our room's balcony, which overlooked the square, I had seen a man strewing seed in the plaza. There were plenty of pigeons there scavenging for leftovers about half an hour later.