Welcome to Virtual Tangier.

        This is -- by design -- an eclectic site designed to hold a little bit of interest for anyone who passes by.  Much in fact like the  Moroccan "mother of cities" itself.

Tangier sits at the age-old portal between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.  It quickly became a coveted gateway to the riches of Africa for the empires of the ancient world. 

With the rise of Islam, Tangier offered a bridge between East and West, where Moslem, Christian, and Jew could meet, trade and coexist in relative harmony.  This 1000-year-old history of tolerance grows more noteworthy with each new day.

  Tangier's favorite son, Ibn Batouta, was the first great modern explorer, preceding Marco Polo by several decades.  As competing empires eyed the prize, the city became a hotbed of intrigue, a bazaar for information as well as goods.  When the Great Powers turned Tangier into a free-wheeling International Zone, its reputation as a haven for the offbeat, eccentric, and sometimes downright wicked grew larger than legend.

Like Tangier, I want this site to always be an interesting place to visit -- a bazaar of competing ideas, a place to explore the unfamiliar, and a gateway to a bigger world.