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Thread: Lixus Roman ruins, necropolis (graveyard) and a familiar plant

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    Lixus Roman ruins, necropolis (graveyard) and a familiar plant

    Some pics from my July trip...

    The Roman ruins of Lixus are on the outskirts of Larache. They are overgrown and largely unexcavated which is no bad thing when you compare Lixus with the 1950's amateur ground-scraping diggings in Voloubilis. Nevertheless, many buildings are instantly recognisable, such as the theatre below.



    Further down the river estuary I came across some archeologists excavating what I'm told was one of the three necropoleis of Lixus. The guy under the umbrella in the photo below was carefully exposing a skeleton but didn't want me to take a close-up photo.


    (Lixus is on the tree lined hilltop in the distance)

    Growing in the mud flats of the river was a plant I recognised. There was several acres of it growing along the river.


    (Larache in the distance)

    When I was a child growing up in Peterborough my mother used to buy 'poor man's asparagus' on the weekly market. It came from the Norfolk salt flats and is called Marsh Samphire.

    Clean it, boil in water and serve with butter and pepper--no need for salt as it's been growing in a salt flat! You drag the flesh from the harder core with your teeth. Yummy.

    So I boiled some up in my portable JetBoil stove. Quite obviously I didn't have butter, so I used 'La Vache Qui Rit' (laughing cow) cheese.

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    Awesome! What a find!
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    Sometimes things are just bizarre.

    This morning i read this thread for the first time. It was all interesting.

    This evening my wife cooking in the kitchen and serve a new veggie - Samphire (which she found at the local market).

    Very nice.

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    Fetched up there in 2006. Larache was a real find

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    The salt pans interesting

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    and Lixus fascinating

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