Morocco
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Beautiful Morocco
I have been rather critical in my assessment of Morocco, and in particular Marrakech. It wouldn’t be fair of me, therefore, not to mention that, once you get out of the chaos inside and around Marrakech, Morocco…
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Zidane takes on Ali Baba
They have this endearing habit in Morocco of calling bearded men ‘Ali Baba’. I earned the title for the first time when we stopped for our first ‘activity’ while on an organised tour to the foot of…
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Ali Baba goes to Marrakech
The Jemaa El-Fna, the nerve centre and focus point of Marrakech, a Unesco world heritage site, was surprisingly quiet at 9.30 in the morning. If you exclude the loud calls to prayer by muezzin (or, more likely, amplified…
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Gripes in Marrakech
If you type “Marrakech” in Google images, most or maybe all of the pictures in the top two rows will be photos of the Jemaa El-Fna square, possibly with the minaret of the Koutoubia mosque in the…
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Motor scooters
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I used to agree with this statement before I saw this picture that I took myself on my last day at the Marrakech medina. It’s the classic picture…
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