Morocco

The medina is the beating heart of the old city of Marrakech, with narrow winding streets that propel you past cave-like shops filled with everything a tourist might desire – silver jewellry, berbere rugs, brass lamps, the softest leather slippers and bags, and silver teapots with patterned glass cups. The all-pervasive fragrance of the medina …

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My knowledge of the amazing kingdom of Morocco was sadly influenced by popular culture. I had seen Patsy and Edina  visit Marrakech in a drug-addled haze, and Swinton and Hiddleston swoon with vampiric boredom in Tangier. Neither a realistic representation. Our plane swooped into Menara airport, Marrakech, over flat roofs and pink walls, flat brown …

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