Just returned from our first visit to Morocco. What a fabulous country, we enjoyed every minute of our stay in Marrakech. The generous, kind people we met; the lively street life; the tranquility of our Riad; the delicious tagines and the walks in the foothills of the Atlas mountains. The only slight frustration for a die-hard wine drinker like me was the discovery that 90% + of restaurants do not serve wine for religious reasons and that within the ancient Medina itself, where we stayed, there are no retail sales of alcohol whatsoever. I must have been the only rugby fan to have watched the England vs France game (on the telly in a working man’s café) nursing several glasses of mint tea!
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