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The Case for Making Essaouira Your Marrakesh Away-Day Destination
Good travel destinations, I said a few weeks ago, should offer their visitors three things: character or history, green spaces for a walk, an interesting day trip destination. In our two last posts, we told you where in Marrakesh to find authentically exotic experiences and the most interesting and beautiful gardens. Today, we will turn…
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The Gardens of Marrakesh
In many ways, Marrakesh appears to be caught between the demands of its ancient soul and the modernity that the professional middle classes aspire to. While parts of Marrakesh and, even more so, the countryside around it look as though little had changed over the past 100 years, … … the modernisers seem to be…
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Marrakesh and the Dark Man’s Burden
Morocco’s tourism industry ploughs a lone furrow. Alone among countries on the southern rim of the Mediterranean, Morocco has opened itself up to cultural tourism as opposed to resort tourism where visitors are carefully quarantined to prevent them from infecting the national soul. The ox in front of Morocco’s tourism plough is the city of…
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Baha’i Terraces of Haifa: The Most Beautiful Garden in the World
Israel is a small country, smaller than the state of New Jersey and roughly half the size of the Netherlands. Due to its long and narrow shape, however, the distances from one place to another can be surprisingly long. There is, for example, room enough in Israel for a 1-hour domestic flight from Tel Aviv…
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Fall in Love With Modern Architecture in Tel Aviv
Modern architecture is difficult to love. It is not so much the concept that is the problem here: all of us can easily agree that its principles are fine and noble – simplicity (less is more), an appearance of elegant restraint (ornament is crime), transparency of structure (form follows function). But while this theory has…
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Stairways of Valletta
by Mrs Easy Hiker Perhaps it is because we are under the charms of Liguria (the nearest Italian region neighbouring Menton where we now reside) and lived along the stairways of Montmartre for more than 20 years, that the sight of the stairways of Valletta gave us a tug of familiarity. There is definitely an…
