It is on days like this that I sometimes ask myself why I am not sitting behind a comfortable desk in a clean office, with coffee on tap, logical emails to answer, and people around me that I understand.
Instead, I spent my morning in Bab el Khmis; the noisy, industrial area of the Marakech Medina.  [...]

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Water. How this basic resource is taken for granted. Water feeds the vegetables which Said’s father is lovingly growing on the L’Amandier site, water brings the cement to life, water quenches the thirst of our building team who work from the moment the sun hits the land to the moment it dips behind the mountain. [...]

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As a family business, it only seemed right that my sister Mikaela should join us… 
Ha!  She didn’t see it coming! 
 
A casual invite to join me on an interiors sourcing trip to Marrakech in December 2008 was the start of a new life for her.  She had never been to Morocco.  It took literally minutes before [...]

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The Khan brothers have always had an interest in property investment and development.  They started on the relentless path of buying and redeveloping flats in London and Cambridge, working tirelessly alongside Jane, at weekends stripping, sanding, painting, rebuilding.  Their enthusiasm stretched, they would wearily pack up tools and head back into work on a Monday, [...]

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I often ask myself, how on earth did we get to this point?  It all began after a romantic holiday to Morocco for Riaz and Jane (my brother-in-law and sister-in-law).  Now, most people on their well earned breaks kick back, relax and switch off from the world.  But no. Not these two.  They met a [...]

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