Flights from the UK and France to Marrakech Airport (RAK) are now so frequent and reasonable, it is only a short hop to an entirely different culture, a touch of the exotic, and of course the winter sun. The flight from London Gatwick, for example, is just over 3 hours and sets you down in [...]

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View from a Guèliz café… (Guèliz is the downtown area of Marrakech or, la ville nouvelle) Stylish Moroccan trendsetters in their aviator glasses and latest Diesel jeans. French businessmen in jeans, polished dress shoes and carefully coiffured hair. Tourists in their inappropriate clothes and sunburnt skin, clutching water bottles in the heat of the day. [...]

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We are very lucky at L’Amandier to have some fabulous neighbours, and La Roseraie is one of those. About a kilometre further down the road, this long-established hotel nestles in the valley secure in its beautiful and verdant gardens. But apart from the joy of taking coffee on the terrace, or lunch in the outside [...]

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