Morocco

Rabat was supposed to be nothing more than a place to spend the night on my way to Marrakech. A few hours later, I was standing in the blue-and-white lanes of the kasbah, looking out towards the Atlantic, and realising I’d found my own little pearl of Morocco.Had anyone asked me before that trip which three Moroccan cities I most wanted to see, Rab

I was staying in Fes, but Meknes gave me my first medina — and the first lesson that Morocco is rarely as simple as the guidebook version.My first serious day of sightseeing in Morocco did not begin in Fes, even though that was where I was staying. It began about fifty-five kilometres away, in Meknes.Read "Fes — I Walked Through a Gate and Left the

My driver gave me twenty minutes for Moulay Idriss. Just enough time to enter the medina, trust a boy I had never seen before, climb almost above the town - and somehow see far more than twenty minutes should have allowed.My driver dropped me off near the entrance to the medina of Moulay Idriss and gave me twenty minutes to look around.Twenty minut

Travelling to Fes can easily feel like travelling into the past. Pass through one of the monumental gates of its medina and the first question is almost inevitable: are we really still in the twenty-first century?There are sensible ways to visit Fes for the first time, and hiring a local guide is certainly one of them. Fes el-Bali is not the kind o