Contrary of what we are used to when we hear or read the slogan “What happens in… stays in… ,” “What happens in Marrakech, stays in my heart and I’ll be more than happy to share it with you… I learned more about the real, local, non-commercial Marrakech in the last 5 hours of my [...]
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Marrakech by ourselves
Sunday, November 6, 2011 Last night we went to the main square for dinner. The big plaza, which by now we recognize well, gets lively with thousands of people at night. Jogglers, monkeys, music, orange juice, serpent enchanters, henna tattoos, traditional dancers… you name it. We ended up having dinner at a nice restaurant facing [...]
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Marrakech, November 5, 2011 Upon arrival to our Riad, which located inside one of the five quarters of the Marrakech’s medina, we were given a brief tour of the boutique hotel. Mohamed, the front desk guy, told us about the Abraham’s day celebration next Monday November 7th. Then, we were taken to the waiting room, [...]
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This past week there were 3 night of entertaining at home. Coworkers, newly weds, and a group which ended up being a group of one (thank you for your support till the last minute and for your friendship, you know who you are) which I beefed up with other friends of mine that didn’t have [...]
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I was attending a put luck party and I knew it very well ahead of time. I didn’t know what to bring but for sure I knew I wanted to bring something different than the usual and on top of that I wanted to bring something “Latino.” So, the day of the party came and [...]
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