"Careful Leo - remember how you upset yourself at Mombasa!"

[wonderwelsh]

Chris and I were in Morocco last week. We sepnt a few days in Marakech being hassled by locals, visiting tombs, mosques and museums, eating lots of nice food and trying to locate alcoholic beverages. Marakech is a nice place - its narrow backstreets and walled courtyards are strangely reminiscent of Oxford and have a similar sort of undefinable

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[ms_rebecca_riot]

My sis n law Kris said the same thing about Cuba re locals when she went there for a wedding. Evoked the same sort of feelings too.

"I realised I needed to buy new glasses after being mistaken for Harry Potter by a stoned man in an alley". LOL.

[wonderwelsh]

It's nice to know it's not just me. Kris is a nice name, incidentally.

[tonight_we_fly]

I was uncomfortable with the keen, grasping quality of the locals - incessantly trying to give you directions to places you didn't want to go, insisting that certain streets were closed off, begging you to buy from their stalls and so on.

Are you sure you were in Morocco? That sounds uncannily like the area surrounding Tottenham Court Road station these days.

[burnyourbones]

I learnt that the French word for 'avocado' is the same as the French word for 'lawyer'. I saw a man trying to fit a sheep into his luggage (and looking really pissed off and puzzled when the sheep wasn't having any of it).

These are wonderful and excellent things to have witnessed and learned.

Did you find yourself thinking of Problem At Sea the whole time like I am doing now reading this?

But finally: why would Chris kill you for buying fags? This sounds like an ideal way to sample the local culture to me, pshaw and tish at those who do not allow this.

[wonderwelsh]

It was more like "Triangle at Rhodes" really - and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" of course!