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Article: A Flight to the Couscous Nest.(Marrakech, Morocco)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 16, 2006
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MARRAKECH, MOROCCO--There aren't many cities whose very name conjures up exoticism and intrigue. This is one of them. And it's not just an image. Marrakech rarely disappoints, from the hurly-burly of the souks to a terrace that serves up gin and tonics and a view of palm-filled gardens and snow-capped mountains. Even amid the gentrification of parts of the medina, or old town, a visitor to this imperial Moroccan city could be excused for imagining that Humphrey Bogart, clad in a crisp, white dinner jacket, might stop by for a drink if heweren't tending his nightspot up in Casablanca. Or for dreaming of arriving on the Marrakech Express. Or for musing that that cloud of ...
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