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Article: Bitten by bug of awesome Marrakech.
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- May 7, 2000
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LIKE most Brits, the closest I have ever come to a snake is at the zoo.
Even then, I was protected from the venomous fangs on show by half-inch reinforced glass.
Yet it was still one of the most terrifying experiences of my life.
It is an affliction I have always had and the thought of travelling to any place inhabited by anything more dangerous than a grass snake never fails to bring me out in a cold sweat.
So it was with some trepidation that I boarded a flight to Morocco on my first ever trip to Africa - the home of more highly-venomous ...