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Monday, 25 December 2017

Liberalism: what a great idea it was. Wonder whether it will make a comeback? You can’t really tell, can you

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A few days ago, the EU announced it would be instituting disciplinary measures against Poland in view of new measures signed into law by its...
Monday, 11 December 2017

Final day and I read up on Scott of the Antarctic as I prepare myself for flight cancellations, icy roads and war stories. At least we didn’t get those here in Morocco, though it did rain all afternoon. Now it’s off to the loo. If you want to know why (though I’m sure you’ve guessed – that’s right ice in a drink) read on

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Morocco – Day Five (or Six, I’ve lost count): Marrakesh You might have heard, and perhaps you are interested, but I suspect you have neith...
Saturday, 9 December 2017

It’s all pretty much a blur consisting of yet more hours travelling by coach, topped off with an utterly futile search on my own for a cigar shop which might exist or might just be a 1,001 Arabian nights myth

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Morocco – Day Five: Rabat/Casablanca To be honest, I could almost not be bothered to write this entry detailing today’s goings on as not m...
Friday, 8 December 2017

Nothing much more, keeping in faith with the title of this blog (possibly a touch twee?) and so just a few more details of day’s goings on, including an interesting visit to a city’s ruins

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Morocco – Day Four: Meknes (Where, you ask? Well, bloody look it up. Don’t you have Google maps?) OK, it’s getting late, I’ve spent anothe...
Thursday, 7 December 2017

A five-hour schlepp around the souk reminds me that a souk is a souk is a souk. And I am persuaded not to waste my money on a de luxe camel leather bag, and that the difference between £9.10 and £101 is a rather hefty £91.90

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Morocco – Day Three: Fes In May I was in Israel for a week and spent a day in Jerusalem, where after visiting the Wailing Wall, I headed i...
Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Day Two in which I get full permission to let the bile flow freely

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Morocco – Day Two: Fes NB I have been given carte blanche by my sister – I am here with her, her husband, her husband’s sister and my brot...
Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Marrakesh and that beer and a smoke, but, no, not that because I no longer indulge (though I wouldn’t mind) and although my brother-in-law’s guidebook to Morocco claims pretty much everyone smokes hashish openly (and the country is its biggest producer), it isn’t actually legal and the cops are quite keen to crack down on dope-smoking tourists. Have I learned a little wisdom in my old age?

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Morroco – Day One, Marrakesh. I should actually be titling this entry Agadir, but there was a ‘change of plan’, which didn’t suit me too w...
Sunday, 3 December 2017

Like Webster’s dictionary I’m Morocco-bound

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Off to Morocco tomorrow for what is pretty much a buckshee holiday. Not quite buckshee, but £263 for seven nights in pleasant hotels, flight...
Thursday, 30 November 2017

Susan’s funeral and her husband’s sense of humour and ‘an aesthetic approach to politics’

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A funeral today and my birthday (this entry was started on November 21). There is no particular connection and most certainly no meaningful ...
Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Sorry, but Brexit: pretty much a fuck-up all round. Sad, but true

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Sorry, but I can’t resist it any more. What with the daily, if not hourly, developments in – well, why don’t I for simplicity’s sake merely ...