Marrakesh shopping tour: Contemporary class

By Brian Johnston
October 1 2016 - 12:15am
Purses, depicting Berber women in ceremonial jewellery, from Sissimorocco. Photo: Brian Johnston
Purses, depicting Berber women in ceremonial jewellery, from Sissimorocco. Photo: Brian Johnston

Day nine in Morocco, and still it's marvellous, but I'm just a tad over its tumultuous souks. I've had enough of the goat-scented rugs and pointy slippers that I suspect back home will just look like tawdry props from an Aladdin pantomime. I don't want to see another lamp unless a genie pops out of it and offers me a gin-and-tonic. Could we perhaps, I ask my driver-guide Houcein delicately, haul ourselves out of the Middle Ages and into the contemporary Marrakesh shopping scene?

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