If I was a rich girl – Shopping in Morocco

All the colours of Morocco in neatly folded piles of rugs all shapes and sizes.

From tajines big and small, to fes hats, incense burners, pure eucalyptus, mountains of spices, Argan oil, random colourful pots and plates, pashminas, and straw bags… There are so many things that can be bought in this shopping mecca.

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Majorelle Garden and Marrakech outside the medina

The vibrance of the Majorelle blue.

In my new blue babouches, wearing a long summer dress I had got for a bargain in a charity shop back home, I have to admit I felt like an under dressed Arabian princess gliding over the dark terra cotta coloured path. The scruffy looking husband in his army shorts and flat cap did not help this image.

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