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What's new? No. 21, seen, heard and read in Marrakech

What s new? No. 21, seen, heard and read in Marrakech

18 May 2012

This week: Cannes, a president, a lounge, a joke, a terrace, the United States, eco day and a chef.

The Carre Eden, a village in the city

The Carre Eden, a village in the city

12 May 2012

This weekend is an opportunity for the people behind one of the most ambitious projects in Gueliz, Marrakech, to launch a marketing campaign targeted at the residents of the city.

What’s new? n.20 seen and heard in Marrakech

What’s new? n.20 seen and heard in Marrakech

11 May 2012

This week: a result, trains, trash cans, a cluster, an extension, an airline, screening for Aids and football.

Voir Marrakech et... rester en vie

Voir Marrakech et... rester en vie

Online on 30 May 2006  |  About the city

CHRONIC Many commercials for the Morocco than the evening devoted to Marrakech and which was broadcast, last Saturday, at a time of great listening on France 2-mediated and relayed immediately after by 2 M. An evening "people" made by and about the "nice people". Foreign stars successor to speak (Marc Lavoine, Charles Aznavour, Patrick Bruel) have all mentioned the cultural richness of the ochre city and, indirectly, that of the entire Morocco.

The only "successful head" of the evening, and who was next to the plate, was undoubtedly a certain Frank Dubosc which the show would be well spent of his antics. Confusing souk, Bazaar and - follow her pretty eyes - camping - comedian turquoise blue-eyed, embarrassed turn ridiculed the "ragheads". Sometimes, it market a carpet with a vendor whose it is not known if he had come from another planet, sometimes he took taxi drivers for scammers who do not use the counter for tourists in negotiating the price of a go and return Casa-London race.

This is true also that our French friends are replicas of Frank Dubosc die but those made during the evening did not correspond to "orthodoxy" of the moment. Difficult to escape the received cliché? One of unscrupulous in each "postcard" show where the presence of a "beast" is the most recommended? It is true that with Dubosc on did not this time to a camel, a snake that charm, a monkey that made the pitre (definitely), but a donkey Brays which and that re-Brays to satiety. But, to each entourage it deserves, say me you, is it not? Let the good pets (Raven and Fox, the goat of Monsieur Seguin, cousin Becassine and puss to leather goods, Louis Vouiton to Frank Dubosc) and return to our sheep of Panurge:

Marrakech please more and more to foreigners and it is precisely this side picturesque which is its charm.

Now popular neighbourhoods become more expensive, since more and more populated by of "jet-setteurs" fortunate to come rub (without to sting?) to Aboriginal peoples into more and more beautiful neighborhoods. Nobody true, likes ugliness, that tried to make us believe Frank Dubosc. This bourgeoisie who feels good fragrance, who loves life, therefore enthusiasm by the old popular district: its Moorish bath, his stable for the ' b'ghale ", its traditional oven, its small people who haggle over buying. admitting that there are other charms than money and attracted by the warmth of a human scale urban planning.

But as long as the connected not to transform not the old derbs of the Medina in new trendy neighbourhoods by accelerating the departure in the suburbs and around Oued Tensift of artisans are not longer park their carts - with their bourriques - and nickel-chrom pavers and aseptic in the bleach of Dordogne...

With the "what" of the popular quarters, prices rise, real estate, butter and his gorgonzola, the terraces of the houses in the Medina are becoming the loft...

Transferred of the Medina, Aboriginal will now move to the out of town.

These Aboriginal to which foreigners settled in Marrakech are so charming that one wonders what they expect to go join them.

A donkey or small taxi back?

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