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Sat 07 Jul 2010Mystical Morocco
It’s 40 degrees and some change in Marrakech. I am trailing around the city’s streets with my five-year-old daughter on a four-hour walking tour. The numbers are against us, writes DEIRDRE VELDON
TEN MINUTES in and it’s too late to go back as we’d lose our way. Mopeds zip past in the narrowest spaces. The child, growing increasingly puce, goes all Beckettian on me: “I can’t go on,” she wails. I spray her with water and offer the first of many confectionery entreaties. “I’ll go on,” she sighs.
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