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LLG Travels: A Day at Les Deux Tours, Marrakech

January 4, 2012 Hotels

One of the loveliest things about Les Deux Tours, the hotel in which we are staying in the Palmerie de Marrakech, is that, whilst the rooms are wonderful, the grounds are full of places to hide and dream. Hammocks, four poster beds under the trees, any number of terraces leading off the main building all […]

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LLG Travels: Marrakech Digest

January 3, 2012 Digest

As a quick recap for those of you who sensibly switched off their digital life over Christmas, I headed to Marrakech with my sister on the 28th December for an eight day holiday, split between Les Yeux Bleus, a riad in the Medina, and Les Deux Tours, a beautiful hotel set in an olive grove […]

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LLG Travels: From the Medina to the Palmerie

January 3, 2012 LLG Plays & Stays

(The Pergola dining area at Les Deux Tours) On New Year’s Day we moved hotels, from a riad in the Medina of Marrakech to the Palmerie, a few kilometres outside the city walls. With nearly nine full days to play with, we decided to make it a two-hotel trip, with four days for exploring the […]

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LLG Travels: Les Bains de Marrakech Hammam

January 2, 2012 LLG Beauty

Today my skin is baby soft, and the typist knots in my shoulders have unravelled a little. That’s because we spent yesterday morning at Les Bains de Marrakech, one of the most recommended hammams in the city. As we discovered when we tried to book at a day’s notice, it is always fully booked, so […]

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LLG Travels: Learning to relax (in Marrakech)

December 30, 2011 LLG Plays & Stays

There was a point this afternoon when we were sitting on the inside terrace of the cosmopolitan Grand Café de la Poste in Geuliz — the modern section of Marrakech outside the Medina walls, when it became clear we really were on holiday.

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LLG Travels: Eating, Souk-ing, & Walking in Marrakech

December 29, 2011 LLG Plays & Stays

(The Djemaa El Fna) After missing out on a night’s sleep because of our 5am pick up for the airport on Weds morning — by the time I’d finished packing it was past 3am, and I still had parking tickets to pay and letters to write, we slept in today, making it to breakfast minutes […]

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LLG Travels: The post where we arrive in Marrakech

December 28, 2011 LLG Plays & Stays

I can’t quite shake off the feeling that I am playing truant. It’s so long since I travelled anywhere without a work commitment, that taking a proper holiday, one that has been wholly organised and paid for by me, with no obligation to go or do anything other than enjoy, explore and relax feels completely […]

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LLG Travels: Planes, trains and the odd boat in 2011

December 27, 2011 LLG Plays & Stays

At New Year last time around I blithely resolved not to spend 2011 as I had the two preceding years: that is jumping on and off planes, trains and boats, and to stay put in one country for a while. Of course, I failed miserably. By the end of January I was in Paris for […]

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LLG heads to Marrakech for some sun

December 16, 2011 LLG Plays & Stays

I am in a mild state of suppressed excitement right now: lil’sis & I have been mumbling for a while now about going away somewhere warm just after Christmas and over New Year, given that we both loathe NYE in London. I had been faffing about, way too busy with work to dedicate a day to […]

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LLG Plays: A Whirling Week in London

November 29, 2011 LLG Plays & Stays

There are no two ways about it, I am astonishingly anti-social. I just forget to go out. I like my flat, I like my own company, I like my job — and I work from home, when I am not on a plane. So, unless someone prods me, invites me or makes me, I don’t […]

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