Winter is coming - isn’t it time you were heading for Morocco?
I once knew a crowd of Dutch and English people who had escaped the city life, and moved to rural Brittany in north-west France. Just one problem though - Brittany can get pretty cold in the wintertime. So their second escape, but just for the winter, was to Morocco in north Africa. Having now been there myself, I can see why - I visited Morocco in the winter vacation and found it to be warm, pleasant and friendly. In one carpet shop I met a man from my home area of Yorkshire, whose family came originally from Morocco, who had decided to escape the cold English winter by working for two months back in his family’s home area.
With lovely beaches of golden sand, charming towns with exotic souks where you can hunt for bargain leather goods, delicious couscous, and sweet desserts, marvellous traditional dancers and musicians, and fantastic tiled architecture, Morocco is undoubtedly an enchanting holiday destination.
If you think that a winter escape to the sun is going to cost and arm and a leg, think again - many of the major tour operators are offering some good winter deals to Morocco, for example, Travel Republic are offering one week half-board packages to Agadir for less than £300 per person. A little shopping around on the web can turn up some really good deals.
Agadir offers a fine sweep of sandy beach, good hotels and historic sights. Marrakesh, in the foothills of the Atlas mountains, has also long been popular with the tourists, and here you can have some relaxing time out in one of its traditional spas, where you can have a relaxing, hot bath and sauna. Marrakesh also has a wide variety of shops, and some good, but inexpensive, hotels.
So when you are thinking of escaping the winter, give Morocco some thought.
