THE STUNNING GROUNDS OF THE FAIRMONT ROYAL PALM
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Marrakech Mama discovers two different and desirably indulgent family destinations on the fringes of the Moroccan capital Wo r d s H E L E N BA RO N
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he famous orange light of Morocco is nowhere to be seen as we step off the plane in Menara Airport, Marrakech. It is just barely spring in the muchmythologised North African kingdom, yet the weather is already – to a British visitor – summer-hot and summer-dry. The light is white and dazzling, the sky a cloudless blue gently paled by dust blown in from the high Sahara. But whatever winds are troubling the firmament leave little trace below: we descend the aircraft steps in a sublime stillness of pure heat. This is why we have come, for the most part: light, heat, sun. Tired of waiting for Britain’s dreary spring to brighten up its act, yet unwilling to fly for more than a few hours with two young children in tow, we cast about for reachable destinations that could give us what we needed: a first few hazy hints of summer.
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