Authentic ambience

IT WAS time, I figured, to revisit my favourite North African country, so Mum and I set off for a one-week trip.

Although a lot of time had passed since our last visit, Morocco still retains another-world ambience in many ways.

Three hours after leaving Dublin we were in Agadir. It’s one of the most modern cities in the country, as it was rebuilt after a devastating 1960 earthquake that killed 15,000 people and left most of the remaining 50,000 population homeless. Agadir is a good staging post if you wish to explore further afield and see some of the ‘real’ Morocco; for beach lovers, however, it’s perfect: fine expanses of uncrowded sands extend an impressive distance towards the sea.