Off all the gins joints in all the world, I had to walk into Rick's. Then I left, because it was fucking 200 DH for 3 courses. Casablanca. I had the notion in my head that Morocco would be a pastiche of faded colonial glory, and until reaching Casa, I had been a little disappointed, finding it only in places. Casa, too, has its new town and the huge development schemes along the port. However, you can wander the once-lively streets where all the former colonial offices and embassies were, and visit the sites where international intrigues took place during the first and second world wars. Again, there was not much info available locally, so we had to go online to locate such interesting places. Originally, I had planned to have three nights in Casa; as
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