A New Year.
January 1st 2008 It was a year ago that I left Morocco during the frantic build-up to the Eid - one of the most important celebrations on the Muslim calendar - and ferried my way back to Spain. In Malaga I wandered the Christmas markets and pounded the flagstones with restless feet, overcome by a sudden surge of holiday longing. What was I doing so far from home, sulking into the New Year? In Barcelona I was a rio
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