I spent much of my youth hearing Graham Nash singing about the Marrakech Express. It was a big hit in the early 1970s and always on the radio. I often visualized about that train with ‘ducks and pigs and chickens’ and ‘charming cobras in the square’. Marrakesh seemed like some exotic, far off land in a distant place I would never visit.

But finally now I have.

And I discovered Graham Nash was spot on. Marrakech is full of sights and aromas and flavours and experiences. And thanks in no small part to Crosby, Stills and Nash’s hit song also full of tourists.

Padma, Jenni, Russ and I roamed the inner sanctum of Marrakesh’s medina for three days and really did come away with some very vivid images ‘through clear Moroccan skies’.