Woman About Town

LISA HILTON

Red city express MOTHER’S DAY IN MARRAKECH: FEELING tremendously cosmopolitan, Mamma and I made a dinner date at Dar Zellij. She had hopped in from Fez, I from Venice, but with the help of scouts in fezzes and pale djellabas who guided us by torchlight from opposite ends of the medina, we arrived bang on time beneath the stunning marquetry dome of the riad. Pigeon pastilla and orange flower ice cream were a marvellous beginning to a few days’ adventure which included a research trip for me to the archive at the charming Maison de la Photographie to see nineteenth-century images of the city’s once-flourishing Jewish community. Mamma adored the Jardins de Majorelle, where she picked up a copy of Dear Yves, by Yves Saint Laurent’s lifelong partner Pierre Bergé.…

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