Sahara
Day 3: Tangier
Catching up with the diary in the corner of a café in the casbah, Tangier. Wonderful mint tea, crumbling murals, and, as Spanish is the second language here, Barcelona FC posters on the wall.

'Not at all,' he insisted, 'it is a well-policed state.'
There's an Anglican church nearby which was painted by Matisse, one of a number of artists, from Delacroix to Francis Bacon, drawn to Tangier by the quality of light and the tolerant hedonistic atmosphere, which also attracted writers like Bowles and Joe Orton and William Burroughs. Putting thoughts of hedonism aside for an hour or two, I fish out my only tie and walk over there for Sunday Service. My parents would have been proud of me.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Sahara
- Day: 3
- Country/sea: Morocco
- Place: Tangier
- Book page no: 19
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