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Adrian Mourby recalls a solitary Moroccan road trip from Casablanca through the Atlas Mountains to Fez. He starts his journey in Essaouira, which means “the beautifully designed small fortress” in Arabic, and indeed it is lovely. Orson Welles filmed his version of Othello in this town, with its whitewashed walls, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. Cat Stevens hung out on the beach in the 1960s

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Trying to sum up Casablanca is more difficult than you might think. After all, the name itself is more likely to evoke images of Michael Curtiz’s iconic 1942 movie than it is the actual city, even though not one scene was shot there.

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No ticket, no problem: Dom Joly on British parking bureaucracy, plus the Moroccan road trip that put his speed fine-swerving to the ultimate test

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