BEAUTY AND THE BERBERS When John Gimlette visited Morocco to track down an old friend, he found his senses reawakened by the people and scenery he encountered in the Atlas Mountains This is a tale of an old friend that begins in tragedy but ends well.

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: July 16, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Jacqueline Brandt was living in Vichy when her world suddenly disintegrated. "My son was killed in an accident on Christmas Day,'' she told me a decade ago, "and then my husband left me, taking everything we had.'' Like a character from Hideous Kinky, she then headed for Morocco and the Atlas Mountains, but - unlike Esther Freud's heroine - ours is middle-aged, and already broken and broke.

Ten years later, my wife and I set off to find her, unsure what to expect.

Marrakesh was as good a place as any to begin. Although only three hours from London, it's hundreds of years from the present. On ...

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