Paula Hardy

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Paula Hardy

The city's riads, palaces, hammams, gardens and madrasas are vastly underrated - and therein lies the charmFrom the roof terrace of Riad Fes, I can see one of the world's greatest and last living medieval cities laid out before me. It was dreamt of by the eight-century moulay (holy man) Idris I, a grandson of the prophet Mohammed, who fled to Morocco to escape Harun al-Rashid, the caliph of the Arabian Nights.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Paula Hardy

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3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Paula Hardy

I had started my week in Fes, at the World Sacred Music Festival, where I was seated in a royal ceremonial space, Bab Makina, watching whirling dervishes, chanting sufi sects, the angelic-voiced French mezzo-soprano, Battista Acquaviva, and the sama of Meknes whose rapturous polyphonic songs preserve some of the most beautiful Arabic poetry of Al-Andalus. Watching with me was patron, HRH Princess Lalla Hasna, sister of King Mohammed VI.

Mar 8, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Abigail Newton |Rob Crossan |Pippa de Bruyn |Paula Hardy

The low-cost airline thinks you should book a beach holiday to Dakhla in Western Sahara - and frankly, so do ITell people you are off on holiday to Ryanair's latest destination, Dakhla, and you will likely be met with confusion. "Where?" they will ask, with a tilt of the head.

Mar 8, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Jane Knight |Rob Crossan |Pippa de Bruyn |Paula Hardy

A luxury catamaran trip delivers access to off-the-beaten path areas of the islands, as well as a generous dose of French flairThe beach bars were buzzing at Anse Source d'Argent, probably the most photographed stretch of sand in the Seychelles. Bikini-wearing tourists danced to Bob Marley's reggae at one bar, while another pumped out Phil Collins's "Another day in Paradise".