Moroccan food is famously good though the truth is it can be a bit repetitive.

Popular across the country are the tajines, which is essentially any mix of vegetables, possible with beef or chicken, that’s made in a conical earth pot heated on the stove for a couple of hours. It’s a lazy, tasty way of cooking and if you have the space in your bags a tajine pot is worth taking home with you.

Couscous is North Africa’s real gift to the world though to be honest it’s often a lot more interesting when served in a vegetarian restaurant in Europe. Here it’s just the backdrop for the vegetables and/or chicken served on top of it. In Moroccan homes you might even get pigeon couscous which needs a strong stomach.

There are tourist restaurants in most places you’re likely to visit and a meal might cost around 40 dirhams but you can also do well just snacking on the street. In the mornings there is the bisara soup, for instance, a bean puree with olive oil on top and eaten with bread. That might cost only 6 dirhams a bowl, and in the afternoons and evenings there’s harira which is a kind of tomatoey soup with the odd chickpea and bit of macaroni floating in it. Again, this can be really cheap at just 3 dirhams a bowl.

You can also buy avocadoes and oranges, dates and nuts, hard-boiled eggs and olives, and just make your own cheap breakfast and lunch.

Moroccans drink a lot of tea and it’s usually very strong, hopefully flavoured with mint and loaded with enough sugar to make your heart race like mad no matter how much meditation you do…