Leading travel writer returns to Fez

Paul Clammer, lead author of the forthcoming 9th edition of Lonely Planet's Morocco guidebook, returned to Fez this week.


"Getting lost in the medina as a young backpacker in 1994 was a formative experience", says Paul. Fez remains his favourite Moroccan city, which is why he's so pleased to see a photograph of Fez on the front cover of the new Lonely Planet guidebook, out in February.

"After all the weeks of rain you've endured, I'm happy to have brought some sunny weather with me in time for the launch of the book", said Paul.

Paul was in Rabat applying for a visa for his upcoming research trip to Mauritania, and what better way to wait for it than spend a couple of days in Fez, seeing old friends? Paul has already stopped in at Cafe Clock a couple of times, and is staying with fellow LP author, Helen Ranger. But he also can't resist checking up on what's new in Fez in advance of his next research trip to Morocco in 2010.

The View from Fez wishes Paul happy researching in Mauritania.



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