There were countless places I could have chosen, but Marrakech made the list for one very specific reason: I wanted to see the snake charmers. That was it. That was enough. Sometimes a choice does not need to be supported by a spreadsheet of pros and cons. Sometimes curiosity is reason enough to book the flight.
Getting to Marrakech required a long layover in Amsterdam, so the day before leaving, I mapped out a list of things I could see between flights. I did not expect much from the stopover. Amsterdam was not the destination; it was merely a preposition—a place I had to pass through on my way to somewhere else.
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