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What to pack: Marrakech

Marrakech is truly a tale of two cities: the clamour of the close-quartered souk and the glamour of the wide-open esplanades of the new town. For the former, you want to be street-smart, ready to barter. You need boots made for walking, getting lost, discovering dainty little riads behind hidden doorways. You need sunglasses packed for open-air dining in the Jemaa, where the kebabs sizzle on the grill, charmers summon black cobras from baskets, and the atmosphere buzzes and crackles. For the latter, you need glad-rags, the kind of outfit that won’t look out of place on the terrace at La Mamounia, which should be visited at dusk, when the air is heavy with jasmine and birdsong, and you can sit in the gloaming with a ruinously expensive but eye-wateringly vast negroni and pretend you’re staying there.

Top tables: Les Parisiens, Paris

On the top floor of what is now the Pavillon Faubourg Saint-Germain hotel in Paris, the writer James Joyce composed part of his novel Ulysses in the 1920s. It follows then that the brand-new hotel’s restaurant draws on one of the author’s other books, Dubliners, and, in an elegant homage, it’s called Les Parisiens

Six of the best: fincas in Mallorca

The authentic soul of Mallorca lies away from its busy shores, in its rural heartland. Farming has been the way of life here for centuries, and ineffably charming stone farmhouses (fincas) dot the countryside and the fertile foothills of the Serra de Tramuntana. One by one these are being rescued from dilapidation by owners who are breathing new life into their ancient walls and reinventing them as rural hotels and agroturismos – rustic-lux boltholes that celebrate the homespun and homegrown. Here are six to fall in love with

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