WHY

As it's the first of April and everything I guess I could admit... forgot to continue my story last time.... Just noticed the comments and i can only hope you agree with the "better later than never" thing. :)
To dissolve the (guess, forgotten :) mystery (see blog “Off-topic: Marrakech” of February 07):

The Jamaa el Fnaa is this special place (the main square of Marrakech), where there is actually nothing. Nothing, except people. This is what people do in Marrakech: they don’t have bars, theatres, blabla, but: they go to the Jamaa el Fna. It is an amazingly moving space, with some people having to tell a story, so they just tell it and the others listen. When they finished, they stop, and circles of people simply reorganize on the square. Others playing music together, each with their own instruments, and anyone can join. Others being dressed in costumes, and playing some sort of scene (don’t understand Arabic that well…). It is true that it was hard to watch cause -being tourist-like- wherever we stopped for a moment to stare, someone sent a kid to ask us for money. (noone asked the locals. :)

There were also snake-dancers (people making snakes dance…), and “classical looking” street musicians (but whom also only asked tourists for money :). We had the chance to observe all this from a terrace, on our last day. Until that I didn’t get what is so great about this smelly and noisy place… And well, this is it. It is not a place made famous by buildings and statues. It is a place made great by the people of the city, sitting on their small blankets, gathering and playing music every night (Marrakech is a city of 900.000 inhabitants). I recommend it to All. :)