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Majorelle Gardens

The queue, in the shade

The Majorelle Gardens are the famous Moroccan home of Yves Saint Laurent. We were glad to get there after many attempts but, on reflection, we are spoiled by the UK's National Trust's incredible standard of presentation and attention to detail in keeping each place as it would have been (at its best). The Majorelle Gardens are beautiful but maintained in an industrial manner with no detail or intimacy. You did not get the feeling that the gardens had ever been the private gardens of such an amazing or charismatic person as YSL. To be fair there were displays of his art and things around the always present venue shop but the garden didn't give the feeling of a place of refuge. On looking at photos from the time there was a lot of undergrowth and small plants, lawns and clearings.

We had quite a queue to get in, possibly our first on this trip, but it did mean that the gardens were not crowded, once in. One has to stick to the red concrete paths which curve around in motorway fashion, I would be pretty sure that they are not original.

Spot Roman

Roman did a stint behind the counter at the shop.

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