Djemma el Fna, Marrakech
The first people we came across were the city’s iconic water sellers in their red tunics with gold braid, colourful sombrero hats and brass cups hanging from leather belts strapped around their bodies.
In the old days these people provided a real and valuable service and dispensed questionable water from a leather canteen to local traders and thirsty travellers but they are practically redundant now in their substantive role because sensible people prefer safe bottled water to the uncertain quality of the water in their satchels. Their job now is to have their picture taken with the tourists and charge 10 dirham a time (about £1) and they probably make a lot more money doing this than they ever did selling dirty luke warm water.
And if you don’t pay but try instead to sneak a picture…
Have Bag, Will Travel 
I like the “genuine fakes”!
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Oh, Andrew- you do make me smile! I guess I’d pay to see them jiggle their pots 🙂
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The trouble is that you can spend a lot of money in that square just by looking and watching!
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