No really, we don't want to buy a carpet. Fez, Morocco

No really, we don't want to buy a carpet. Fez, Morocco
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Any trip to a medina necessarily includes a visit to a carpet shop and our visit was no different. The ritual involves pleasant introductions while telling everyone that we don't want to buy anything, followed by sitting down to moroccan tea but reminding them that we don't want to buy anything. This is followed by chats of travels and visits to America while viewing hundreds of carpets, kilims, and hanbels, all the while insisting that we are not going to buy anything. Finally, we extract ourselves from the shop delicately and with many words of appreciation for their fine company and hospitality and flat-out refuse to buy anything.

B'Salema. (I said good day, sir!)