Dar 91 offers private, self-catering accommodation in the picturesque, walled old town of Essaouira, in southern Morocco. Tucked away in a district of the medina unspoilt by tourism, we let the two-bedroom house as a whole rather than 'by the room', with breakfast and daily maid service.

At Dar 91 you can sit back and watch everyday Moroccan life unfold: children playing and collecting water from the communal well; women scurrying back and forth from the public oven; men spinning yarn, chatting on street corners or heading back from a fishing expedition.

Overhead the seagulls cry and in the distance the slow march of time is captured by the muezzin’s 'calls to prayer'...