Beach-ready and already relaxed, we headed west on a three-hour drive to Essaouira, the nearest coastal town to Marrakech, where we lunched at OceanVagabond, a laidback surfers' hangout.
I lunched on spicy haggis rolls, then sat on the hillside listening to the Creole Choir of Cuba: effervescent Caribbean folk beating back the Scottish weather with percussion instruments.
The last friendly encounter between the two men was when they lunched with their wives at Mr Uribe's ranch in January 2011.In this section Santos v Uribe The wrong signal Error message ReprintsThey are of contrasting personality.
And he lunched with Mr Juppé and met Mr Fillon, helping to "clear the air", according to a deputy close to Mr Fillon.In perhaps his boldest move, Mr Sarkozy put an ally of Mr Le Maire, Thierry Solère, in charge of the party's presidential primary, due in late 2016.
In 2002, Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post journalist, revealed that Mr Woodward had unexpectedly lunched with Mr Felt in 1999, a few months before the 25th anniversary of Nixon's resignation.Even at the time, some of the president's men had their eye on Mr Felt.
He was lunched and dined by Mr Biden and Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, and called on the Pentagon, the Chamber of Commerce and Capitol Hill, before flying off to Iowa and Los Angeles, where he was planning to take in a Lakers game.Nonetheless, no Chinese leader who visits America during an election year can expect just to be buttered up.
Bespectacled and unbelligerent, he has never lunched with other commentators at the Institute for Strategic Studies, still less fired a shot in anger.
He was lunched and dined by Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, and called on the Pentagon, the Chamber of Commerce and Capitol Hill.
It was at the Pegu Club that Rudyard Kipling lunched and listened to soldiers who told him the stories that later would inspire his famous "Road to Mandalay" poem.
The businessmen who lunched this week with Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the prime minister, did not merely exchange pleasantries over their lobster salad; they told him how many rich and powerful outsiders (in America, especially) view their country.They had been summoned to suggest ways to make France more attractive to investors, and their host smiled politely as the complaints flowed.
We lunched on a shared selection of dishes, starting with grilled flatbread, filled with molten, unsalty cheese (khachapuri).
