A 40th Birthday Lunch at the Barrage

What a fabulous spot for sunday lunch, the Relais du Lac at the Barrage. Only 30 minutes from Marrakech, on a balmy November day this really is the place to eat. A set menu consisting of a delicious salad, warm bread cooked on site in a kiln clay oven followed by vegetable tagine and barbequed meat. The crowning glory has to be the heavy berber cake pudding with a glass of mint tea, just what you need to send you straight into siesta mode!

The lake is at the edge of the atlas, during winter giving stunning views of the huge mountains covered in snow.

The water was incredibly low, but you always get this at the end of the summer, before it fills up again from the mountain snow. We had very little rain this year too.