Leaving our Iken Park Residence apartment in Founty and heading off to Al-Massira International airport gave me chance to see the extent of the development in Agadir. It’s on a huge scale, but the largest seen, by a long chalk, was the unfinished Kempinski Royal Palace, located a couple of minutes walk away. It is undoubtedly, one of the city's most prominent "ghost hotels".
Its history interested me to find out that it is defined by a decade-long legal and financial battle that has left the massive structure a skeleton of its intended luxury.
Crazy to think that this remains the legacy of Rafic Hariri, a 60 year old man, a billionaire and then President of Lebanon who got assassinated, in a massive truck bomb, by Hezbollah back in 2005 in Beirut.
Now, in 2026 it’s just a massive birdhouse!!
Is such a complex life driven by political power and money worth it?
As we prepare to leave the sunshine we wish the ‘Atlas lions’ 🦁 footballers all the best in the final tomorrow and head back to the frozen north.
See you for the next ride…..THE END
‘They Might be Giants’ came up with this in 1990 and if I had a massive birdhouse palace I would make a video like this too…
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