Asilah, cheerfulness despite everything

Endless walks, often in entire groups, long hours spent lounging around the beach and on the terraces of the multitude of cafés lined up next to each other, such is the daily life of the Azellachis and the many visitors to this small town where life is good despite the few distractions and cultural venues.A way of life where simplicity, good nature, and above all an indefinable sympathy can be read on faces. Even more surprising is the fact that this lack of animation and this poverty in terms of leisure and cultural venues (only one cinema that exclusively shows Indian films, a youth centre, no theatre) do not seem to affect people's morale. As if boredom had no hold on them.Visibly, the people here have known over time how to adapt to this local specificity which, under other skies, is unbearable.Just as astonishing is the fact that this ease of living, this cheerfulness, is shared by…