the kasbah, the medina.when you have a european purchasing power coming over here to tangier -- >> they come like we come. we embrace it. other people want to come. and then we throw up. we'll, will tangier's unique character survive? >> i hope so. i really hope so. >> tangier is morocco. always was morocco. and recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it. in all its ill reputed glory. the days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. hippies can just as easily get their bong rips in portland or peoria. but the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of tangier, what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in, that's here to stay. >>> for most of my life libya was a word with bad associations. libya meant gadhafi. libya meant terrorism. >> pan am flight 103 went down in a blazing fireball. >> libya, a bad place where a comical megalomaniacal dictator was the absolute power. nobody in liby

it's the gateway where you can find the kasbah which means fortress. it's what uncle bill burroughs called the last stop. the meeting place. the switchboard. reasons for settling in tangier diverge but everyone sooner or later since the beginning of memory comes to the cafe. johnathan dawson came to this city over 20 years ago as a journalist and never left. he live ace life not too distant from burrough's fantasy. cake and tea at 4:00 every day served by his man servant. he may not have a gazelle but a pet rooster will do. and every day he makes the rounds of the caves seeing all the old faces. ending up sooner or later here. >> this exists in roman times and port jeez and the english were here and now it's completely morocco but this is a very historic square. very historic. >> as a writer, i noticed everybody that comes here to do an article does the same article. >> it's so boring. they all do the beat generation and there are lots of other stories in more rocco. but everybody likes the beats, bill burroughs and tennessee williams. they were all he