. ♪ >> anthony: matisse, genet, william burroughs.ing a while or hanging around. but no one stayed longer or became more associated with tangier than the novelist and composer paul bowles. in works like "the sheltering sky," he created a romantic vision of tangier that persists even today. a dream that has become almost inseparable, in the minds of many, from reality. i'm here to find that dream city. the place burroughs referred to as interzone. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: tangier, like i said, was a city of ex-pats. people with pasts. people who simply didn't like where they were and craved somewhere and something else. the grand socco is the gateway to the medina, where you can find the kasbah, which means fortress, by the way. the port of tangier is to the east. and right in the middle of it all, the petit soco. what uncle bill burroughs called "the last stop, the meeting place, the switchboard of tangier." reasons for settling in tangier diverge. but everyone, sooner or later since the beginning of memory, comes to café tingas. jonathan daws