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When tangier was interzone back in the day, it seemed to some i'm sure as if the ex-pats outnumbered the locals. that was never true. but you certainly could live a life apart. make your own world within the existing one. reinvent yourself and live entirely in a universe of your own creation. far from the grand socco is a 14-acre estate owned by christopher gibbs, a well-known dealer of antiques and longtime ex-pat. today he's having a garden party. who's coming? jonathan, you know. maggie dean is from scotland. she's been living here for more than a decade.

Paul bowles lived here for over 50 years and sherry nutting was part of his inner circle near the end of his life. she was his friend, record keeper of sorts, and photographer. you arrived when? >> i came in the '70s, but went down to marrakesh. in 86s i wrote a letter to paul bowels and said i had to meet him and take his picture. he wrote back and said, come and visit. well, i never left. >> a lot of people came here to live that dream, that life. has the reality come to resemble his perception of the reality? >> the tangier i say is paul bowles. i still feel it. you can still find the magic...

Foothills of the riff mountain range, about 80 kilometers south of tangier, to a place called jajouka. the village is home to the people of the al sharif tribe, which loosely translated means the saintly people. jajouka is also home to one of the morocco's better-known musicians, bashir attar. jazz and rock 'n' roll musicians have traveled from all over the world to meet this guy. he's a lineage of master musicians, all from this small mountain village. ♪ famously dubbed as a 4,000-year-old rock band by william burroughs, his son and these musicians maintain one of the oldest still living mu...

Tribe. >> how much will this sell for do you think? >> around $300. >> really? for this? that's very reasonable. i'll be buying that. that's going to be an old friend. >> also memory of tangier as well. majid suggests lunch at andalous, a locals only place nearby. >> as a moroccaner, so many westerners who come to tangier come with a romantic notion of a tangier they read about in books. do people have a realistic expectation? are they looking for morocco or are they looking for this phantasm? >> it is a phantasm. it is when you get here, you know morocco, you feel that you are in morocco, but...

Was loosely governed by the major powers, an international zone. for years, it seemed, everything was permitted, nothing was forbidden. at the northern tip of africa, a short ferry hop from spain, tangier was a magnet for writers, spies, and artists. if you were a bad boy of your time, you liked drugs, the kind of sex that was frowned upon at home and an affordable lifestyle set against an exotic background, tangier was for you. matisse, genest, william burroughs, many have come this way, staying a while or hanging around, but no one stayed longer or became more associated with tangier than th...