"Dar Liqama"

Marrakech, Morocco
Real Housewives of
New York
season
4
| episode(s)
7-10
How does the saying go? You can take the Housewife out of the Upper East Side, but you can’t prevent Ramona Singer from haranguing and scandalizing every service worker in Luann’s rented Moroccan mansion so badly that they would rather ride off into the desert on an epileptic camel than ever help her unpack again?

It’s something like that. The blond team of Ramona, Alex, and Sonja are determined to embarrass Luann from the moment they land; Ramona wondering out loud in the car from the airport if the country is safe, Sonja refusing to leave their luggage unsupervised in the driveway of their gated mansion, and Alex stomping around in her Herman Munster shoes (even Louis Vuitton makes mistakes, as Luann says).

In the end, the winner was the prescient fortune teller who told Ramona that one day Mario would cheat on her…

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