Jun 13, 2018 - Casablanca

The romance and mystery of Casablanca was somewhat offset by the issues of finding the right visa line to stand in and getting out of the airport. The nearly two hours wait (at least one hour unnecessarily) gave plenty of time to check out our fellow travelers dressed for the holiday Ramadan. I snapped a photo of some way cool traditional red shoes. After leaving the airport, we were stuck in a huge traffic jam delaying our arrival to the city made famous by Ingrid Bergman and Bogie. The drive through town didn't do much to improve my first...

Feb 25, 2018 - Morocco

Hi All The ride from Ronda in Spain to Algeciras was fantastic scenery lots of small town up in the hills, dropped from 1063m to 165m over 30km of downhill. We are having a great time in Morocco.. We are in Chefchaouen heading towards Ouazzane today, the country side is awesome very green, hilly lots of climbing- olives, citrus and almonds grown. From Ouazzane we will head towards Fez then on to Rabat over the next few days. Wifi is unpredictable and …we haven’t found time to do the blog…just letting you know we are safe and happy. Hope all...

Feb 11, 2018 - One Week On

A lot better today so after lunch we took a taxi back to the scene of the crime at the Medina. Didn’t jog any memories though. We did wander into the narrow lanes of the Medina & I did get to see the famous leather dyeing pits. Also found out that someone had videoed some of the aftermath of the attack & it had been shown on local TV that night. Apparently I was famous! Pretty tiring so soon got a taxi back to the hotel.

Feb 9, 2018 - Fes Hotel

Local authority guy turned up at 9am to take me back to the hospital to get my dressing changed. Felt pretty bad being taken in for treatment in front of all the people waiting outside. Everything seems OK so back to the hotel for another quiet day in our room. Even get to have room service deliver our meals although we are managing to make our evening meal last us for lunch as well. A sure sign that I am not fully recovered.

Feb 8, 2018 - Fes Hotel

Another quiet day recovering in our room at the hotel, still pretty weak & wobbly. What a waste of a 4star hotel but the staff were all trying to help, they were very good. That evening we had six policemen plus an interpreter come to our room to see if we could identify my attacker but we weren’t much help. It happened so quickly & completely out of the blue.

Feb 7, 2018 - Fes Hotel

After I started eating a bit my balance improved & they released me to the hospital. The local authority guy took us to the hotel in his car & settled us in. The police collected our motorhome & brought it to the Hotel so we now had access to our clothes. In the evening we had a visit from the police to take our statements. Still no luck catching the guy. They did show Viv some photos on their phones to see if she recognised anyone but she didn’t recognise anyone. The big problem was that they didn’t speak much English & although most of...

Feb 5, 2018 - Fes

After spending a very uncomfortable night in the ICU room they moved me down to a private room. Still pretty groggy & no desire to eat or drink. We had two beds so Viv was allowed to stay the night even though she had a room at the 4star hotel. Not much available in the way of bedding for Viv so she had a cold & uncomfortable night. I even had my own personal policeman sitting outside on watch during the day.

Feb 4, 2018 - FES

This is when it happened! We carried on today to Fes. On the way we ran into loads of traffic about forty miles South of Fes up in the hills. There was lots of snow about & being a Sunday there were literally thousands of people heading for the slopes. More for sledging than skiing but the roads were chaotic & lined with people renting out sledges. It slowed us down a bit but it was a lovely day. That is until we got to Fes. Our plan was to spend the night on the Guarded Parking on the large square under the tall Medina wall. We arrived...

Feb 3, 2018 - Snow Again!

Day 20 - Saturday 3rd February From sand to snow to sand to snow etc etc! Today we left the sand & headed back to the snow again. Mind you we had to suffer a minor sand storm as we left Mazurka. The wind had got up during the night & was blowing sand across the open fields & across the roads. Visibility affected but not too badly. Before we left the site our gracious camp owner delivered a nice warm round flat bread & a couple of bread pancakes in time for breakfast. Once we left Mazurka it was just a case of heading generally North now...

Feb 2, 2018 - Back To The Desert

Day 19 - Friday 2nd February A quiet day today as we headed South West to Merzouga where we stopped at the la Gazelle Bleu Camp Site, right beside the massive sand dunes of Erg Chebbi. The roads, again, were mainly long & straight with just a few towns along the way. The only real feature of the morning was a convoy of about eight Italian motorhomes that seemed to be following the same route as us out of the Todra Gorge. Fortunately we lost them before we got to Merzouga. The camp site was lovely with just a half dozen French & one Dutch...

Feb 1, 2018 - Up & Down Two Gorges

Day 18 - Thursday 1st February What a marvellous country for touring in. One Day on sandy beaches by the sea, next up in the mountains, then down to the edge of the desert before heading back to the snowy mountains & seemingly endless plains. Something different every day. Today we are going to Gorge ourselves. There are two gorges through the mountains here which are on our list of sights to see, the Dade & the Todra. My plan was to head North up the Dade Gorge about 75 miles to the where the road joined with the road up through the Todra...

Jan 31, 2018 - Heading East To Ouzarzate & Beyond

Day 17 - Wednesday 31st January Woke to the sound of engines as the first of many dune buggies roared past the site into the desert. There are loads of these buggies operating around the area taking tourists around & about on trips. Today there was some sort of rally planned, hence the numbers passing us early this morning. Might have been interesting to stay & watch but we are running out of days & still have a lot to see so need to push on. Our site host knocked on our door early & gave us a freshly baked loaf of the round local bread,...