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That’s it – back in Spain now and heading north for the ferry and back to Stur. Last blog words from the girls…
Dad asked me to write about what Morocco smells like – so here goes… In Morocco one thing is for certain, there are way more smells and amazing sights than on a Dorset B road. Sometimes the smells are overpowering but some are just small hints of sweetness or stinky stuff.
In the main square…
The best thing about sleeping in a tent is that you are totally aware of your surroundings because there is only a thin layer of fabric between you and it. The worst thing about sleeping in a tent is you are totally aware of your surroundings because there is only a thin layer of fabric between you and it. And ‘it’ is an awful lot of noise which, indoors behind curtains, brick and glass, you just don’t notice, bother…
Just a quick update… It’s Easter Saturday and at 12 Midday we reached the End of The Road in M’hamid El Ghizlane right on the edge of the Sahara. Algerian border about 45km away – dunes and desert ahead of us but afer lunch we’ll turn around and head North and back to Stur… Email and Internet very iffy so proper blog when we can – as it is we’ve borrowed a dongle from a friendly Blue Man Berber but as…
As the overall Editor of this blog I’m not yet ready to give my version of the clutch saga but suffice to say I can now swear fluently in Arabic, Berber and French and know most of the technical words for the stuff that happens after you turn the “Go” key and wobble the stickey thing with numbers on. I like the fact that the French for Gear Stick is “leverage de vitesse” – stick of speed. Alas as our “disque…
Apologies for the lack of updates over the last couple of days but sometimes “the best laid plans of mice and men” and all that come to visit and that seems to have happened to us… I’ll let Ella break the news – she wrote her blog along with Maddie and even though events have somewhat overtaken us it’s always useful to have another perspective!
Well, now it’s me, Ella, and I have to say it’s been a bit…
Now, Just like the A Team, I do love it when a plan comes together… there I was waiting at Malaga airport for the Ryan Air flight from Bristol to arrive and quelle surprise and unabandoned joy – the flight arrived bang on time and before you know it Annie and the girls had done that thing that only girls can do where they’d managed to spread themselves out across the whole of the inside of a previously pristine vehicle and…
According to the map I’m around 600km as the crow flies from Fes but given the long winded and windy – that’s windy not windy as in twisty turny not blowy smelly (so, how come windy and windy are both spelt the same?) route we’ve chosen looks like another 1300km or so left to do – got a little wistful as I drove south all on my lonesome today – Rodrigo Y Gabriela banged and strummed away rather energetically and kept…
Heck! Only 4 days until we get to Fes and here I am in Madrid with some 2000km still to go… Lovely crossing with dear old Brittany Ferries – there’s something truly Gallic about those boats – on the one hand you get great service in some parts and others it seems the entente cordiale is a trifle frosty. In the duty free a very fine wine tasting was in full swing so who could resist? Some while later and armed…
“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all” – that’s what they said 20 years ago when Annie and I embarked on the year long motorbike trip around the Med, Middle East and North Africa that gave birth to Olives Et Al… we originally intended to travel around the whole of the Mediterranean coast from Gibraltar to Morocco but in the end Libya and Gaddafi and Algeria and it’s civil war defeated us so we never made it all the…
…and I’m blowing my horn! It’s almost time… Lawrence and Florence are nearly ready to depart… do watch this space for progress updates and the odd picture or two.
Have fun and enjoy the Spring sunshine
