Friday 16 January 2015

As last year, we had some quite heavy rain during the night and it was blustery when we got up. As we had completed what we set out to do, that is get a group of Funsters into Morocco, it was now time to do our own thing. Inevitably of course a few still wanted to stick together so we made plans to travel in a loose convoy to Mohammedia, where last year we stayed at the Ocean Bleu campsite. Others went off singly whilst a small group decided to try for Marrakesh.

So after I’d got our sim card topped up at the tele-boutique across the road from Maroc Telecom (grrrrr) our group of 6 set off on the motorway again for the three hours or so trip south. The weather was mixed and we passed through a cloudburst before taking a lunch stop just north of Rabat.

The Rabat ring road is a bit of a nightmare, made more so by trying to keep the convoy more or less together and a couple of drivers had the odd scary moment. Still everybody survived intact and we eventually crawled along the dirt track that is the way into the camp-site. They still haven’t got the main entrance sorted!

Meeting up with a pair of vans that had set off before us and got a bit lost trying to find the site, we eventually parked up more or less together and settled down to relax. One of our number seems to have a problem with his leisure battery, which we haven’t been able to sort out yet, so they need electrical hook-up, which Ocean Bleu has of course. We’re sure he can get it fixed soon.

Now to make our own plans.