Having enjoyed our visit into Marrakech on Friday, as the
site was quiet we decided on a chillout day. Bren, Colin and Tina went and had
a look at the shop and ended up in fits of the giggles when the owner dressed
Colin up as a Berber Arab – he already gets called Ali Baba wherever we go
because of his grey beard. Unfortunately no-one had a camera to hand!
Then we seemed to spend most of the afternoon playing with
the dogs…….
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| Woody |
So today we are starting our planned return north, a little
at a time and hopefully visiting some of the places we didn’t have time for
last year. Our first target was Essaoiura so after a quick call in to the
Marjane supermarket for bits we missed earlier we headed off on a very good but
quite boring main road, pausing at the occasional police checkpoint – they
never actually stopped us.
At one point a group of lads tried to wave us down,
making out that there had been an accident and one of their number was injured.
We had heard about these scams so were not fooled and drove straight past – to
see in the mirror the “victim” jump back to his feet. We don’t really know what
their intentions were but were not going to take any chances.
As usual the satnav took us straight to a guardian parking
area, this time an officially approved one on a car park about 1km from the
town walls, and we joined about 50 other vans all neatly parked up and
sheltering from quite a strong, if warm, breeze behind a large sand dune. The
downside, of course, is that we got sand everywhere!
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| Essaouaria |
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