Tuesday 21 Jan 2014

Time to move on. We decided to stick with our mini-group for the moment and head further south, where we were told it was now warm and sunny, so the target was Tisnit, just below Agadir, via the local Marjan hypermarket.

Well, that was the plan; suffice it to say the convoy leader took a wrong turn almost straight away and 5 vans ended up driving round and round Marrakesh city centre, up dead-end streets, through narrow arches with mirrors scraping and a quick turn round the Royal Palace car park (much to the concern of the local police and army). After 1½  hours, having spotted a likely way out we peeled off but nobody followed us so we eventually found our way back onto the motorway. Stopping later for lunch we met up with a breakaway group, then later still re-joined “our lot” at a service station.

What? Through there?

You can't park that there!

More roundabout art

This trip was scenically excellent. Before long we were climbing up into the Haute Atlas mountains with the snow-covered tops above the clouds – regretfully it was quite hazy and most of the photos were useless, but here’s a couple of the best anyway.

Arriving at Tisnit we found, unsurprisingly, all the campsites and stopovers were full. However, one of the advantages of a forum is that we’d been told of a little spot just outside Aglou-Plage, where we found a very small, very basic campsite with just enough room for us all.

Then as it got dark and the drinks came out, we enjoyed ourselves chewing the fat under a canopy of millions of the brightest, clearest stars we've ever seen.