Yesterday was a bit of a bad day, not just for the possible storm, but also as we lost Mark and Alan from the group. On leaving the campsite they heard a knocking noise similiar to France, when they ran out of oil in the rear axle and wore out the bearing. So when we first pulled over, Mark added some oil and we headed back to Ouarzazate for more oil. All the way there the noise dissappeared, but when we then began heading for the first waypoint of an off road route, the noise came back. At this point the guys decided to split from Dave and I and make a slow trip up to Marrakech while we carried on to the route. The route started off on a bad tarmac road and shifted between ... read more

Well after finally managing to tear ourselves away from the pool, we picked a route to Merzouga in Erg Chebbi via Afroud in the Saharra. I plugged the co-ordinates for the dessert stop another overlander, Mac had given us and it recognised the route we had looked at on the map so off we went. The route to Afroud was really good as the views were different again with the road dipping down and across a river bed, where the river had erroded the sides to look like a mini grand canyon. At the end of the road it joined a main road which was interesting as we saw our first dunes, and Afroud was nothing special, just another town that has a main road run through it. Just ouside of Merzouga the Sat nav didn't ... read more

Well the days aim was to visit the Berber Village then head for Midelt. It all started bad when the weather decided to rain on and off when we first awoke, so the tents had to be packed away wet. Once packed up we headed off to find the village, only to reach it and be dissapointed. I think the reason the new lonely planet book on Morocco doesn't feature this place is because its no longer of interest to tourists, and is pretty run down with nothing really to see. So we carried on up the road to the top where there was a nice view point of the valley, in the rain. At this point we studied the maps and decided on a route that would take us to lake tislit. The route down ... read more

Wow! I thought the last couple of days were fun but oh no, the best was still to come! After leaving the campsite above chefchouen, we planned a route striaght to Fés via a route named "death road". This is a road that was apperently incomplete, but for a bunch of burly off roaders, this seemed to good place to go and play. Once out of chefchouen and onto the "Death Road", it turned out to be a single track, tarmaced road that has a 2 foot strip of gravel either side, which is for diving out the way of the on coming traffic, and sods law dictates that they will appear on a blind corner, every time. The views are amazing as you can see for miles and it's all surrounded by mountains. Though this ... read more

Last night we went out for dinner to try the local food. Not really sure about which one to choose, we went for the most popular, which was Cafe Nord. The seating is out on the grass facing the beach, and service is very relaxed. Dave and I put this down to us being too used to fast food places like Pizza hut, where if they take more than 35 minutes we start huffing. But the food was great and of course cheap, i think the bill for four drinks, two chips and two big pizzas came to less than £20 total. After that we wandered a bit further down the street, then crossed over and walked next to the beach back to the campsite. Unfortunately the campsite is out of season, as the swimming pool ... read more