The campsite in Moulay was nice enough, but when the book claimed it was near a flamingo nesting site, it lied, sort of. There is a flamingo nesting site but you can't see it from the site, in fact the only way to see it is via a local boat trip (as in a local with a tiny fishing boat), which, as it is I don't believe would be worth doing, as I suspect there are only a couple of tame birds over there. As it was, when we walked back towards the trucks from the edge of the site, the winds had picked up a lot and collected all the dust with it, making the walk back a bit nasty. Then during the night it rained quite heavily on and off all the way through ... read more

Well even though we had an early start, thanks to a damn chicken that had been squawking since 4am, we were still second to last to leave the campsite. Once under way it all went quite smooth, even when the mountain pass started climbing up ridiculously high. With 30 miles left we stopped at a small cafe for lunch, which had the most amazing view from the rear terrace. Once in Marakesh we hit traffic almost as bad as Fes, only this time round it was still daylight so you could at least see everyone. Got to the campsite in one piece, but my god it was busy, I have never seen so many campervans. Next day we set about camouflaging the trucks in wet laundry which I think went pretty well. By then our taxi ... read more

Once we were all set up we went to a local restaurant for an evening meal, which was brochettes, with mixed salad for starters. All of which was excellent. The next day we had a bit of a boring day. It started off nice with a small tour of the village and then a look at Benny, our guide’s, house. Inside was a real difference, to the outside which was just a simple mud hut look, but obviously made of concrete, but inside was a small garden of palm trees surrounded by a shaded walk way. Upstairs was a work in progress still as he is building some small rooms for tourists to stay. At the end of the tour we all sat down next to the garden and had tea with small cakes, dates and ... read more

Apologizes, this could be a long one as our internet decided to block us out till we could get to a shop, and a lot has happened in the mean time. Day started off fine with a slow easy morning and then a walk into Chefchauoen. The walk took us in to the top of the medina and not a single person batted an eyelid, as in not one “hello my friend, welcome to Morocco” which, a bit like the port, threw me. Last time we barely made it out of the campsite before we had a local who became our unwanted guide and every shop owner giving us the default tourist script as above (read 2012’s blog). Once we had walked around the main part of the medina, we went down into the newer part ... read more

Day 3 and Dad’s over heating issue has slowed us down to 55mph all the way. This morning I tweaked a couple of the head bolts and shove a bottle of radweld crap in to it, which has helped but not solved it. Last night we didn’t make it to Bordeaux as planned and due to a lot of campsites not being open out of season or not on the sat nav, we ended up setting up in a motorway aire. It wasn’t fully built, but it was very clean and very quiet, one benefit of being on a toll road. That was until Dad woke up and decided to slam doors at 4 O’clock in the morning. As said progress is slow as some of the hills we are now doing 30mph, but as I ... read more