Monday Day 51 We'd camped in a village not far beyond the border town and soon had a decent sized crowd gathered around us. Tents were pegged down in case the storm actually hit (it didn't) and cook team started setting up. Small things can excite us at this stage, like the prospect of meat for dinner after more than a week without due to weather and lack of ice but now we had ice and meat (and cold bottles of water!) and we sat around waiting. Usually there'd be more interaction with the locals but being bumped around and having to hold on and duck branches was draining so although maybe not much of an excuse, most sat quietly. Dinner was a delicious beef and rice stew and I went to bed soon after, desperate ... read more

Wednesday Day 39 My alarm went off at 06:14 so I could squeeze in a shower before breakfast at 7 but I really didn't want to get up. I'd planned on having one the night before but my towel was on the truck and Toni was sleeping up there. I did not want to incur the wrath of Toni (who's lovely and probably wouldn't mind but still). Some people had been having cold showers but mine was hot and with the early morning air still cool, I actually felt refreshed! I unplugged all my electronics and packed them along with my sleeping bag and toiletries and dragged my bag out to the truck before breakfast, putting the stuff I wanted for the day under my seat. We were on wash-up after everyone had finished eating and ... read more

Thursday Day 33 Woke up to a very wet tent and we waited until after breakfast to see if there was any chance of them drying. Of course it started raining and it ended up being even wetter, the gravel and sand sticking to the fly sheet as we rolled it up. We took off towards Agadir for one last stock up at the marjane and two nights of very little sleep meant I spent the majority of the morning with my iPod on, dozing. I knew when we'd arrived at our free camp site when we turned off the sealed road and onto a bumpy path that led past a farmhouse with a decent sized field full of olive trees and oddly enough, gum trees! Past the dog and machinery we drove up to a ... read more

I've lost track of what day it is. It's been over 3 weeks because we passed the weekend in Marrakech so I guess we're at Day...22? I haven't much to write about the city and no photos apart from our night out - and they're not for public viewing! I spent the first of our four nights at the lovely campsite - and though the peacocks were indeed lovely, their wake up call was anything but - and then headed into the city centre and stayed at a riad only minutes from the bustling square. Three of us shared a room and revelled in the fact that it had a proper clean toilet and a shower only feet away! I did wander around the square but found the chained monkeys depressing and even worse, the terrified ... read more

Tuesday Day 10 We're in Rabat and free days are starting to translate as lazy days spent around the campsite, but I'm okay with that. It was our turn to cook and we were anxious to lose the reputation of taking the longest to serve dinner (so we're three perfectionists, sorry!), therefore vowing to start early and prove everyone wrong. We'd decided on chicken schnitzel, courgette and eggplant fritters for the three vegetarians, a tomato and cucumber salad, carrot and pineapple salad and rice so after breakfast, we began breaking up the leftover bread for breadcrumbs. I was a little unsure about how it would work but we eventually figured if we spread the bread out across three plates and left it in the sun on the truck, not only would it dry out but the ... read more