Author: Jane

  • Mostly Essaouira

    We left Camping Espirit Nature along the dirt roads we’d walked along the day before. Once we’d rejoined the metalled roads, we drove to a car park on the outskirts of Essaouira. We’ve passed the town twice before without visiting, so thought we really ought to take a look, despite it being very unfriendly to…

  • Olive Oil

    Not a very exciting day today, except that we hope the weather forecast is correct, and it’s the last rainy day for a while. As we left Oualidia, the storm clouds over the sea were lit by the early morning sun to the east. We aimed straight for an olive oil seller that we’d lucked…

  • El Jadida and Ouadalida

    The rain hammered down all night. Jones’s water leak fix is certainly getting a proper soak test. (Software engineering joke, sorry.)  Also weirdly, I had the best night’s sleep ever. So my sleep issues are cured – I’ll be fine as long as we sleep in a Casablanca car park and I have a huge…

  • Heading south

    We left the campsite at Asilah at about 9, having paid the night before. This is the evolution of a system I designed in Morocco three years ago to let us know where we’ve paid for a site – as we left one site without paying and were luckily rescued by a couple we’d chatted to the…

  • Morocco!

    I often get a really bad night’s sleep before ferry crossings, and sadly last night was one of them. Apple is very displeased with me. The alarm went off at 6a.m., just when I’d actually managed to get to sleep, and after a Flynn walk we were off to the ferry. It turned out that…

  • DFDS and Tarifa

    Only a two hour drive today, to the DFDS ticket office at the port of Algeciras. Luckily I’d found a record of my booking number in Notes, so I wasn’t quite as brain dead with vaccine-induced fever as I thought. With that information, I was quickly issued a set of actual paper tickets. Luckily I…

  • To Baños de Montemayor

    Another driving day today. We set off soon after dawn and came across a weird Garmin sat nav failure. Its fastest route takes 7h 22m, and the shortest distance tales 5h 46m, which if I’m not mistaken, is a fair bit faster than the fastest route. We gave up on Garmin, and used Apple Maps…

  • Christmas!

    Christmas Day! After a leisurely start, we walked Flynn along the river below the citadel. Then we returned through town, pausing briefly for Rog to buy himself an almond croissant. On the way back, I “found” an evergreen branch to be our Christmas tree. We started our Christmas celebrations with present opening, blinis and salmon roe,…