Leaving Auberge Toukbal took a lot longer than we’d hoped. My fancy “use without unrolling” hose pipe takes a toll on water pressure and so we were left with a trickle to fill Jones’ 150l. We gave up after about 100l. Back into town for a few essentials (bogroll) and a breakfast of a rather…

The walls of Taroudant are quite a thing. They’re complete and 7km round. Flynn got his early walk along them. I walked him here last night too and forgot my head torch. In the pitch dark with the larger half of a bottle of birthday red in me I fell face first into a pile…

A bit of a travel day today. We were woken at the Blue Tagines early – not by the call to prayer but by real working people going to real jobs on real busses. Flynn and I met some on our early walk. They were a little confused by my head torch. When we finally…

That’s a lot of seconds. We started the day with a walk through the argan orchards. There are a few smart compounds being built, cut out of the orchards. Instead of barbed wire they have trained prickly pears to grow on top of the walls. The walk itself was out and back on a dusty…

When I went out with Flynn first thing, there was a herd of cows sauntering through the car park luxury camp site. The site is so luxurious we’ve decided to stay another day. Actually, it’s the village and the beach that we’re staying for. With that in mind we dodged the deluge this morning and took Flynn…

The weather overnight was awful. Pouring rain and wind rocking the van. It’s set to stay like this for a few days – some forecasts are predicting that the offshore storms in the Atlantic will land right on our parking spot. We were planning to drive inland to a Kasbah (Kasbah Boulauoane to be exact)…

Today was officially another rest day. We had one job to do: get our van internet back on line. And feed us… so two jobs. Three if you count walking Flynn (which he definitely counts as a job). We set about the tasks in reverse order: Flynn got his walk around the old town –…