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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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)…

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…