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…

It was very cold first thing this morning – 4 degrees outside, and 12 inside Jones. We’re economising with gas, as it’s difficult to obtain in Morocco, so we just had the heating on for an hour or so, using a heady blend of gas, and electricity from our leisure batteries. Gite Souss It was…

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…