146. African Adventure (with apologies to Willard Price)

Moulay Bousselham, Morocco

Algeciras

Rudely awoken during the middle of the night with a jab in the ribs from Jacqueline -  It's twenty five past seven, I thought you had set your alarm?

Me - I did and its only ....... ummm, OMG!

Nine o'clock ferry half an hour drive away, arrive an hour before departure so depart Aire at 0730. 

Q. Why did I set my alarm for 0730?

A. Because I am an idiot! (0 points for the correct answer)

Bye bye ittle bittle Blighty

On the road at ten to eight, nobody fed, well flustered. The only victim was our excellent plastic door mat that we unintentionally abandoned.

Couple of laps round the port in order to find the correct entrance. There was a man in a day glow vest waving us in to the correct entrance but we had stoically ignored him the previous lap as the travel agent had taken pains twice to state that we had paid everything in advance and to ignore official looking people trying charge us to enter the port.

Warm up laps

Uneventful ferry sailing with only sixty five passengers. Immigration is done on the boat.

Tangiere Med

Customs - I will complete this paragraph after we depart Morocco (it took hours). Who knew the children's walkie-talkies needed a radio licence?

Asilah

Driving on beautiful motorways with light traffic in the drizzle through rolling green countryside with all late model cars felt like the south of England.

1. Drizzle - it is the middle of winter
2. Light traffic - a police man earns eighty euro per week here, we were paying seven euro per section.
3. Rolling green - crops here are grown in the winter
4. Late model cars - see number two

Couple of laps of Asilah to find Morocco Telecom. Dash to the ATM for cash, everything is cash here. Passed onto the manager who was a lovely chap. Took a couple of goes to explain that I wanted fifty gigabytes of data not five but got it all done for fifty euro which is a bargain as campsites often charge five euro per day.

Moulay Bousselham - Aliantica Parc Camping

Spirograph

Couple of laps of the town (I can see a theme developing) before a well spoken Englishman pointed us in the right direction while a local resturanter tried to simultaneously lean in the window and convince us to dine at his special restaurant with best Morocco special dishes . Great camp with only slightly scary toilets.

Lots of space on grass with scattered trees and thousands of cats no, you can't touch them nor feed them and we are definitely not adopting one.