21st september
Today, breakfast at 9am with p and a then into the kasbar which was very memorable, although each corner seemed to have a tourist boutique with owners swarming like flies to sell, without meaning to sound snobby, tourist trash. Nice morning, then another goodbye as we headed for marrakesh, same route but slightly different intentions. Crossing the atlas mountains took me to 4000m up and back down and suddenly it was very cold. Met two italians doing a similar route on bmws, then met them three more times! One of them said he had heard about me in italy from one of his freinds in europe, said he recognised the bike, amazing eh??? In a hotel 30km from marrakesh waiting to see what tomorrow brings, hoping to get up early…hoping!
….a bit later
Im parked up in a hotel in serrat, when i say this i mean literally, shirley is up some stairs and parked in the reception just in front of the desk for safety… !!!
A bit later still…..
Breakfast with the french in the hotel then into marrakesh, perfectly into a secure carpark and wandered to find a laberinth of dead ends, music smoke and shops of the souqs. The main square is huge and had snake charmers, dancing monkeys, hoopla and orange juice stands. Wandered until lost and bought some saffron for big sis then still lost, further confused by children sending me the wrong way and had to pay someone to show me the way out! Rode to within 60km of casablanca and found a hotel who said my bike would be safe up the steps inside next to the reception desk. If only my camera wasnt broken! Shirley has an interesting bed for the night! Out to find dinner but its after ramadan and now food during the night is hard to find! During ramadan food in the daytime was hard to find as many places just close due to little business, now they close at night as traditionally everyone eats with family for a rew days after ramadan in a kind of party atmosphere. Add to this the somewhat backward town im in and ive rushed to my room since the current poo valve was about to fail due to fried wild cat kebab.
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