21st and 22nd March
We leave Taroudant at a bon heure, driving the easy main road past the airport at Agadir. stopping for diesel at a typically large Moroccan fuel station, I engage with the pump attendant in my smattering of Arabic and he enthusiastically chats back with delight about where we've been, where we're going and are we having a good time in his country! His two fellow workers join in the discussion as well as Krysia and anyone would think we are at a coffee shop with old friends! This is what makes our Moroccan experience so special. Ordinary people being genuinely lovely.
We drive on to a souk at Aourir, known as Banana village,
where the market is in full swing selling the most sumptuous vegetables one could imagine and so cheap!
We don't need much but buy more anyway, even apples which are hard to find here in Maroc, well, nice tasting ones anyway at 35p a kilo!
Of course it's very hot! Yawn, yawn, I know, not on about the heat again Ted. Well it is hot and it's about to get hotter but more of that later. A refill of the large gas bottle at 40 dirhams ( £3.20 ) and we leave for a campsite we have wanted to try for a while.
Terre de L'Ocean it's called and it lives on the hill way up behind Killer point near Anchor. It's a new campsite, 3 years old now so we were unsure whether it would be our thing or not but settle in to a spot next to a green Mercedes 508 to make ourselves at home.
The occupants turn out to be a charming couple,
Zacarius is from Chile and Tierra from Germany, who happen to be here, like us, by chance and are soon aware of a mutual interest in life, music and spirit. Zacarius introduces himself by joining me while I play my guitar as he plucks away on an asian version of a jews harp! It's a soulful mixture and we have much to talk about as a result.
Tierra and Krysia are meanwhile invloved with looking at the jewellery these two travellers make and are able to slip into conversation about all and everything, giving each other enough time to breath and listen to each others life stories! We are just old enough to be their parents (well only just ) but it does not seem to matter at all.
22nd March
Today just gets hotter and we are blessed with a swimming pool here, which we make full use of.
Keeping the body temperature low becoming very important.
There is a wind blowing in from the desert and it's hot. On top of the direct sunshine, the temperature is rising and this is moving into a new experience. Inside the van, the top temperature reads 44 deg C and that's with all doors and windows open.
So the pool is a blessing! as well as a lovely shower block, on site shop and friendly owners.
Mad dogs and welsh folk go out in the mid afternoon sun, as they do!
We walk up into the hills to see what we can find.
As well as an unbelievable temperature!
we come across rock formations and fossils, loads of fossils.
This is an old sea bed and it shows everywhere
The campsite is called Terre de L'ocean, ocean floor?
We return to a swim in the pool and a bottle of cold fizzy apple juice. And the wind is getting stronger and hotter!
It picks up into tonight and becomes a raging storm of hot sandy wind. Sleep becomes impossible as the van is not only getting battered by gale force gusts but is unbearably hot inside. We are not alone, many campers are out into the night, putting their belongings away or just taking a stroll. These are rare conditions that we have not experienced before, here or anywhere else really.
The forcast is for these conditions to pass soon and an ordinary 25 deg C to return! Here's hoping for a nights sleep. We wish you all love from this hot and windy headland.
xxx
Ted and Krysia
We leave Taroudant at a bon heure, driving the easy main road past the airport at Agadir. stopping for diesel at a typically large Moroccan fuel station, I engage with the pump attendant in my smattering of Arabic and he enthusiastically chats back with delight about where we've been, where we're going and are we having a good time in his country! His two fellow workers join in the discussion as well as Krysia and anyone would think we are at a coffee shop with old friends! This is what makes our Moroccan experience so special. Ordinary people being genuinely lovely.
We drive on to a souk at Aourir, known as Banana village,
We don't need much but buy more anyway, even apples which are hard to find here in Maroc, well, nice tasting ones anyway at 35p a kilo!
Of course it's very hot! Yawn, yawn, I know, not on about the heat again Ted. Well it is hot and it's about to get hotter but more of that later. A refill of the large gas bottle at 40 dirhams ( £3.20 ) and we leave for a campsite we have wanted to try for a while.
Terre de L'Ocean it's called and it lives on the hill way up behind Killer point near Anchor. It's a new campsite, 3 years old now so we were unsure whether it would be our thing or not but settle in to a spot next to a green Mercedes 508 to make ourselves at home.
The occupants turn out to be a charming couple,
Zacarius is from Chile and Tierra from Germany, who happen to be here, like us, by chance and are soon aware of a mutual interest in life, music and spirit. Zacarius introduces himself by joining me while I play my guitar as he plucks away on an asian version of a jews harp! It's a soulful mixture and we have much to talk about as a result.
Tierra and Krysia are meanwhile invloved with looking at the jewellery these two travellers make and are able to slip into conversation about all and everything, giving each other enough time to breath and listen to each others life stories! We are just old enough to be their parents (well only just ) but it does not seem to matter at all.
22nd March
Today just gets hotter and we are blessed with a swimming pool here, which we make full use of.
Keeping the body temperature low becoming very important.
There is a wind blowing in from the desert and it's hot. On top of the direct sunshine, the temperature is rising and this is moving into a new experience. Inside the van, the top temperature reads 44 deg C and that's with all doors and windows open.
So the pool is a blessing! as well as a lovely shower block, on site shop and friendly owners.
Mad dogs and welsh folk go out in the mid afternoon sun, as they do!
We walk up into the hills to see what we can find.
As well as an unbelievable temperature!
This is an old sea bed and it shows everywhere
The campsite is called Terre de L'ocean, ocean floor?
We return to a swim in the pool and a bottle of cold fizzy apple juice. And the wind is getting stronger and hotter!
It picks up into tonight and becomes a raging storm of hot sandy wind. Sleep becomes impossible as the van is not only getting battered by gale force gusts but is unbearably hot inside. We are not alone, many campers are out into the night, putting their belongings away or just taking a stroll. These are rare conditions that we have not experienced before, here or anywhere else really.
The forcast is for these conditions to pass soon and an ordinary 25 deg C to return! Here's hoping for a nights sleep. We wish you all love from this hot and windy headland.
xxx
Ted and Krysia
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