Loco in Morocco!

Whoaa culture shock! Morocco was hot, dirty, poor and you felt on edge the whole time... But I did enjoy my time there and it make's you appreciate your life and how good you have it... Would I go back? Yes I would love to check out Marrakech and the Sahara desert, but I wouldn't go back to Fez or Tangier where I visited this time... it's a case of been there, done that, tick!

So apologies for the delayed update, due to feeling poorly (see below) but here are some of my highlights from Morocco...

WARNING the following may be a case of too much information...

Got the worst bout of gastro EVER! The epidode lasting a good 12 hours and recovery a good 72! Really I can't tell you how much fun it is trying to take meds to stop the downstairs issue, but the upstairs issue doesn't want to play ball and so it goes on... props to Shelley my personal nurse for looking after me and having to listen in descriptive detail about my bowel movements... lucky she's a dietician so it was just like another day in the office for her... So she said or maybe she was just trying to make me feel better?

On another note when we arrived in Morocco we were warned that we needed to check under the bus for stowaways when we were leaving as apparently kids try to hide... Ok no worries, thinking it was one of those general warnings... Um yeh so it wasn't... on the way to the port in Tangier to catch the ferry back to Spain, our driver checked his mirror and all of a sudden saw a kids head! The others sitting at the back of the bus then looked out the window and saw 4 kids were somehow hanging onto the bus and then some had managed to climb under the bus- crazy!

Trying to get them off was another thing altogether, we would stop the bus, get them off, but as soon as we'd take off again or stop at the lights they would jump back on. After trying a few tactics which almost saw one of us go through the front window and locals throwing rocks at the kids, we arrived at the port finally but discovered we still had one kid who had squeezed himself high up under the axle. Insane! So yes if you ever find yourself in Morocco, in a vehicle, check for stowaways!

Morocco in pictures...





















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