Here We Go Again: Handour tranquility

Or I could title this blog, searching for paradise! But one man's paradise is another man's............?

We set out in search of one thing and found another. Pretty good really. As it should be. As it is.

Our motorbike adventure today took us up a different track in search of the 'Bab n Ali', A known rocky feature high up in the Jbel Saghro. A beautiful drive with the track being slightly more stable than the previous adventure. Green valleys and barren plains whizzed by, waves of hello to people we passed and a slight confusion as to what we are looking for?
So we stop to ask a local, who tells us that, that way is one way and that way is another? Mmmm
We carry on.

The scenery is awesome and what we think is our destination is high up to our right along a narrow track. So we stop and ask another pair of smiling locals. One says up there, the other says no, go back and around. ?? It's all too beautiful for words really, so what does it matter. We turn around and go back to look for the 'right' way to paradise and soon realize that we are going to go straight back to Nkob unless we stop somewhere. The left turn referred to does not exist on this road. So we take a right and drop down the valley side, not too quickly and find the pretty amazing village of Handour.
Which all the photos of today are taken from.

We'd already passed paradise without knowing it!

In fact, we must be in paradise all the time and just don't know it!

I must remember to open my eyes more often and see the beauty that surrounds me. Cheer up old man, we all suffer the same confusion. The grass is never greener on the other side. We just need little shocks to wake us up. Handour is one of these as is travelling.

As you can see in the photos, the small, quiet palmerie is an oasis of life in amongst the dry hills that surround it. Well farmed and cared for, the sound of water is everywhere. a trickle here and a gurgling there. Water pipes are are plunged into pools to take liquid life off to another plot. and not a soul in sight. Not since we left the small village and wandered off to find our base for this days magical picnic.

Here I am trying to get to grips with our new smartphone. Does everything except cook food and teletransport us to anywhere in the world. I suppose it won't be long. Still, it makes a good telephone and camera and is small so is always handy.