Over the Top describes yesterday and today. It's Saturday 24th and we sailed a week ago. Yesterday, we spent another day wandering Marrakech. We bought a jelaba for yours truly and proceeded to make him into a model for aging Moroccan hippy.com! The brown number he's sporting was sold to him by a master of his trade. Hopefully I didn't pay too much! but then I'll never know. The shop keeper assured me I'd got a bargain and the quality was premium.
Now why so many shots of old fool? Well, a kind Mexican girl lent me a selfie pole to help show up the junior brown bear. So naturally he didn't know when to stop. Still, a good laugh was had by all and hopefully you'll see the humour too.
Back to reality and the park next to where our van is "parked" will bring us down to earth
On to today and over the Top, literally. We left Marrakech at 9.30am and drove the tichka pass over the Atlas Mountains. Always a stunner, never fails to get you tingling with a mixture of excitement and fear. It takes about 4 hours and following a lorry is s bit of a relief. Slowly but surely.
With the hand of Fatima leading our way, we pass no cars and plenty of evidence of winter storm damage. This is the main road to the desert and the lorries churn up the aging Tarmac. Still, they know how to do it safely and like a sheep I fall into line.
And finally, over down again.
With the snow capped mountains behind us and after some lunch. We push on for several more hours to N'kob. South of the Jebel Saharo, well into the ' desert '. We arrive at 5.30pm tired bunnies. It's been a long day. But just one week after leaving Portsmouth and we're deep in the Moroccan Sahara.
Dodgy geezer over and out.
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