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Well, it's taken a ridiculously long time and I'm not entirely sure why.

You'll find the first part of the tale here: http://picasaweb.google.com/SumDoood

Once you've selected the album I suggest you go to

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Pause then

Click forward on the arrows.

Sometimes the captions get sleepy and don't bother to appear. A wiggle of the cursor will bring them back (but not all images have captions!)

I'll still be editing and adding, so if I've missed something, do let me know.

Some amazing shots mate.And a few horrific ones as well.Some of those fossils are amazing...

R0B wrote:Some amazing shots mate.And a few horrific ones as well.Some of those fossils are amazing...

Thanx, Rob. There are so many places to visit in Europe that it might be we'll never get back to Morocco, hence some not-so-good shots are included simply because we have no other record. It's an amazing country, and I'm so glad we went.

I'm still deleting a few of the samey shots, but some days there really were some long stretches of samey scenery.

Did you go on some sort of tour Miles

jed

Excellent, I thouroughly enjoyed that . I knew very little about Morocco, but I know a lot more know ..thanks

Mark

jed the spread wrote:Did you go on some sort of tour Miles

jed

Yes. How uncool, eh, but there you are. We did benefit from the organiser's local knowledge, but it was far from essential. And it was strange, very unadventurous to be surrounded by Brits and to have no need to organise anything ourselves.

The holiday was a big expensive treat and for three or four years we'd planned to do it. I soon realised the man who ran the tour was an a*** of the first and ancient order of arses, but more than one couple on the tour said they'd been on other tours much worse arranged. It wouldn't be difficult for readers to work out the details, but I've decided not to give the firm a mention at all.

Somewhere I have, still, I hope, a list of the GPS locations of all the campsites and will eventually include them in the narrative.

pocolow wrote: Excellent, I thouroughly enjoyed that . I knew very little about Morocco, but I know a lot more know ..thanks

Mark

Thank you. It's been particularly interesting to see recent events in Tunisia and Egypt on TV. Morocco is very nearby, of course, and has a similarly bloody awful human rights record - so bad that for years I'd said I wouldn't support the regime by bringing in my "tourist dollar".

Noomo wrote:

jed the spread wrote:Did you go on some sort of tour Miles

jed

Yes. How uncool, eh, but there you are. We did benefit from the organiser's local knowledge, but it was far from essential. And it was strange, very unadventurous to be surrounded by Brits and to have no need to organise anything ourselves.

The holiday was a big expensive treat and for three or four years we'd planned to do it. I soon realised the man who ran the tour was an a*** of the first and ancient order of arses, but more than one couple on the tour said they'd been on other tours much worse arranged. It wouldn't be difficult for readers to work out the details, but I've decided not to give the firm a mention at all.

Somewhere I have, still, I hope, a list of the GPS locations of all the campsites and will eventually include them in the narrative.

Dont worry Miles, I know how these things work

jed

jed the spread wrote:Dont worry Miles, I know how these things work

jed

Yeah, essentially, lots of people (many with more money than sense), give lots of money to a thick bloke who doesn't do much to deserve it, and tells lots of lies not very well. (We can all find such stories any day almost anywhere, can't we). We didn't let it annoy us too often though and can about it now. The fact is, we could've done it all on our ownsome, but too often it would've felt too much like hard work.

Looks great fun! I love that kind of holiday! Was only talking about if our van would be reliable for taking around the EU let alone africa

What kind of price was the tour if you don't mind?

The_blue wrote:Looks great fun! I love that kind of holiday! Was only talking about if our van would be reliable for taking around the EU let alone africa

What kind of price was the tour if you don't mind?

My wife's just had a guess and it's so much I'm embarrassed to tell you.






































Oh, allright..... She might be wrong, but she said £1800 for two adults for 3 weeks including ferry from Spain and back, all campsites, non-existent breakdown support, baksheesh probably, a leader and 3 staff, 3 formal meals.......

Oh, allright..... She might be wrong, but she said £1800 for two adults for 3 weeks including ferry from Spain and back, all campsites, non-existent breakdown support, baksheesh probably, a leader and 3 staff, 3 formal meals.......

That isn't such a bad price when you think about the cost of the ferry

T'Onion wrote:

Oh, allright..... She might be wrong, but she said £1800 for two adults for 3 weeks including ferry from Spain and back, all campsites, non-existent breakdown support, baksheesh probably, a leader and 3 staff, 3 formal meals.......

That isn't such a bad price when you think about the cost of the ferry

Hi, Unyun.

I'm wondering now whether our financial judgements were affected by joining a clique of Northern-ness with a Scottish and a Yorkshire couple?

Another couple have just been in touch saying they're planning a trip with the rather more expensive http://www.gbprivilege.com, so perhaps we didn't do so badly out of it. Once in a lifetime 'n' all that.....

Always fancied an expedition to Morroco but now I am not so sure, it looks very damp and er ....... gritty Good honest pics mind, thanks.

tetleysid wrote:Always fancied an expedition to Morroco but now I am not so sure, it looks very damp and er ....... gritty Good honest pics mind, thanks.

I think the grittiness is permanent, but it seems to me that climate change is so rapid that predictions of good weather are increasingly unreliable. IF I were to go back, I might aim for early autumn. The Atlas mountains would be a little less snowy, but surely one could expect some heat.

I hope you can come back for Pt II when you'll see grit, but quite a lot more sun.