Missing the Drop

Well I had hoped to have a few more photos on by now, but you'll have to wait I'm afraid. Hopefully the anticipation won't disrupt anyone's sleep. But a short update for now.


So Marrakech proved interesting. Though not as interesting as our taxi journey from the other side of the Atlas. All was going well in one of the famous aforementioned grands taxis - this on the back of us deciding to charter the whole cab - until about 5 minutes into our 4 hour journey when the car filled the aroma of petrol. Opening the window only seemed to let more fumes in. However, this didn't seem to bother the cabbie too much, who proceeded to smoke his way through the latter half of the journey. Needless to say, we also managed to fit in an unscheduled stop so that we could sit and watch the driver drink tea and eat bread.

Had a good couple of days wandering around Marrakech. Indeed, I'm sure I'd be able to lead anyone around the souks now, probably blindfolded. Hopefully, the Olympic committee will accept the inevitable and make shopping an official sport for 2008, thereby ensuring a couple of extra medals for team GB.

Then finally it was a night in Casablanca prior to departure. This was perhaps one of the most bizarre evenings imaginable. Having found ourselves quite by chance in some Cuban bar, I can only imagine that someone had decided we were, er, 'important'. Some extremely punctual service ensued, followed by the local girls becoming over-friendly, finishing with the band coming over and asking us if we interested in them. Or perhaps we were just in the wrong type of (gin) joint..............

And in other news, our next leg involves a transfer from Rough Guide to Lonely Planet. In fact, LP now looking after us for the next three months. Perhaps no bad thing, as I can only assume that the Rough Guide is so called due to its being an approximation of reality...........

Later

PS - congratulations to Russ and Emma on their engagement.