Stresses

Not much to report as moved on to Taroudant

So goodbye to Marrakech with a last evening in the Clock restaurant. It’s been hard work but fun!

And we might think we can cope with minor crises, but we’re not great at it.

Called the car hire as requested before collecting but no reply. Bit of mild concern but taxi driver took us anyway and helped us find it. Phew – door locks don’t work and we had to pay the car park fee (40p) but we’re off. Got lost getting out of Marrakech but eventually had a full tank of diesel and an empty motorway for 100 miles.

Got to Taroudant and got hopelessly lost. Couldn’t coordinate the paper map and satnav for over an hour. On the phone to the hotel trying to (unsuccessfully) explain where we were when our knight in shining armour took the phone off me, said something in French and motioned us to follow him on his clapped out motorbike for about 5 minutes and delivered us to the front door.

Happy ending!