Lost day

We are still parked up in Boumaine Dades. Last night it was blowing a hooly and it was the same when we woke up this morning. We couldn't see across the valley for the sand in the air, just a buff coloured mist. Consequently we decided to stay put as these are hardly ideal driving conditions and the majority of other folk on this site decided to stay put too, the wind has died down quite a lot now so hopefully we can push on tomorrow. So a day of doing not much at all really, catching up with emails, reading and watching a movie on the iPad - The Life Of Pi. We brought quite a few movies with us but so far we've been too busy having fun to watch many but it was an ideal diversion today.

We also booked our ferry back to the UK. We leave Morocco on the 5th March and the plan was to drive back through Spain and France and take the tunnel back from Calais but it's a long drive back through France so we've booked Bilbao-Portsmouth for the 18th March. That gives us time to visit Seville, Cordoba and, possibly Toledo on the way to Bibao. The Ferry isn't cheap but when you consider the diesel we'll save and food for five or six days that we won't have to buy there's probably not much in it and Phil is really looking forward to 24 hours on a boat. I'm encouraging her by telling her that if she can manage twenty minutes on a camel a day on a boat in the Bay of Biscay will be a piece of cake. Anyway, we have another three weeks here in Morocco and plenty more to see before we have to think too much about heading home. The place we are at now is a hotel with a high walled courtyard adjacent for Motorhomes. Here's a pic, the reason you can't really see any sky is because it's obscured by sand!

And here are a few more pics from our trip in the desert-

No, my knuckles are not white!

 

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