Moulay-Idriss

We are parked tonight on a campsite a few miles south of Moulay-Idriss. It's a nice site on three levels and very busy. Good electrics but we are using our on board facilities, say no more.

We left Azrou this morning heading for Meknes, the guide books said it had a nice Medina and souk and was not as frenetic and less hassle free than Fes. Unfortunately there are no campsites in Meknes, which is quite a large sprawling city so as we arrived we were looking for a parking space whilst trying to negotiate the most traffic we had seen for some time. I picked up a sign for the ancient medina and we ended up down a one way street which became increasingly narrow with locals waving telling us there was nowhere to go at the end. It did look like a dead end but finally there was a narrow archway leading to a small car park which just had space for our two Motorhomes, phew! The medina was a five minute walk away and didn't disappoint. Paul and Chris had been looking for a lantern and found one they liked at a price they liked too and we found a kilim that we hadn't been looking for at a price we liked. It's a perfect fit in the van and looks beautiful. We wandered the alleyways until we stopped for coffee and biscuits, or Moroccan gateaux as it was described, until we came to the main square and stopped for coffee again to the sound of the snake charmers flute. Food shopping next, fresh fish, chicken, olives, fruit and veg and then back to the vans to restock our fridges. Back to the main square for lunch this time by a different route through a bewildering array of small shops which, once again, sold pretty much everything you could need. There really is no need for supermarkets here, everything you could buy in Tesco's can be bought wandering down a couple of streets and in the covered market.

We stopped to buy some bananas from this guy and he snapped us with his camera, as we returned the compliment he couldn't help but strike a pose:

 

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