Awoke before 8 am but no hurry to be anywhere until the morning meeting at 9.30.
The team cooked us a 'Berber Breakfast', a delicious omelette of finely chopped peppers onions and tomatoes with a very faint curry spice flavour. This was washed down with the mint tea of course.
Spent the morning doing chores and writing emails and found free Wifi in the cafe area. Great.
Lunch was corned beef and tinned peas.
The travelling Australian family, spending a year in Europe, were having trouble with their fan which wouldn't turn off and a mechanic had been trying to fix it since first light. They ended up fixing a manual switch.
Another large American van with a new £12,000 engine seems to be having some trouble too.
Himself says that these computer systems can bring a Motorhome to a stop at anytime.
5 pm. We strolled down to the square again, this time through all the tiny alleyways and passages clinging to the hillside, past all the houses charmingly painted in varying shades of vibrant blue, down through the old town to the square. We could now see why they call this the' blue town'.
We wandered through the maze of the Souk, to bewildered to consider haggling to buy anything.
It was our first amazing experience of a Moroccan market. The sounds, the sights, the smells, overwhelming.
We sat a while in the square and had a refreshment whilst waiting to meet up with the others at Aladdin's Restaurant at 6.30.
The sun went down and it began to get very chilly so we got up and wandered some more. Spent some time chatting to a young Moroccan
with perfect English who had travelled in America and who had nothing very much to sell but was charming and eager to talk.
The food was delicious, For madame, warm aubergines in a delicious spice surrounded with slices of cucumber, a chicken prune and almond tagine and a fresh fruit salad.
Himself can't remember but all good.
Compared with the cuisine from the south coast of Spain this food is indeed food from Heaven.
Simple ingredients but exquisitively spiced and so perfectly cooked.
It was a bit of a wait for the taxi back to the camp and very chilly.
