Awake early this morning as we didn't put the screen on the ront window last night!
Feeling a lot better, nose stopped running and not sneezing ...yet.
8.30 am At the meeting Ray has his whiteboard out and is drawing directions, roundabouts etc. Help, this looks like a recipe for getting lost.
9am Set off and just 3 k along the road is ' Volubilis' Roman site, 40 hectares? Very impressive and absolutely covered in beautiful Asphodels in flower. So wanted to take photos but can't find the pin number for the mobile phone/camera. Will just have to go back again sometime. We stayed about an hour but it really wasn't long enough. Lots of the mosaics are so incredibly well preserved and there are so many of them.
Next stop after about 50 kilometres........ Meknes, Morocco's 5th largest city, stopping in a large car park close to the Medina.
We entered the Suuq at the Jewish end and exited into a huge street market.
Making our way back to the Medina we sat to watch the sights and refreshed ourselves with coke and coffee and the most delicious hot, delicate, cheese and omelette rolls. They just melted in the mouth. The food here is amazing.
Bab Mansour is the large gate in Meknes City Wall with the square, Place El Hedime, opposite.
Named
after the architect, El-Mansour, a Christian renegade who converted to
Islam. It was completed 5 years after Moulay Ismail's death in 1732.
The gate itself is now used as an arts and crafts gallery; entry is by a side gate.
Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail.
Despite
his extreme brutality, Moulay Ismail is highly revered by Moroccans
themselves. So much, that his mausoluem is ranked as an Islamic sight.
Although only parts of it are open to non-Muslims, it is the only one in
Morocco that accepts this category of visitors. The parts that anyone
can enter are fortunately highly rewarding.
Thousands of people died from the brutal hand of the regime of Moulay Ismail simply for being non-Muslims.
Being a shrine, local women frequent the place seeking good blessings, baraka by touching predefined spots.Admission is free, open every day except Friday (then open for Muslims), 8.30-12.00 and 14-18.00. 
4.30 pm. We are a few kilometres outside Fes at 'Camping International de Fes' and I'm writing this camped under the eucaliptus and other trees. Having stopped at a Marjane supermarket outside Meknes, the Moroccan equivalent of Tesco, we are enjoying strawberry cream cakes with our cup of tea.
Went for a walk around the very large and quite empty site and were spotted by a very kindly Scottish couple and invited to join their burger meal, the burgers having been especially made in a butchers in Meknes market. Difficult to refuse without seeming rude and they were cooking on a very smart 'Webber bbq'. Sadly, this didn't make the burgers taste any better and it was with relief we had to rush to the 8.00pm evening meeting after which I asked Ray if he had managed to locate the 'shared' dongle. I've got a new one he said - only 25 euros and we have to hand it back at Essaouira at the end of the tour. Back on the internet. Great.
