We now appear to have
got into the good weather we've been looking for; though cool at
night the days are now bright and sunny with mostly clear blue skies
and the temperature is soaring.
From Dar Bouazza we
took the ordinary roads, it really not being worth diverting back to
the motorway, and enjoyed a steady run along the coast through the
typically Moroccan towns and villages i.e. disorganised chaos! People
say Morocco is poor but they all have satellite TV and mobile phones
– I wonder if the death rate caused by mobile phones here is as bad
as the UK. Jaywalkers! They also seem to have their fair share of
weekend drivers too, so you have to keep a really sharp lookout.
Our target today was
the small seaside town of Oualidia, just a couple of hours south and
where we've stayed before on a huge carpark close to the beach and
just a few minutes walk from a nice clean modern town. The French
seem to be coming back to Morocco in large numbers now and we
counted over 60 motorhomes parked up with more arriving by the hour.
Eventually the guardians had to close it – and we were by ourselves
last year!
There was, however, a
clue; a couple of car transporters were unloading what looked like
road racing cars and a couple of the streets had barriers. One looked
like it was being turned into a “pits” area and the afternoon was
occasionally interrupted by noisy engines “tuning-up”. They also
had a half hour practice run too while somebody else was setting up a
sound stage. Could get noisy!
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