Thursday 28 January 2016

Tuesday 26 January

The cloud cleared overnight to a bright sunny morning and the temperature soon shot up, although it was still cool for a while in the shade. Breakfast seemed to be unusually early for us, until Terry discovered his watch had stopped – it's happened on each visit to Morocco.

The servicing facilities are, to say the least, a bit basic but we managed okay, having kept several used drinking water bottles filled with tap water to top up the water tank. We'll collar the bowser tomorrow. Our first gas bottle ran out, rather sooner than we'd hoped so the backup Spanish bottle was connected up – we'll need to be careful with our usage. However, it's only the fridge using the gas with the occasional bit of cooking. Hot water is boiled in the kettle on a gas ring screwed into a Moroccan “Camping Gaz” bottle – dirt cheap and available everywhere. In an emergency we can also connect one of these bottles into the van system although I'm loathe to do so as it's not the best quality and tends to soot up the jets.

This year we've bought a proper Camping Gaz 2-burner stove to connect up to the Moroccan bottle and we did try it out. However we're not over-impressed and it's a bit of a bind when having to pack everything away at night, so we'll leave that for the moment.


Yet another Funster, one of our original group, turned up late in the day so our little encampment now has 11 vans.

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