The Off!
7 April, Sepanyol ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
This is the Istanbul trip which didn't happen because of waiting for the fire risk to pass which became the Picos trip because there was not enough time when the rains came which has now become theBaca lagi
Too Heavy!
7 April, Sepanyol ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
So when I left we had to push the bike out of the garage I rent in town....Now this is not quite as whimpish as it sounds....the garage faces on to a steep crosswise slope and it has been rainingBaca lagi
Everybody else has a Landy......
8 April, Sepanyol ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
They all have winches and stuff!
Gibraltar astern!
8 April, Sepanyol ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Visibility not too good and the policeman not turned up to man the passport booth on the boat. When I looked up how to do this it said 'Do NOT get off the boat without your papers stamped' Oh Dear ..
It's breakfast Jim but not as we know it
8 April, Maghribi ⋅ 🌬 20 °C
So no brekkers for me again, up at 6.30 to get to the ferry two hours before departure and turn the wrong way out of the hotel so a 20 minute detour making a 30 minute journey into 50 but no interestBaca lagi
Really hard off road
8 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Next time I book a hotel I will ask about the road to it......silly me to expect a hotel in Morocco to have an actual road. So back road to Chefchaouen and all good.....but a bit weird when I firstBaca lagi
Chefchaouen
9 April, Maghribi ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
I tried to set my cameras up this morning to find a strange fault on all the DJI stuff....two different phones running the software and two different DJI cameras but same fault on both....I am forcedBaca lagi
All Change
10 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
So after the beauty of Chefchaouen I left early to struggle up the off road lane ....early so nobody would see me fall off and to reduce my chances of meeting something head on on the steepest andBaca lagi
White and Purple
10 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
As I crossed the Riff the geology turned to chalk and limestone. Whole villages made from the rock they stood on blended and vanished into their surroundings.....and then the flowers came....
Get your Red Hats here!
10 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
So I arrived.....no idea where I am going to park but I am sure if I leave it here there will be nothing left by morning!
The Medina
11 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
10,000 alleyways, some only a foot wide, so no wonder I got lost...madrassas, camel butchers and silk from agave cacti what a place!
The Tannery
11 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
It takes two months to cure a skin here and two thousand people work in this space which has been here for six centuries. The smell is unbelievable and they give you mint as you go up to theBaca lagi
Oh....Oh.....
12 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Just passed the snow gates
All Change
12 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
So crossing the Atlas everything changed....the people are different...not yet Berber but not the same as the folk in Fes...the geology changes all the time with limestone giving way to sandstone andBaca lagi
I need to stop going south
13 April, Maghribi ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
So the forecast for today was dreadful and it did threaten rain for a lot of the day but only broke as I arrived at Erfoud. Fabulous journey, snow on the mountains, but also a lot of water poolingBaca lagi
Does this place rock?
13 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
So I am in a Kasbah....bit put off by the metal detector on the way in (which I failed.....have you any idea how much stuff I need to keep the Italian motorcycle happy?) but inside....in the darkestBaca lagi
Doing an Amanda
14 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
There are things about sand......it is meant to be dry here.....this is the Sahara after all....Algeria and Morocco fought a war here...it is called 'The Sand War' not 'The Mud War' I know this lookedBaca lagi
Tinghir
14 April, Maghribi ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Feeling sore now the adrenaline has worn off......I need a beer!
Todgha
15 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
One of the two gorges near Tingir with the 'most dangerous road in Africa' between them.
Dades
15 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Well.....I promised Kari only this morning I would not attempt the road linking the two gorges.....I needn't have bothered it has been washed completely away at the Dades end.
Anti-Atlas
16 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Well after my embarrassment at falling off in the muddy sand I thought I should go and have another look at the Sahara so I am on my way south again and crossing the Anti-Atlas....the views areBaca lagi
Turnabout
17 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Very dusty here today....in fact I haven't seen the stars since I crossed! One more look at the desert and I turn to the North West.
Oarzazate
17 April, Maghribi ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
The air is still full of dust and very hazy. The first Kasbah in the photos was destroyed in the recent earthquake here
Ait Ben Haddou
18 April, Maghribi ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
More films shot here than you can shake a stick at...all the way from Lawrence of Arabia to Jewel of the Nile and Game of Thrones. Now in danger due to damage from September 2023 earthquake





























































































































































