Missing Marrakesh in Morocco
Out Morocco overland tour was coming to and end, so after leaving Ouirgane we decided the best thing to do was to miss Marrakesh on the West side and head back to Kenitra for our last night in Morocco before going up the coast road to the ferry port to Spain.
So we left quite early and continued towards Marrakesh and then headed west towards Amizmiz, onto the A7 north to Casablanca and then onto Kenitra.
I will find some photo's of the journey from somewhere, we must have them, but this was not a really good part of the tour. We did however miss the traffic in Marrakesh which on a good day can be described as mayhem, but we hit the rush hour at Casablanca.
Oddly because James 90 really could not go over 50mph we did the whole trip at about 45mph and we got 34mpg out of the Discovery. This was however beaten by the P38 and the 200tdi 110, both of whom got another 3-4mpg. James did not do as well.
The highlight of this leg of the trip was watching the guys eating in the motorway cafe.
Anyway, we got to Kenitra and stayed in the Cork Forrest again. Now they will not admit it, but Sid and Adam used their home made awning for the 1st time all trip, so we spent some time posing in different positions so the wives could believe they used it several times.
Again, Mike got some beer out and we settled down to a hot meal and out last night in Morocco.
We started off the next day quite early and because we were all going our different ways after we got to the ferry port we all set off at our own speeds.
On route Mike had a blow out on the motorway, I'm not talking about the normal eating which was done in the morning, but a proper one. So Mike and Jerry had to stop and replace a tyre. James did not stop at all because he was going flat out at 50. The rest of us filled up with diesel. Adam and James filled all their jerry cans for the way home as well.
Oddly we all ended up on the same ferry and got to Spain mid afternoon.
So our time in Morocco was over, we now just had the 1,300 mile to get back home and two days to do it in.
That's it folks, I'm not going to boar you with the trip through Spain and France, that was the easy bit of the whole Tour. Needless to say we stayed in two great cheap hotels on the way back and perhaps had to much to drink on the way back.
On the whole I would recommend any Landy owner to go to Morocco, its a 4x4 off road paradise and has lots to offer everyone.
Lastly despite what people say, outside of the major cities the people are on the whole really nice, although they can be a little annoying.
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