Marrakech is a bit nuts… Aparently there’s about 500 scooters here to every one car. And it shows - crossing the road is a nightmare! And then there’s driving our big van about the place…..
Still - we’ve been here for about 4 days now, and becoming used to it all - it’s actually a great place to spend some time! As we’ve spent a bit more time in one place we’ve been able to take in the sights without too much of a rush..enabling us to absorb it a bit more and, dare I say it, relax!
We have also been doing some work - sourcing a hotel for our guests for the next couple of weeks trips we’re running here. And we’ve now managed to finalise our route: Canadian Dave McDougal is helping us out on that one - he’s been running trips here since ‘98 - so knows the place like the back of his hand. Land-Rover support/uplift, unused miles of singletrack on the downs… Can’t wait.
The first trip is getting underway on Saturday - expect some awesome photos and videos up here in a couple of weeks!
In the mean time - here’s a link to some pics from our relaxed sight seeing tours of the city…
p.s. we did spend a couple of nights in Rabat.. it’s a good place to get used to the hustle, but not worth too much of your time - Marrakech is where it’s at.
Wow, it all sounds amazing! Can I tempt you two to come to Borneo biking with us? I think it is outside your season 21st - 31st March…
Sxx
we must have missed each other by a week - I was in rabat last week!
THink I am going mad - sure I put a comment on yesterday!!! I think I must have just missed you - I was in Rabat last week too. Hope you are enjoying Marrakech.
right now I realise that you moderate the comments so I am not goimg mad!!! so apologies for the double postx
Feeling very jealous reading about your travels now we’re finally back home! Sounds great though, and your travel writing is brilliant! Hope you’re both well and maybe talk to you soon. We’re now moved up to edinburgh and I start my new job on 3rd December (couldn’t resist getting another month off work!). Tara xx
Man, that sounds amazing! Stop depressing me, its mid November, its bloody cold, I have no holiday left!!
sorry for being so depressing… just can’t help it!
I am really interested in your Morocco trip for next September 2008. There are 3 of us who are looking for a trip which has a singletrack theme to it. I see from your articles that your last trip was a bit of a recce have you sussed out some decent routes now? And what do you think the price will be? Do you have a minimum group size? We were let down by a company this year because they couldn’t get 5 people for the trip so wwe want to make sure it happens this time. We are pretty keen to start getting things booked so please contact me asap. Cheers Gez Currie
Hi Gez,
We will indeed be back in Morroco next year. Details have yet to be decided - but I shall make sure you’re the first to know. We will have a minimum number of participants, but don’t see that being an issue - we’re pretty confident we can spread the word about this years trip in such a way that we’ll be all booked up…
Watch this space.
Guy