2008/01/17

Bus number 7 is tearing along int he middle of Morocco

Greetings from the picturesque town of Tinerhir. Typing is a bit difficult, a sin the local internet café the keys are completely at a different place, instead of qwerty azerty, EVERY single key out of place.

Sorry for leaving you without updates for so long. The reason is that with Aravind’s mobile internet we managed to produce a bill of 320000 HUF (approx. 900 GBP) in 3 days, so we had to give up this option.

We reached Melilla yesterday morning (the ferry arrived at midnight sharp), but because of the late start and the held ups during the day (splendid, but 1,5 hour lunch) we didn’t manage and didn’t even want to complete yesterday’s 850 km stage, so we stopped at Errachidia 130 kms from the day’s finish. Int he end we have a sleeping unit.

We had to use the Siesta heater again for the chilly night, again, it was freezing 0 degrees Celsius.
The team and the atmosphere is great, we have loads of food and drink (just in case we bought 25 l of wine and a huge whole ham, chorizzos, etc. in Almeira).

Today’s stage is 580 kms plus our 130 from yesterday, we managed to complete the latter by 10am. There won’t be a problem. We ask you not to worry if you don’t hear from us, there’s no internet on every corner. Mobilphone signal keeps dropping as well.

All in all, everyone is having a great time, the vehicle eats the km sas it was brand new and runs perfectly.

We’re leaving now, we’ll post as soon as we can!

Big hugs for everyone,

Bus number 7 team

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