Day 41 – Oualidia

We had a good nights sleep even though I did hear the guardiens behind us during the night.

I woke Tina a little earlier than usual and she has been feeling a little better today. We stopped en route at a Marjane (Supermarket) and bought a few essentials and she also went into a pharmacy and got something for her chesty cough. Lets hope it works.

We stopped for lunch at a small beach site at El Beddouza. It was a lovely spot and would have been good to have stayed the night. We were right by the sea with the Atlantic waves crashing in however they had put up signs saying that Pets and Camping were banned. Real shame.

We moved on to our intended over night stop of Oualidia. Big car park close to the beach and 25Dh a night (£2). No sooner had we put the handbrake on we had all of the street vendors trying to sell their wares. We had Crab, Sole, Fruit and even someone taking orders for his wife’s home cooked Tagine. We declined all offers.

This evening we had an english guy come around looking to see if there were any brits here. He is married to a Moroccan girl and they have just had a baby. They also had the wives sister who was 15 with them. He is renting an apartment here during his 3 month stay and is looking to use his tent and perhaps stay on some guardien parking areas. It was interesting to hear some of the background to how they met and married. He could speak arabic which he has learnt over the last couple of years but his wife could only speak arabic. She could not read or write in her native language and could not read any of the road signs. Neither of the sisters could speak french. We gave him some tea bags and a tin of baked beans for them to try and they went on their way after an interesting couple of hours.

Tomorrow we plan to go to a site in Mohammedia we used on day 16. We might get some washing done here.