Day 33 – Zagora (Last day)

A little cold first thing this morning but it soon warmed up.

When we opened up the van this morning it was some time later before Terry & Brenda appeared. He started to pack things away and it soon became obvious that they had decided to leave us all.

Brenda was homesick and wanted to return to the UK so they were going to make their way back to Tangier to exit Morocco. It is with great sadness we said goodbye and we will miss them both. Hope that we will catch up on our return to the UK in early March.

At lunchtime we took a walk up into town to find an ATM and try and get a recharge for the internet. Whilst walking along the main road we were enticed into a shop by the owner who spoke very good english. Tina was after a simple pin or broach for her shawl. Coffee was ordered for us both and he proceeded to empty various containers and clothes out onto a table. Included were bracelets, earrings, necklaces and the odd pin. Well after some time and a lot of looking Tina picked out a few things. How much I asked. 1020 MAD (£73). Well it wasn’t worth half that. The price I offered was 300 MAD and eventually settled on 450 MAD still far too expensive but we wanted to get out of the shop.

I remembered from yesterday that there was a Maroc Telecom shop further down the road. When we got there at 1:30pm we found it was shut until 2:30pm. OK lets have lunch while we wait. We crossed the road and went into a roadside cafe / restaurant and had Chicken & Chips. Halfway through the meal an old man was begging for money so Tina offered the remains of her lunch which was half eaten and the bread in the basket. He was shown a table by the waiter and stuffed the bread in his bag and ate the remains.

The time had arrived for us to recross the road to the Maroc shop. The girl inside spoke perfect english. We don’t have what you want… you need to try the shop over the road …. the one next to the restaurant. They also didn’t have nor any of the other 3 places we were shown to so we gave up and walked back to the supermarket just outside the campsite.

This shop was also closed but the Berber shop next door wasn’t and again we were asked to enter but this time we extracted ourselves pretty quickly and walked back to the van.

Our afternoon was spent with the others lazing in the warm sunshine and chatting and passing the time.

Tomorrow we move on and we hope to see some great sites and views….more to follow.