Day 28 – Tata (Last day)

Lovely bright sunny and warm day. It was not cold last night unlike when we had been at Tafroute so it made for a more pleasant sleep. Our plan today depended on whether the street market that we saw last year was going to be there again today. We were told by the guardian that it was on Sunday and not Saturday. We decided to take the short walk and go find out for ourselves. Hoorah …. it was the same as last year.

Tina loves to explore and she has to look at all of the clothes, trinkets, carpets, cooking, food etc stalls. There really isn’t much that she doesn’t explore. We ended up buying some nuts, vegetables and great big thick pieces of steak at a very reasonable price of 103MAD (£7.30) which is enough for 2-3 meals.

Just after we woke we noticed that the electric had gone off. When I enquired I was told the whole town was without electric. So when we had walked the length and back of the street market we decided to sit with our friends and have a coffee. Some ordered coffee whilst others order Orange juice. Soon the owner came back and explained that there was no coffee as he had no electric. Juices all round then…  Next he sent a boy off and he came back with the oranges, next it was for the cake we asked for and then someone was sent to go and buy some glasses for the orange juice. You would have expected all this to be expensive by now but the bill was still less than £1 each.

I sat and listened to AFC Bournemouth commentary over the internet. It worked pretty well up until the last 15 minutes when I lost connection. By the time I got it back the game was over and I missed the winning goal. How frustrating is that. The others enjoyed sitting around the swimming pool soaking up the hot rays. However, you really wouldn’t want to swim in the pool as the bottom looks like it could do your feet some damage.

We had decided to eat out tonight so we left the vans at around 7pm to go and find somewhere suitable to eat. After 30 minutes of wondering around we found a street side restaurant and all 8 of us sat down. It was still 16ºC and very pleasant. Meals, drinks, bread etc were soon consumed over convivial chat. It was a most relaxing time. At the end the owner offered us the bill but seemed to get his adding up wrong but we paid up our share of 80MAD per person or less than £6. Perfect. The temperature had dropped to 12ºC by the time we left but still not unlike a summers evening in England. Nothing like end of January in the cold and wet stuff I guess everyone is enduring back home.

We move on again tomorrow to Foum Zguid. This is yet another place we visited last year.  We should be able to catch up on some washing over the possible three days we will stay there. After this we will be in new territory as we have never gone further east than this point. The adventure continues …..