Day 23 – Tafroute (First visit to town)

After using Brian’s inverter all night I tried to remake the connections to the battery. Still not completely successful. Tom soon came and helped and remade the connections…. we think it will work now.

Late morning and we strolled down to town visiting the ATM on the way. We had lunch in the Chicken shack where most of us had checked and chips with a soft drink mainly fresh orange juice. The cost turned out to be 75 MAD for two people or £5.30.

Next was the stalls down the side of the dried up river bed. Tina bought some veg and then some assorted spices for a Tagine she will cook. Our next purchase was a decorative gas bottle cover. The asking price was 40MAD to which I responded 30MAD and Tina then promptly offered 35MAD which he quickly accepted. Still it was only £2.50.

We continued to stroll around the village and our friends were buying all sorts of things. We ended up buying an aluminium windbreak for the gas burner we are using to boil a kettle outside. Then it was some morocco slipper shoes and finally I succumbed to the pressure and bought a man bag that Tina had been encouraging me to buy for the last week.

The walk back was a killer and I had to take some pain relief which helped. The sun soon went down and so did the temperature so we retreated back inside the van. Soon the local girls arrived with soup and bread. It wasn’t very warm so we heated this and had it for our evening meal. Tasty but not exceptional was the verdict.

Tried the inverter again and it still doesn’t seem to want to work. Really not sure what the problem is so maybe have to take another look in the morning.

Expensive day (by Morocco standards lol) but very enjoyable spending time with a great bunch of people.