To the big city today for a big shop in Carrefour. We’ve decided that meat is very cheap …got two steaks for less than we paid for a sliver of cheese! Mistakes like today’s at the cheese counter won’t be happening again unless we take out a mortgage. 😬
Agadir is very clean and tidy with big wide roads for the Moroccans to practice their random swerving on. Oh, that reminds me ..Monsieur Bramley got his first Moroccan speeding ticket today. There are police checks everywhere here, but even more so in Agadir.
6km per hour over the limit – tut, tut!
The very polite policeman said “That will be 150dirhams (about £14) ..have you got it? “
Cash only of course, not sure what happens if you haven’t got it. At least they gave us a receipt.
Parked up overlooking the sea by a big, wide and clean, sandy beach and started to walk along the promenade to look for a vegetable market. Once we’d passed KFC and Pizza Hut and a few beer bellies, Guy couldn’t face anymore, so we did a u turn back to the van.
We continued north, passing through Banana Beach at Tamraght, where there’s a banana plantation dividing two small towns. Roadside shops are full of them.
We found parking further up at Tahazout- a sort of shabby chic hippy, surfy, kind of place. Walking into the little town we decided it was both beautiful and downright scruffy at the same time. We sat on some rocks in blazing hot sun watching the surfers, camels and horses.
Two girls sat next to us and one went for a swim. She was quickly replaced by a stray dog who stretched out on her towel! 🤣
Walked back up to the carpark where we felt really pleased to have got such a lovely view, only to find out that we were parked next to the family from hell and their many dogs. They looked like they’d been there weeks and treated the carpark like their own private campsite. We moved!
Now on a headland further up. Sat outside in peace to watch the sunset when a car came in and parked two inches away. Then the super loud Moroccan music started.
We smiled our way through it as they’d said “Salam Alaikum” earlier. They fed all the local dogs (we’d already adopted one who had been fed and settled down on the new mat 🙄). Then the music got louder and louder and at sunset they started dancing! The older man came across to bring us gifts – dates, chocolates, a couple of bracelets for me and some perfume for Guy. He then introduced us to his son and said something about Hadj (the pilgrimage to Mecca) but we weren’t sure if they were going or they’d already been.
When they left, they waved as if we were lifelong friends. So nice to see a father and son have such a great time together.
