Going further south

'Evening all. Here is the office inside Delfin. That little white gadget is the Mifi which is enabling me to get a wireless network from way down south.


Today we have driven to Azrou which was a straight run down the N8 from Fes. Probably the best surfaced road that we have been on, complete with a line down the middle.
The Cedar Forests clothed the hillsides and at one point Sue got a glimpse of a Barbery Ape. As it was quite close to the fossil seller, we decided that it was a pet ape, tied there to attract business!
We went through the town of Irfane which is where the king has his summer palace. Being at high altitude the climate is much cooler and it snows quite heavily in winter.There was a brief encounter with this group of men who were demonstrating with small red flags and directing their anger at a man in a suit.We carefully picked our way through them and carried on to the Valley of the Rocks. This part of today's journey had us driving across a plain within the crater of an extinct volcano.

We are settled in a family run site in a cherry orchard. There is plenty of shade but unfortunately, the fruit won't be ready for another 3 weeks! Our neighbours are French, Max and Anna from Brittany and this is their fourth trip to Morocco. Just look at these scrumptious cakes that Max brought back from a local patisserie as a gift for our dessert this evening

The cherry orchard but Moroccan not Chekhov