I still felt a bit washed out in the morning.  Richard was all for an early start, which he had, but I hung around a bit more taking it slowly, and then took to the road, heading for Skoura.  Our plans are still evolving, but I am definitely not up for a long bus trip in my present condition.  Why the bus trip ?  Well, so that we can get to a starting point to take an a different pass over the Atlas Mountains.  We will see !

The ride to Skoura was made a bit more challenging by the wind, which was against us.  It can really get up in the afternoon.  Anyhow when I arrived on the outskirts of Skoura, I met Richard who had stopped at a watering hole and now was about to get a lift in the back of a pick up from some motorbike tour baggage train, the last 5 miles or so to our Riad.  He, too, has been stricken by the Marrakesh Belly.  I followed on by bike and caught up with him at the Riad, which was lovely, one of the best we have had, and we spent dinner discussing what our plans should be given our respective conditions.  He is all for sticking to the bus plan, I definitely am not in favour of sitting on a Moroccan bus for four hours with the urges I have had over the last few days.  He thinks he will be fine tomorrow.  I think he will be still running for the hills and cover every hour or so.  We will see !

The meal at the Riad in Skoura was very good, well as far as more and predictable tagine and cousous can be.  But, it was on the finer end of what we have been getting.  Unfortunately, in our condition at the moment we are not really able to eat huge amounts, and the servings were massive, so I do hope our hosts were not offended.  I did try to explain in my schoolboy French.  And graphics.  And hand signals.  I remember saying "whoosh" quite a lot.

You can follow my route via my Garmin satellite tracker at  https://share.garmin.com/chrismarsden1954    Choose "View All Tracks" in the top right hand corner of the map to see the full route.

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