What a nice feeling to wake up, despite the fresh air (around 12°C) and from the muezzin’s call, knowing that you don’t immediately have to get up and snooze a bit longer, because today is our leisure day, housekeeping day or shopping day, whatever you want to call it. The camping was still very quiet. Everyone was still asleep. Only Charlotte and Trevor had been up and about.
As we didn’t have to leave, we each took our time to do what had our priority, having breakfast, having a shower or hanging up the freshly washed laundry.

After breakfast, I washed my week’s worth of dirty laundry and hung it up in the hot Moroccan morning sun. It was amazing to see how quickly things dried here. In the meantime there were small repairs on the rig to attend to: the bolt at the bottom of the awning axle had gone missing at some point. A new one was quickly found in the spare parts box and put on. Furthermore, the hook of one of the back drawer’s latches had gotten so loose that it would no longer engage. Taken apart, it showed that one screw holding it in the wooden frame had no longer any support in the wood. A longer screw was found, screwed in and an additional one placed next to it. Everything assembled and tested. Great. This should hold till Abidjan.

The laundry was dry in record time and could be folded.

Brahim had accompanied Trevor into town to search for a shop, that could replace Trevor’s mobile phone screen, he had cracked a few days ago. Unfortunately, they were not successful. They also had a small shopping list of things to buy including dinner and bread for lunch.
Lunch time. As we still had eight surviving eggs from our various offroad and onroad escapades, it was time to use those up. Charlotte cut us some onions and tomatoes. These were fried up and together with the eggs, it gave a delicious scrambled eggs on bread for lunch.
After lunch was leisure time to have a nap, catch up on correspondence, news or administration in one of the many shady places.

Two more campers came in during the afternoon hours. A Swiss one in an identical Ford Ranger with trailer but much kitted out. Trevor got a bit envious, I believe. The other one was our friend from Traunstein who we had met in Merzuga a couple of days ago. You always meet twice.
Tonight, originally we had planned to braai (BBQ) chicken, that Brahim and Trevor bought this morning, but we were enticed by the camping owner to have couscous tonight instead. It was delicious!