Slowlycatchymonkey

You horror ?

There was so much wrong with them they probably didnt have a list of go to faults ?

Oh god they were absolute shite. So faulty and after I bought it I discovered the dealers were absolute aholes. Their reputation for being unpleasant and unhelpful was widespread but then again so were the Ford dealers. I cant stand car snobbery. By the time my car was 5 years old Id lost count of how many people asked me what my next car would be, like I needed to discard a used tissue or something?!

Good to know about the maps. Maybe I’ll try out Sofia’s throw a pen at the map style of planning ? The reason for choosing Morocco (after we’ve ridden England to Southern Spain together) is not to do with his skill level. He is new to motorbiking but he is also one of those people with a high level of sporting skill and a justifiable level of confidence in that ability. A year before he took his test he did an off road day with me not having ridden a motorbike before and flew through the lumpy mud like it was nothing, simply second nature- yes kinda annoying! Its a very different experience travelling by motorbike and doesn’t involve booking a nice hotel for a week and staying in the same spot. Its out of a lot of peoples comfort zone to go away not having all the accommodation booked and staying somewhere different every night. Just as you say Morocco is not in the comfort of Europe and thats why its I think the perfect step for thrills that once he’s experienced he’ll be smitten and further flung destinations will be on the cards ? ? I passed the point of no return on a Nepal/Tibet trip and broke my foot (I can confirm the RE Himalayan is a heavy bike ??). Its in the back of your mind this stuff can happen but when you’re quietly wedging your foot into a boot and riding on through mud because the only other option is spending days bust up in the back of a truck waiting to reach dubious medical attention it becomes painfully clear you‘re very far from home so I suppose I’m saying I dont enter into these things unwittingly and I know well from other experiences everything is not risk free sunshine and roses. Women in particular have to be careful not to cause offence (one of the reasons I won’t go to Iran) ? but I tend to do my homework on where I’m going ? Its terrible to hear of your dreadful experience losing Maria in Tangier. Not just the awfulness of being so far from home and the undoubted fear of what care she was receiving but the simple unadulterated horror of losing your partner that way so unexpectedly. She looks so young and vibrant in your pictures I almost can’t believe it, I’m sure you couldn’t. You have nothing but my admiration for having to make your way through that quagmire and clearly not giving up. So are you mixing it up when you go back with some known destinations and some new or sticking with your favourites? Is there a better time of year to go temperature wise and what are the expected temperature fluctuations over 24 hours? I want this to be successful so dont want to take my husband slogging through miles of mud, is there a rainy season? Looking forward to reading about your other trips ?

All I can add is my experience of Peugeot.. aaaargh never again....... ?

Thanks for the tag @XTreme Lovely. As Pedro said, very green footage of a nice spot ? Have you been there long? I fancy getting a drone but as the helmet cam I bought is still in its box and the sena coms kit doesn’t get used Im going to wait until Ive mastered those two before adding any more tech into the mix ? Do you know what the drone rules are there?

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Thanks for this reply ? Gonna take me a minute to get back about it but I have more questions if thats ok?

Soz I cant speak window licker. Come back to the topic when some evolutions taken place ?

Durr. Take a look at most countries involvement in slavery in the past and ongoing. The point was the people who come from other countries can still take pride in their flag regardless of political beliefs or their past. Not so here, its sadly associated with certain folk that many others dont want to have anything to do with. Avoiding getting political, regardless of what anyone did in the past the English are constantly apologising for whatever the psychopath of the day did, you cant fly an UK flag here without looking like a moron. Edit- I’m not saying its right, I’m saying its the way it is now.

Great report. Glad I waited until I had time to read it properly ? I wonder if people who live there find it hard to suspend belief if they watch a film and think “hang on thats my back yard” ? “Pastilla, which is a some of sweet and sour pastry” is that sweet and sour as in a salt and sugar mix? Really looking forward to getting to Morocco. It is in my mind one of those places that seems exotic enough to provide new delights but tame enough not to frighten. I think a good start for my husband. Did you have paper maps as well?

Why Wednesday?

I’m pretty sure that’s Doc from back to the future!

Electrics and automotive were the applications I remember but they seemed to think it would be useful for pretty much everything and yet Ive seen it nowhere ?

@yen_powell I dont know what your area of expertise is so ignore this if it means bugger all to you but a while back I was hearing lots of amazing things about Graphene. There was even a Nobel prize awarded for work into it. This marvellous super strong plastic was destined to transform a lot of things and yet it seemed to just disappear off the radar?

How depleted? ? Great post. Enjoyed that a lot. Anything I read that causes my finger to point in the air while my tiny brain processes the words is always good ? I’m most surprised given how much human biology Ive had to study and that a lack of molybdenum can cause (amongst other things) lens dislocation and I didnt know about it. I’m guessing its rare or given its properties it would be more commonly used? Is the “youth opportunity scheme” the same as the ‘youth training scheme’?

Ah Ive got that one and not yet read it. Still chewing my way through Hunter S Thompson’s Hell Angels. Look forward to hearing what you think.

What have you moved onto reading now?

Umm did they check the alloy used at other sites? ?

Yes theres a distinct whiff of I got fed up writing but the publishing deadline was looming so that’ll do!

First time I heard it it really made me laugh too, so much so that when some of us were treated to a brief visit from animation company that lent all their equipment for us to make a film I used it. I co-wrote the story line about a nuclear power station that was badly built blowing up and the then government all cramming in a van with Bodgit n Scarper written on the side before closing themselves in a shelter and leaving everyone else outside. It was shown at the London film festival amongst others and went down pretty well that these 12 year old kids had made this short. So well that we were made to take it to private schools and show the privileged that pleb school kids did this thing. Unfortunately I hadn’t particularly disguised the politicians faces, just cut them out of the newspaper with a very unflattering outline (Id given Norman Tebbit a particularly sinister cut ?) so they always went the same way- everyone was friendly and pleasant and we were welcomed with tea and cake then the very short film was shown and silence would descend before we left under scowling eyes ? In our own way we’d had to bodge it and scarper ?

@skyrider did you ever chew your way to the end of that book that started off reasonably well and then he just became a bit annoying? I think it was called Uneasy Rider?

Another fine upstanding British tradesman doing a bodgitnscarper no doubt ?

Told you you’d be attracted ?