08.03.23

We took off to Rabat. I was still a bit shaky, but we trip worked out very nicely. Well - adventurous is probably the better word.

I couldn't eat that much for breakfast, but just on the road I became hungry. So, we stopped at a motorway service station. Very nice place, very, very clean, very friendly people working here. We had fresh pressed orange juice and strong coffee.

Then we moved on, driving through a very green, beautiful landscape, on the autobahn (highway), for about 8 Euros fee. The street was in excellent condition.

Isn't that lovely?

Super clean and well maintained: the highway service station.

After about 2 hours drive we had to leave the highway, driving on the country road now. Still ok. We were a bit of an attraction to the people there. We encountered children, donkeys, a cow, dogs and other living creatures on the road. Very interesting. 

Closer to the farmhouse, the street turned into a gravel road, and it turned out to be a bit winding and with sharp turns to the left or to the right. Well, well, well - we'll see how that turns out.

The fields were covered with beautiful orange flowers, millions of them. You just can't get enough from this wonderful view.

One of the travellers with one donkey power.

A quick stop for taking some fotos.

Just look nat the beauty - amazing. We came down that bridge and quickly stopped for these snap shots.

Nearly there, at our destination. But this was the wrong house. Accessing this one with our bikes would have been easy ...

Here you can see the gravel road. Still quite ok to drive on.

We took it slowly, avoiding to use the hand brake.

In the video you can now see where we finally ended up.

... and, guess what: the washed out gravel path down to the farmhouse was very steep, with no flat space to park. Turning the bikes on that narrow, steep slope turned out to be difficult. So difficult in fact, that I tipped over again, and so did Omar.

You see here from the dirt on my trousers and boots that we had contact with the ground ...

This beautiful young lady runs the whole farm. She gave us a warm welcome and immediately prepared some welcome food and tee.

She promised that later on she will cook something for us, with fresh salad and vegetables and herbs from her garden, and a chicken (most hopefully it is dead already).

A real cutezy this woman.

The tea is lovely, very strong and tasty. It is made of fresh peppermint, with some sugar in it.

In no time, Asmaa - that is the woman's name - prepared some welcome food for us, with fresh, self-made butter from her cow, salad from the garden, and honey and olive oil from her own production.

Amazing.

This is her farm, or parts of it.

Just look at the place. Isn't it lovely?

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The garden is work in progress, as is the whole enterprise here. 

This is the guest house from the outside. The pool is not in operation yet.

... and this fresh salad and veggies from the garden will be our dinner.

More fresh stuff. She had the arms full of all that.

That's her place, here the guest quarter with the living / dining room ...

a beautiful terrasse ...

... the kitchen ...

... one comfortable, large double bed ...

... one room with two single beds ...

... loads of comfortable couches - and a shisha 

... and some lovely dogs.

Let's see what the evening brings. I would really like to stay here. This place is magic. The right place to write a book.