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Day 234                                                        10th March<\/p>\n

Ben Mansour<\/p>\n

Day off the bike.
\nUp at 7.30 with Younes and Aman joining me. In fact Younes slept in my room last night. Brekkie of hasher bread with cheese and olives. Then off to the patisserie for a Danone delivery and a free yoghurt for me  and Aman. More tea before prayers at the mosque, which gave me time to clean the bike and try to fix the gear lever with some help from the older boys. We had couscous with eel for lunch before going to the souk for coffee with Kamal, Aziz and Mohamed, where Vernon on Facebook was asking if I’m OK after not posting for a while. I had just enough wifi to reply, and explain that lack of good wifi and options to charge batteries which had been ongoing, meant I was out of touch for a while.<\/p>\n

We went to see Aziz’s wife’s family, to get involved in a big discussion of a dispute over land between two brothers which became very heated and lasted about three hours, although one of the brothers was not present. We did have tea and bread and I got to see a very large farm at work.<\/p>\n

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Large farm<\/p><\/div>\n

Ali, my guide in the tour of Fes, had told me then that hypocrisy is one of the worst sins in Islam and that families and disputes need to be talked through in detail. <\/p>\n

I think this particular feud over 2 metres of land may have gone too far for this, but I hope the two brothers can sit down and talk to each other soon, even just for the sake of their wives and children. The debate, as I say, was very heated and I was a bit embarrassed to see a man at his wits’ end over this feud. Kamal asked me to speak to him and I offered my best Arabic to say that I hoped Allah would help them get through this and resolve the brothers’ dispute.<\/div>\n

Personally I think that for all the hassle involved, to keep the peace I would have rebuilt the outdoor staircase on the other side of the house, but it would mean a lot of work. Even so, for me this would save a lot of heartache.<\/p>\n

We returned back to Kamal’s house for a chicken tagine and stayed up while papa and the guy from the market talked about the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) until gone midnight.<\/p>\n

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