{"id":26449,"date":"2019-03-26T13:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=26449"},"modified":"2019-03-26T13:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:57:28","slug":"day-477-to-day-480-ben-mansour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/day-477-to-day-480-ben-mansour\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 477 to Day 480 – Ben mansour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 477 to 480                                         9th to 12th November
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Ben Mansour<\/span><\/p>\n

3 days of working and relaxing with Kamal <\/p>\n

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Loading a trailer<\/p><\/div>\n

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Installing a water heater<\/p><\/div>\n

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Driving<\/p><\/div>\n

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watching football<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sociable meal<\/p><\/div>\n

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12th November<\/p>\n

Day off the bike again but I did go out on Younes new bike for a test run.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nI got up at 7.30 to my phone alarm barking like a dog, which for a while I thought was a dog as there are so many barking through the night. (The boys play with my phone at every opportunity so I never know what they will change next)<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to Kamal\u2019s but he was still asleep so I went for a walk and then back to the room to pack. I was soon joined by Younes and Aman who continued to badger me into staying longer. We had brekkie of olives and harsha bread with tea. <\/span><\/p>\n

Then I went to the souk with Kamal and Younes and bought a good bike for Younes for 450dirham. We did all the shopping in the souk, buying vegetables and live chickens, which weren\u2019t alive for long as I watched their throats cut and then put in boiling water before plucking and bagging. That\u2019s what I call fresh.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Returning in the Cameo<\/p><\/div>\n

I bought some more gifts and came back to the house in the back of Aziz\u2019s Cameo and had beef kebabs. I took Younes\u2019s bike to the river with Aman on the crossbar before going for a walk with Kamal where we met Hamid and carried on to watch the sunset. I saw a potential house to buy and Kamal offered to find me a wife to go with it! <\/span>We went to Hamid\u2019s house for tea and fish where Kamal put Hamid’s daughter forward as a possible wife. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Younes with his new bike<\/p><\/div>\n

Back at the house I insisted we clear the patisserie of rubbish and have a big fire. It was brilliant sitting around the fire with the whole family and then we had a tagine and fruit. Kamal and I sat by the fire discussing my future life in Morocco after they had convinced me to stay another day. In bed by 11 and feeling good after a great day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bonfire<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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