Christmas market in Metz, with the xmas tree ride on right
In the morning at one of our random aires....
The main motorway - uphill too - thank goodness for full snow tyres!
Yep - minus 18.2'C outside....
Our home for the next month or so.
Valloire from the one of the cable cars...
The windy road to Valloire.... All up hill, and all covered in ice/snow. Snow tyres AND chains needed....
Mel on ski lift ready to board
Ryan kitted up ready to go
Our route to Valloire
Mel in front of giant snow Father Christmas - almost ready
Typical meal out, Mel with a large beer - and don't let the salad fool you - it was only a starter
Us set to go on the cable car
Our campsite!
Mel in Valloire, xmas market on left
Valloire
Valloire at Xmas
Guess who has been drinking....
Our van....
Its been snowing....
Mel and all her presents
Ryan and all his presents
Mel - raring to go on Boxing day...
Ryan - kitted and iching to hit the slopes!
Empty slopes on boxing day - but beautiful day!
Mel in disguise
Stunning views....
No one else in my playground!
Mel hanging on a lift...
Mel boarding
Weeeee - Mel boarding
Mel on her first red run
Happy new year!
Mel playing
Clever ice sculputre - "card stack"
Face in ice
Ice sculputre
Ice piste basher
All scuptures
The mountains, still snowy but still fairly empty
Part of the boarder-cross course
Snow scuplture
Ice sculpture
A lake of low clouds in the mountains.
Snowpark jumps
Half pipe with rails on right
Mel airborne ish
Oops - how not to do it.
Big-ish air - but who is she waving to?
Ryan airborne
Ryan flying
Ryan landing head first and backwards
View from chairlift - distant snow lacking
Last day in Valloire
Route of end of week 8
Mel in Cognin-les-Gorges
Cognin-les-Gorges
Pont-en-Royans
Viviers
Interesing plaque in Aigues-Mortes
Aigues-Mortes - walls to the old city
Sete - the nice part we missed on a previous trip.
Béziers from outside
Gruissan old town and castle
Typical street in Gruissan
Gruissan
View from Gruissan "castle"
Route end of week 9
Narbonne
Mel flying the kite
Food!
Us having food
The view from where we were staying in Saint-Cyprien-Plage
Birthday meal in Saint-Cyprien-Plage
Argelès Plage
Mel kiting in Argelès Plage
Besalú
Roman ruins in Empúries
A greek statue Empúries
Greek ruins (not Mel) in Empúries
walled medieval village of Peratallada
Week 10
Seaside town of Lloret de Mar with a colourful tiled church
Lloret de Mar
View up top of the monistary at Montserrat
View from top of the monistary at Montserrat
Bascilica at Montserrat
Virgin Mary statue, apparently
Busy Basilica - we left before the party started
Us with monistary at Montserrat in background (what is with the 60's architects!!)
View from top
Morella
View from Morella with aire in the centre (distant)
View from Morella
Morella at night from the aire
Random hill-top castle as seen when driving
Mel at top of castle in Jalance
Ryan in Ubeda
Rough route of our week 11 trip
Ryan at top of Sierra Nevada
Ceuta and a very stormy sea! Worse than it looks.
Mel, dad, and a borrowed dog in "Sunny" Martil
Rough route of week 9
Martil-->Chefchaouene drive: Hay lorry at sheep sale
Martil-->Chefchaouene drive: Cattle sale at side of road
Martil-->Chefchaouene drive: Car rolled into ditch....
Martil-->Chefchaouene drive: Taking goats for a walk
Martil-->Chefchaouene drive:
Martil-->Chefchaouene drive: Frequent sight
Martil-->Chefchaouene drive: Rolled articulated lorry....
Chefchaouene - the blue city. Lovely place...
Would you trust this cashpoint...?
Chefchaouene: Chickens, live or dead for sale
Mel in Chefchaouene main square.
Chefchaouene
Chefchaouene (part of) from Ramparts
View from walk near camp area in Chefchaouene
Mel and Hazel pole-dancing in Chefchaouene (restaurant)
Mel, Hazel and Barry in Chefchaouene (restaurant)
View from restaurant over Chefchaouene square
Chefchaouene (restaurant)
One of many working donkeys
Wide load ahead.
Lunch....
On walk near our camping place in Volubillis
Moulay Idriss in the distance
Roman ruins at Volubillis
Meknès main city gate
Meknès square with cafes
Meknès
Meknès market
Jewish gate in Fes
Panoramic view of Fes
Hand made, hand powered pottery making
Artists (aka hoodies!) hand painting everything
Hand cutting small mosaic tiles
Mosaic for fountain (up side down) - tiny accurate pieces
Busy Fes Souks
Anyone hungry? Very fresh.....
Fes Souk (parents in background...)
Souk with donkey trasnport
Mosque
Mel being model of desert turban
Mel being model of desert turban - good way to keep her quiet!
Waiter!
Mosque in Fes
Tannery in Fes (hold nose....)
Fes tannery - no bright colours this week...
Us with carved lion (WW2 POW) in Ifrane
Very very rough route of Week 13
Following our Unimog support truck into the mountains
Lovely weather in Morocco!
Where is the sun!?
From this....
...to this
Moroccan, erm, things
Atlas mountains in backgrond
Overloaded?
N13 towards Source Bleue de Meski
Lunch stop on N13 towards Source Bleue de Meski
Sisters
Barry, Hazel, Ryan and Mel
N13
Dad on N13
Lovely blue lake off N13
"Hidden" oasis with grass and trees (just of N13!)
VIllage of Meski
Oasis in the desert
Meski Oasis
Garden room of "Benny"
View over top of Meski village
Mel crossing the raging torrents on a palm-tree bridge
Old Meski Kasbar
Mel in the desert
Meski oasis
Us in the Sahara with ravine oasis behind
Ryan in Meski desert
Our African entertainment
Diva Mel
Mel & Hazel dancing
African School
Oasis in a ravine
Fossil Factory
Fossil Factory - oops - they cracked it!
Our support Unimog
Desert track - Sahara
Erg Chebbie dunes
Lone tree near Erg Chebbie dunes
Sisters in Erg Chebbie dunes
Sahara Shadows
Ryan & his dad, not windy enough to kite
Ryan in Sahara
Barry & Camel
Tour friends in Erg Chebbie dunes
Sahara Shadows...
Mel
Ryan
Our camel Caravan
Moonrise over Erg Chebbie dunes
Berber camp in Erg Chebbie dunes
Berber camp
Sultan Dad
King Barry & Hazel
Drums around the campfire
Night photo from Berber camp, dune and stars
Barry & Hazel waking up (just)
Sun about to rise in Sahara
Sun about to rise
Mel at sunrise
Us seconds before Sahara sunrise
Dad before Sahara Sunrise
Wow!
Ryan, Hazel, Barry and Mel enjoying the new day
Shadows
Hazel
Dad
Rocky Sahara
Lone tree....
Nomadic bedroom
Nomadic house - with solar power lol!
Baby goats
Bless....
Goats and chicken - both on menu shortly no doubt
"wild" camels (and baby)
Cobalt mine
Rocks mined
Photo from 4x4 trip around Erg Chebbie dunes
Ooops. One of ours. Even the spare was flat!!
Good live music from 4x4 trip around Erg Chebbie dunes
Live music from 4x4 trip around Erg Chebbie dunes
Dad Dancing....
The genuine way of life...
Random Photo from 4x4 trip around Erg Chebbie dunes
Moonrise over the Sahara
Dinosaur and fossils at side of road
Sahara view
Giant moles! (aka spoil heaps from man made water tunnels)
Looks like Arizona!!!
Sahara
Museam of water/springs/nomads
Coin bag art
Water carriers
Nomad carrying baskets
Africa! Road from Erford to Gorges du Todra
Africa! Gorges du Todra
Very rough map of Week 14
Us in the Sahara
View from campsite at Gorges du Todra
Drive through Gorges du Todra
Gorges du Todra
Drive to Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate main square at night
Drive to Marrakesh
Telounet
Making home at Telouet
Telouet kasbah
Telouet Kasbah
View from kasbah
Kasbah
Cows on upper-deck!
Drive to Marrakesh - Tiz n’Tichka pass
Drive to Marrakesh - back to plush green
Plush greenary on drive to Marrakesh
Mel in Marrakesh
Marrakesh
Marrakesh - Bada palace
Marrakesh - tombs
Marrakesh - Tombs
Marrakesh soldier :)
Marrakesh city walls
Marrakesh old city walls
Marrakesh - Ahhhhh
Marrakesh Square
Marrakesh at night
Essaouira
Essaouira drinks with Mel and parents
Dinner at Le Patio
Drive from Essaouira up atlantic coast
Ryan teaching Dad to kite...
El-Jadida
Rough route of week 15
VIew from El-Jadidad fortifications
El-Jadidad
El Jadidad
Locals Fish market in El Jadidad
B&Q Delivery - Moroccan style
58.2'c in the sun - bit of a change from -18....
Yeah yeah - I was tired
Tangier to Ceuta drive
El Rocio in Spain - worth a revisit
El Rocio
Don't ask...
BBQ
Yummy - farewell BBQ with B&H
Rough route of week 16
Mel in Alte, Portugal
The fall of he vicar, alt
Mel likes her men big :)
Silves
Silves castle at night
Caldas de Monchique
Ryan in Foia
Top of Foia
Barragem at Ourique for overnight parking
Barragem at Ourique - large "overflow" hole - like Prisoner!!
Barragem at Ourique
Pretty Portel
View from top of castle at Portel
Evora
Evora Aqueduct
One of the many bridges around Coruche
The very neat and interesting Obidos
Obidos
Obidos - missed chocolate festival! :(
Peniche
View from our wildcamp spot in Peniche
Us hiding away....
Beach at Nazare
Nazare art.
Rough route of week 17
