15-19 March - in Skoura at 123Soleil guesthouse

The palm grove of Skoura is probably the largest in Marocco and it is Unesco protected.

Under the green canopy og 1000 palms, a 7 km long patchwork of carefully tended garden plots are watered by an ingenious, centuries-old khettara system of locks, levers and canals.

View from the terrace on the first floor at 1.2.3.Soleil, Saâdia and Hassans guesthouse, where we are back for a couple of nights.   We feel well there and spend long moments with Hassan himself, neighbour Aziz and young Mohammed, who survived a car accident.

They would like to see us move into the house next to Isabelle and Charles on one side and ‘Les Bretons’ on the other side.   The exterior walls are standing.  Mud brick, of course and there is electricity already.

Water is said to be just another four meters down ....