Time to kill (a customs official)
Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007, 3:48 PM by Lonely Planet
Day 5: Delays are part of the game in any overland rally - the Wheelers kill some time.
Tuesday 6 February
Europe to Africa by ferry may only take 45 minutes, but you then kill two hours waiting for the Moroccan customs to get around to performing five minutes of paperwork. Finally we roll out of the dock compound, pull dirhams out of an ATM and spend €50-worth buying 10-days' car insurance. Then it's out onto the autoroute and south to Rabat, with a steady procession of oncoming drivers flashing their headlights to warn of a quite amazing number of radar speed traps.
Tuesday 6 February
Europe to Africa by ferry may only take 45 minutes, but you then kill two hours waiting for the Moroccan customs to get around to performing five minutes of paperwork. Finally we roll out of the dock compound, pull dirhams out of an ATM and spend €50-worth buying 10-days' car insurance. Then it's out onto the autoroute and south to Rabat, with a steady procession of oncoming drivers flashing their headlights to warn of a quite amazing number of radar speed traps.
- Tony Wheeler
Track progress and view a map of the route here.
Labels: Plymouth to Banjul Challenge 2007
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