GS and Atom to Morocco in November 2007

[John Lloyd]

Hi, new here. A friend is taking his GS and I'm in my Atom. We've booked the ferry Plymouth to Santandar for 29th October and back on the 28th November. We have nothing else booked other than the first night in Spain. We plan to spend a week in Spain mainly in the south and then head into Morocco. This site seems mad for Morocco. I see there is a trip planned for the same time we are out there.

I'm wanting to find out about great roads and routes in both Southern Spain and Morocco.

Also if anyone else is going at the same time do you want to exchange mobile phone numbers and we could hook up for part of the time.

Our blog is

http://atombmwexpedition.blogspot.com/

I plan to take the Atom with the Moroccan flag on it will this be OK?

Do not think the normal bonnet will be acceptable!

 

[John Lloyd]

One thing I forgot to ask about is over night security when parking. I've seen in a video clip bikes driving into hotels!! Do you leave the bikes outside? How safe is it? I've got a cover for the car which I will use.

 

[demito]

Look at my homepage and you will find plenty of downloadable tracks with pics. This should give you an idea of what you can expect. For all options click the menu button (track details etc...)

http://users.pandora.be/spog

Have fun

T

 

[araspitfire]

That is one cool website! A truly awesome way to publish a trip report.

Al...

 

[Fanum]

You will have so much fun in that Atom

Haven't got my maps and route logs in front of me right now, but look up a road between Talouine and Tafraoute.....it's 80 odd miles of pure twisty tarmac with superb cambers- hardly any traffic and awesome views.

Stay at the Amandiers in Tafroaute, then head towards Agadir on the r105 throuogh Ait Baha.......another 80 odd miles of twisty that runs high along a valley wall.....sheer drop offs, minimal barriers and you can see miles along the road at some points so if you're good, you can commit to lots of blind overtakes

thinking about the talouine to tafrate road, i'm pretty sure that's the r106.

Also...definitely do the tizi n test and the Tizi n tichka........the road from tata to the coast is a lovely desert road and in a car like that, I'd want to do Ouazazarte to zagora as well (and go to mhamid if you want to see the arsehole of the world, last stop on the road before nothing for 1000 miles frontier town!)

dammit......I'd like to take that thing down some of the roads we do !!!!!

Gimme a call if you like and I'll sit there with some maps in front of me and we can go through some more bits.

PS We'll be there in November as well.......the staff go out on the 8th oct and come back on the 9th december and the actual tour is 16th to 27th november, so keep your eyes open for us

Bill

PS you gotta do the daades as well....go all the way as far as you can rather than stopping at the cafe atthe top of the pic below and you'll find yourself driving round the top of some gorges that look like the grand canyon

 

[John Lloyd]

Thanks for the info Bill. I will get my friend to ring (Nigel) he's got the GS so you can talk shop there and he's doing the planning as I'm off to the USA for a 3 day long Atom event next week.

If anyone's intrested http://www.atomfest.us/index.asp

I wish we had found this site earlier so much information on here.

 

[demito]

That is one cool website! A truly awesome way to publish a trip report.

Al...

I presume you mean my i-spog page. I know. It's just strange that not more UKGSERs visit my site. I have plenty of visitors from BE, Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France etc... with plenty of positive comments. Here it is a bit less of a "hype"...

You guys probably want to stick to prehistoric html

T

 

[davidgibson999]

I presume you mean my i-spog page. I know. It's just strange that not more UKGSERs visit my site. I have plenty of visitors from BE, Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France etc... with plenty of positive comments. Here it is a bit less of a "hype"...

You guys probably want to stick to prehistoric html

T

I just found your site this morning - it's fantastic -great pics and info. I'm planning a solo trip to morocco april 08 so it's nice to put photos to placenames!
Thanks
David

 

[araspitfire]

I presume you mean my i-spog page. I know. It's just strange that not more UKGSERs visit my site. I have plenty of visitors from BE, Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France etc... with plenty of positive comments. Here it is a bit less of a "hype"...

You guys probably want to stick to prehistoric html

T

I'd love to bone up on how to do some of the things you do on that page... did you write it all yourself? Which language?

Al...

 

[demito]

did you write it all yourself?
Al...

Yep.

T

 

[John Lloyd]

A quick up date. Unfortuantly we are already back, due to business commitments for the GS biker we have had to return. The trip was still fantastic in brief

day 1 to Plymouth and ferry to Santander. 202 miles
day 2 Santander to Soria. 221 miles
day 3 Soria to Cordoda. 391 miles
day 4 Cordoda to Traifa ferry. 213 miles
day 4 Tanger to Tetouan. 56 miles
Day 5 Tetouan to Fes. 126 miles
Day 6 Rest day in Fes
Day 7 Fes to Marrakech. 398 miles
Day 8 Marrakech, via Ouklameden to Rabat. 307 miles
Day 9 Rabat to Tanger Ferry. 156 miles
Day 9 Tarifa Ferry to Gerena, NW of Sevilla 156 miles
Day 10 Gerena, NW of Sevilla to Plasencia 228 miles
Day 11 Plasencia toCervera De Pisvergce 258 miles
Day 12 Cervera De Pisvergce to Santander Ferry 92 miles
Day 13 Plymouth Ferry to friends in Plymouth 4 miles
Day 14 Friends Plymouth to Ariel Factory, Nr Crewkerene 82 miles

Total 2957 miles (It will be over 3,000 once I get the car home from the factory.)

 

[Rushy]

Yep.

T

That is superb and very clever.

Can you make a similar site for other people to use . Easy to update with new trips etc. ?

What do you use to log the location of your pictures?


Ian R

 

[John Lloyd]

Visit our blog

http://atombmwexpedition.blogspot.com/


Some photos from the trip

Day 2 engaged already!

Day 3 It always attracts a crowd.

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Day 4 It's time to get on a ferry and head for Africa

Day 5 I don't think I can get that many camels back into the UK

Day 6 THe medina in Fes

Day 7 Camels at last

Oh shit!

Day 8 Jump leads used to start the Atom. Grips only at one end of each lead, the bellboy held the bare ends on the Atom battery and with smoke poring off the terminals the car roared into life.

The end of the road at Oukalmeden, 4,000m

Day 9 Skinny dipping at 7am in the Hilton, Rabat

Day 10 An Atom in a bullring

Day 11 More bull this time a live, just!

Day 12 Santander

Day 13 On the ferry home

Day 14 The "new" Moroccan owner takes delivery of his car!