Distance: 10.6 km Ride time: 38:26 Average: 17.9 km/h Max speed: 31.7 km/h Total: 54027 km I feel like I have been saying goodbye to Africa a few times now, including the day I cycled into Cairo, the day I visited the Pyramids of Giza, and yesterday when I cycled into Tanger with Manon. This [ Read More ]
Distance: 46.2 km Ride time: 2:34:48 Average: 17.9 km/h Max speed: 39.2 km/h Total: 54016 km Less than 50 kilometers separated us from “finishing Africa” as we had breakfast in Asilah in the morning. Morocco is not a place where they like to get up early. We left town at 9:30 and everybody was very [ Read More ]
Distance: 88.9 km Ride time: 5:25:30 Average: 16.4 km/h Max speed: 43.6 km/h Total: 53970 km Once again the day started on some rather remote roads of varying quality after attempting a short cut. Well, everything worked out fine – in fact I much preferred those small roads compared to the highway we had to [ Read More ]
Distance: 76.0 km Ride time: 5:21:34 Average: 14.2 km/h Max speed: 28.4 km/h Total: 53881 km We left Kenitra early and was in for a bit of adventure on the rural roads of Morocco. Trying to avoid the busy A5 highway was a fine enough idea, in fact I’m not even sure if you are [ Read More ]
Distance: 40.3 km Ride time: 2:16:56 Average: 17.7 km/h Max speed: 37.4 km/h Total: 53805 km We had been staying at a hotel in the modern part of Rabat and went for a walk around the neighborhood in the morning. With wide boulevards and fancy restaurants and shops, this area of Rabat reminds me of [ Read More ]
Distance: 95.1 km Ride time: 6:07:18 Average: 15.5 km/h Max speed: 29.9 km/h Total: 53765 km Morocco is country number 51 by bike, and off we went into the Casablanca morning traffic. Compared to the stone throwing kids of Ethiopia and the heat and police escorts in Egypt, the first impression of Morocco is that [ Read More ]
The boarding of my Tunisair flight to Casablanca was quite the show. The plane was full of an older generation of traditionally dressed Arabs who didn’t seem to be accustomed to flying. The simple act of finding your seat and keep sitting down until take-off was not easy for the poor flight attendants to explain. [ Read More ]
