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29 April 2011

Monday 25th - The Hitchhikers' Dinner

By now, I'd been trying to sleep unsuccessfully on night coaches for three days, so when we arrived at our hostel in Marrakesh at 6 AM, we checked in and slumped into our beds until about 11 AM. We then rendezvoused with Aguet's sister, Adau, who is also on the Hitch and explored the town for a few hours. Nat and I tired of browsing the shops quite quickly and parted with the two sisters to search for excursions into the desert that we could set up for ourselves. In one twenty-minute period we kept bumping into other hitchers, so we had the idea of exchanging phone numbers and inviting them and any hitchers they find over the course of the day to come for a big group meal in the town square at eight-thirty this evening.

Later, we texted around a meeting place and waited for people to show up. Forty-five minutes later, there were about twenty of us all sat at a restaurant, swapping stories. It turns out that most of them had to resort to cheating over Easter weekend, which was reassuring to find that it isn't just us that are crap. Another reassurance was that it wasn't only us to fall victim to the expensive caftan with hospitality scam in Tangier. After paying for the meal, we all went up to the rooftop of someone's hostel to continue chatting and planned going on an excursion to a waterfall in a valley of the Atlas Mountains, as many of us had arrived in Marrakesh too late to have time for the trek out into the desert that would take two full days.

As the night wound down, Aguet went to help her sister Adau move hostels and Nat and I went to bed.

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