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Stewart

Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:43:07 +1300

Re Morocco – I spent 4 weeks there in early 1978 and it was a blast! We were just a VW-kombi full of youngsters all keen to smoke loads of hash and see Morocco.
We drove from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta down & across going through Tetouan, Casablanca, Rabat & Essaouira…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:13:09 +1300

can I use the LAV?
a photo of one of the things we weren’t allowed to photograph....
Great (or is it grate?) that you also caught the overbearing baleful batrachian gate guardians, one in full wide-mouth frog form!
Like painting gun emplacements in butterfly wings...

Sofie Bribiesca

Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:05:53 +1300

Love your last 3 shots Emma. Particularly the Donkey and it's setting.

Ethan Tucker

Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:33:17 +1300

Wish we'd gone on a guided tour in Syria. The service taxi ride from Amman to Damascus in 2008 was hair-raising. At one point the driver was texting on two phones at once and steering the car with one knee. He also overtook on the dirt verge while doing 160km/h.…

Hebe

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:26:59 +1300

In my yoof I would have rather crawled over broken glass than go on a guided tour. Now — whether it's wisdom or loss of bottle — I would seriously consider it for some parts of the world. I have always loosely planned a route based on things I wanted…

Emma Hart

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:45:33 +1300

I didn’t deal nearly so well with the Arab world

I am glad we chose to go with a guided tour, particularly in Egypt. Not only was it more secure, it meant we weren't wasting energy on customs and taxis and dodgy guides.

But I started to get sick towards…

Hebe

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:31:02 +1300

Thanks for doing the hard yards for us Emma! Great windows into other worlds. I didn't deal nearly so well with the Arab world: I would gather a pile of oranges, some rough bread and a good book and hole up in the room for a couple of days and…

Emma Hart

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:43:52 +1300

Hey, I’m even reluctant to travel to America with all there border control rules at the moment.

See, I wouldn't do that either. And there was nearly a slight fracas in the last night of the tour when I said I wouldn't go to Israel. I probably wouldn't have gone…

JacksonP

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:18:10 +1300

Nice to have your photos here Emma. Thanks. I lack the gene for travelling to global hot spots. Hey, I’m even reluctant to travel to America with all their border control rules at the moment.

Glad someone else is allowing us the chance to live vicariously. :-)

Public Address

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:18:09 +1300

Discussion from blog post.