Morocco

Many years ago my partner Benny & I gave up our lives in the city, bought a van and went off travelling around Europe. We ended up in the Costa Del Sol for the winter and met another couple Richard and Jenny who had been living on the road for years. They were buskers who lived from day to day. Often bars would let them perform but only offer them drinks as payment. We became and friends and they took us to places we would never have found ourselves to camp and we spent Christmas and New Year with them. We decided to come back to the UK for 6 months, replace our vehicle for a larger van like theirs and off we went again. It had not been planned but we ended up in Spain again around the Autumn. Journeying along the coast we asked various travellers if they had seen these two but no one knew of them. We didn't really feel like spending another winter in Spain and wanted more adventure so in November we headed to Morocco without any specific travel plans. We went through the forests, just got through the mountain before the snow barriers went down, into the sahara and by late December decided to head towards the coast. We had given up looking for our friends as they were quite heavy drinkers and never saved money so it was highly unlikely they we be in Morocco! We arrived in Agadir on Christmas eve, found somewhere to park and headed into the city centre to find a bank as we needed some cash. We were at the ATM and my partner got a tap on the shoulder and I heard a voice say "Benny". We turned around and low and behold there was Richard! We could not believe it. It was astonishing! If we had been there even just a few minutes earlier or later we would have missed him. Now we were all together again for Christmas and New Year and not just them but his brother, who had paid for them to get there, and his girlfriend and a whole bunch of people instead of spending it by ourselves. This chance encounter actually transformed the rest of our time there as we all stuck together and travelled around with each other for the rest of our trip. Life is extraordinary!