We arrived into Marrakesh, picked up a hire car, had some lunch and then decided to stop off to take a photo of E-1455 with TLR 622 Marrakesh - Fes "Al Atlas" service before heading to explore the city a little. We parked behind some trucks in what seemed to be a quiet corner of the city just near the station exit and 10 minutes later we had taken a photo of the Prima as it started its journey. Upon returning to the car is where the fun started.

We rounded the corner to see no car... I'd sometimes worried about this happening before but the true realisation that the car had gone hit quite hard! In a bit of a panic myself and my wife ran across to a petrol station at the far side of the road to see if anyone had seen anything. A man on a motorbike pointed to where the car had been and made a gesture of a steering wheel then pointed up the road. He then proceeded to encourage me onto the bike and we sped off up the road. At this point I was quite desperate to have a chance at finding where the car had gone so clinging onto the chap for dear life on a motorbike older than me didn't seem the worst option at the time. After a mile of so we pulled up at a big metal gate which turned out to be an impound, could the car be here? After a bit of back and forth I took a walk into the pound to find our Kia sat there next to a tow truck. You can imagine the relief.

To cut a long story short we had to pay about £35 to get it out and had a chat with a friendly police man who explained some of the parking rules. The man who had brought me to the impound had gone back for my wife and didn't want any money for his trouble but given he had most likely saved us hours of panic I insisted. Definitely an experience to remember and one to learn from for future trips but overall it showed the kindness and Moroccans which was something found all the way through our trip.

Beautiful foto!

Thank you.