A photo of the Atlas Mountains near Agadir, Morocco.

I have just returned from two weeks in Morocco. I want to pretend it was for research on a new novel or travel blog. But it wasn’t. It was just a holiday with my wife. When I was here, I had a conversation. It wasn’t much of a discussion. I mostly listened to this expert on social media presence and how to succeed in said subject. On the question of BLOGS, his hypothesis was that in order to gain followers and be an influencer one must post at least once a day, with photographs or some form of art or design to reinforce your message. I struggle to post once a month, so seven times a week is out of the question. And as for photographs, well, what would I snap?

I did have a look at his blog, I won’t mention names, but it was terrible. No interesting content, just content for content’s sake. ,,,and the photos were rubbish as well. When I looked at his followers, they were mostly women with pay-per-view websites, if you know what I mean. I was not impressed.

Anyway, about the holiday. Week one was sunny and hot. Week two started with cloud until lunch time and sun in the afternoon. The last two days saw no sun at all. The food was quite good. The wine was nice. The staff were superb. However, one particular waiter liked to tell the clientele off for wanting things. So we didn’t sit in his area of the restaurant again. The worst part was however the squits. My long-suffering wife and I both had a severe case of the squits. We were afraid to leave the hotel most days as we needed to be close to the toilet. The food there seemed lovely, always a good selection and always hot. The wine was fine, we didn’t take ice in our drinks or eat salad. But somehow we had a whole week of running to the toilet.

We did enjoy most of it, in particular a trip to the Atlas Mountains. (See photos above.) However, we won’t be going to Agadir again. Ever. We may do a city break to Marrakesh one day, I hear they have an excellent market there.

Anyway, we’re back now, the grass has been cut and the weeds suppressed again. Back to normality.

Toodle-pip.

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