Had planned to go to the Grand Mosque first thing this morning (being open to non-Muslims only between 8-11am) but a torrential downpour squashed that so we went shopping instead. Visited another small souk near the house and came home laden with gifts and goodies. Also went for shwarma lunch with our nephews and visited an Indian "Hypermarket" 15 minutes away. Fascinating foods there, inluding goat parts we'd never eat....
Later in the day Edward went with the rest of the "boys" to go "dune bashing". When it rains here the sand on the dunes near town becomes quite hard and easy to drive on so the locals have a habit of going up and driving around all over the top of them in all manner of crazy. They took the old land rover and the toyota echo and roared around for a while... The land rover normally attracts some attention because it is an old British SAS ambulance and a very handsome car, however, the Echo is not something normally seen dune bashing and was the object of numerous comments and honks. So off they took, roaring around climbing and decending the sand hills, swerving around erratically, and generally bounding all about. Much fun for those inclinded in this way I was told. The grins on their faces when they came in said it all....
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