Marrakech Express Rally
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Date Change for Marrakech Express 2015
Due to a clash of events in April we have decided to change the dates of the Marrakech Express. The new dates are March 30 to April 13. The rally is, as before, starting and finishing in Malaga, Spain as there are frequent flights to Malaga. Call Finella on 01420 478304 if you would like more […]
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Alastair Caldwell to defend title
Alastair Caldwell, winner of the first Marrakech Express, has confirmed that he will defend his title in 2015. Hayden Burvill was his navigator in 2014 but no navigator has been announced for 2015.
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Marrakech Express Rally featured by the Daily Mail
British newspaper The Daily Mail featured the Marrakech Express Rally on its website. Click to see the story with glorious photos of the 2CVs and the spectacular scenery.
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The last day: Chefchaouen to Malaga
Today we had an incredibly early start: 5 am wake up, 5.15 breakfast, leaving Chefchaoen in the pitch black at just past 5.30. The views last night had been stunning but now we were all rather stunned getting up at this time and making our way back to Tangier and eventually on to Malaga. A long […]
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Day eleven: Midelt to Fes
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Day twelve: Fes to Chefchaouen
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Day ten: Merzouga to Midelt
Whilst we were sad to be leaving the desert, we now had to focus on another long journey ahead of us with a 460 km drive to Midelt. Instead of carrying straight on at Erfoud and taken the ‘main’ road north to Midelt we turned west and on to Tineghir and the Todra Gorge. We passed by or through...
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Day Nine: Desert day off
At about 5.45 am we were woken up by our hosts, rapping on the little blackboards hanging outside each tent, reminding us that it was time to get up and out for our camel ride. I had been slightly hesitant about this trek the previous evening, having been warned that being up close and personal...
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New video of the 2014 Marrakech Express Rally
Below is a video comilation of footage from this year’s rally. See the 2CVs amidst the glory and majesty of the Moroccan landscape.
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Day Eight – Ouarzazate to Merzouga
Toby greeted us in the morning with a cheery “hello” telling us that ” the boys did an amazing job last night putting in a new engine and gearbox ….bashed everything straight and made her look a bit more respectable!” It was good to hear. With 377 kilometres to drive today, it would have been a […]
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Day Six: Marrakech rest day
Unfortunately the heavens really did open during our brief stay in Marrakech but a number of the competitors braved the weather and took a stroll into the Jemaa el Fna and to try their hand at bartering in the souks. A couple of others took the opportunity to go to the Majorelle Gardens...
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Day Seven: Marrakech to Ouarzazate
After a most amazing breakfast everyone was fully refreshed and fortified and raring to get back on the road for our journey on the old caravan route, up through the High Atlas mountains via the jaw-dropping Tizi-n-Tichka pass and eventually winding down into Ouarzazate, the film-making capital...
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Day Four: Meknes to Beni Mallal
Leaving the hotel in full sunshine our route-book navigates us on to the open road but via the old city’s narrow streets, past the ceremonial and decorative Bab Mansour gates where traffic is being directed by the very smartly uniformed policeman and the roads are being swept by men with large...
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Day Five: Beni Mallal to Marrakech
Beni Mallal is one of Morocco’s fastest growing towns located between Fez and Marrakech and en-route to the Middle Atlas mountains so the Hotel Ouzoude proved to be a convenient stop-over outside of the city. The food the previous evening had been a substantial and tasty chicken tagine… but the...
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The view from a rally novice: Day One – Canterbury to Malaga
By way of introduction; my name is Jo Skelton. I have never been on a rally before so this blog will be a record of experiences through the eyes of a novice but will also include the thoughts and comments of fellow (and on the whole, far more experienced)rally-goers. My husband, Simon is bit of...
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Day Two – Malaga to Tangier: practice day
After a good night’s sleep we headed off to set up our Time Control (TC) for our first regularity event just outside Malaga. My first initiation to the wonderful world of rallying is to realise that a ‘tulip’ is no longer just a flower….It is in fact a little diagram that provides a snapshot of […]
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Day Three – Tangier to Mekness
After a buffet-style breakfast in one of Tangier more established hotels where we spent our first night in Morocco, Rod Kirkpatrick and Alex Broadway, the rally’s official film crew jumped in their hire car and made their way back to the port to await some good photo opportunities of the 2CVs...