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I've heard of stone throwing by kids when they are ignored when begging ? But no first hand knowledge
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I've heard of stone throwing by kids when they are ignored when begging ? But no first hand knowledge
vwalan
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used to happen alot years ago. thats one of the reasons many fitted steel guards to cover side windows etc .
mind morocco was a far different place back a few years ago.
got spoilt by tourists deciding not to pay 2 dirham to park but pay 10 dirham for a pretend guardian.
mind morocco was a far different place back a few years ago.
got spoilt by tourists deciding not to pay 2 dirham to park but pay 10 dirham for a pretend guardian.
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we got threatened to have our windscreens smashed by a number of lads on mopeds when in Fez camping, they thought we'd dissed them when they offered to help us , and were revving aggressively around the camping entrance . i went out and had a natter with them, they'd got it wrong and were very apologetic about it - nice bunch of lads
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been going since 1976 . mind did go in 1965 with my parents in a vw camper.
i find the locals great people once you get to know them.
speaking a few words arabic helps .
my youngest lad worked for one of the shops over there one year when we were there mind he speaks german ,french and spanish , with some portugese .
the moroccans know him as diqspilla or something like that as he kept singing a moroccan nursery song . he was good at getting tourists into the carpet shops .
unfortunately it changed too much after about 2005 ish . just got too popular with tourists from europe.
in the 70,s if you got twenty campers on taghazoute beach it was alot.
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Happens in the Rif mainly on the road to/from the Ceuta ferry. The kids will flag you down or even put
themselves in danger to get you to stop, usually on the winding slow stretches of road, expecting bonbons (sweeets)
or scriptos (biros), if you don't oblige there's a chance a few stones will be lobbed your way. The new
motorways mean that most tourists probably avoid the experience these days.
And this was one of the adult ruses;
Sometimes on the quieter stretches of road leading to the ferry ports there was a reasonable chance of
being flagged down by a senior cop and a side kick or two, as he sort of perused your documents he'd
be attempting to hard sell you police lottery tickets all in Arabic, no French, naturally the drawer date
was a at least a month away, as soon as you bought some you were on your way, if you didn't you
could expect a couple of hours of hassle, all very friendly.