black1100
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Our real adventure began
We (phil + Lisa) left Marakesh early Sunday morning with the idea of making Tangiers by mid afternoon.
It wasn't to be
At around mid day my 1150 developed a fault with the front breaks, throwing me off at 75MPH down the motorway between Casablanca and Rabat. By some mirical all the cars missed me and my kit did a fantastic job, though i sustained a broken right collerbone in the initial fall.
The Moroccan health care system then kicked in as it took 6 hours to get me to the hospital that was 10 miles away.
Disaster tunrned to Farce when, whilst following the ambulance, lisa's engine went bang big time
So what finally arrived at the hospital was an ambulance with me in the front, and lisa and 6 cases of luggage in the back
I'll cut it short from here... 2 days in a great hospital thanks to travel insurance, followed by 2 days getting me,lisa and knackerd bike back to Tangiers and over border (another story). BMW take bike off us and taxi us to Maliga from where we flew to Manachester on thursday.
So we left home with 2 BMWs and loads of luggage in september, returned last week with a box of pain killers and a couple of bags of dirty washing
Finally.. Bill... Thank you for hanging on in Morocco, and returning to rescue us from Casablanca. In our hour of need you came through
Brian.... you'll be getting a lot more than tyres from us when Bill arrives, he has all my panniers and kit too
We (phil + Lisa) left Marakesh early Sunday morning with the idea of making Tangiers by mid afternoon.
It wasn't to be
At around mid day my 1150 developed a fault with the front breaks, throwing me off at 75MPH down the motorway between Casablanca and Rabat. By some mirical all the cars missed me and my kit did a fantastic job, though i sustained a broken right collerbone in the initial fall.
The Moroccan health care system then kicked in as it took 6 hours to get me to the hospital that was 10 miles away.
Disaster tunrned to Farce when, whilst following the ambulance, lisa's engine went bang big time
So what finally arrived at the hospital was an ambulance with me in the front, and lisa and 6 cases of luggage in the back
I'll cut it short from here... 2 days in a great hospital thanks to travel insurance, followed by 2 days getting me,lisa and knackerd bike back to Tangiers and over border (another story). BMW take bike off us and taxi us to Maliga from where we flew to Manachester on thursday.
So we left home with 2 BMWs and loads of luggage in september, returned last week with a box of pain killers and a couple of bags of dirty washing
Finally.. Bill... Thank you for hanging on in Morocco, and returning to rescue us from Casablanca. In our hour of need you came through
Brian.... you'll be getting a lot more than tyres from us when Bill arrives, he has all my panniers and kit too