{"id":606,"date":"2007-09-12T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytomorocco.com\/2007\/09\/12\/making-for-the-border\/"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T08:32:53","slug":"making-for-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/making-for-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Making for the border&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve decided to head for home. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t like Morocco (although to be fair I&#8217;ve only seen a very tainted part of it) it&#8217;s a combination of things. Right at the top of that list is spending 14 days in my own company. It&#8217;s what some may call, madness; or at the very least that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll end up if I spend any more time on my own with a very basic understanding of French.<\/p>\n<p>I get the feeling I&#8217;ve not really seen Morocco &#8211; what I&#8217;ve seen is the Tourist hell hole that is the con artists, the cities and the crazy driving that is northern Morocco. I&#8217;m sure had I stuck with it I would have seen the many wonders and secrets that it holds; unfortunately this time it didn&#8217;t open them to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m coming back. Of that I&#8217;m very sure, perhaps next time with friends, which I think will make the world of difference. Three seems the perfect number; one to watch the bikes, another to search for hotels and the third to fend off the money making scum that have ruined this once great nation.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I head for home, I will of course be heading in the opposite direction from which I came, and my luck being what it is it will be beautiful, wonderful and everything I was hoping! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve decided to head for home. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t like Morocco (although to be fair I&#8217;ve only seen a very tainted part of it) it&#8217;s a combination of things. Right at the top of that list is spending 14 days in my own company. It&#8217;s what some may call, madness; or at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/making-for-the-border\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making for the border&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28,33,34],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morocco","category-on-the-road","category-touring","category-travel","tag-morocco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}