Official Day 1 10 th April 2026 Travelling into the 11th April

April 12, 2026

Now it might seem a little strange that get to the UK this time, we are flying to across the guts of Australia to Perth. It was another brilliant idea we had, to test drive the 17 hour Perth to London flight. Our boys have both done and remarked that it wasn’t too bad, so we thought we would give it a go.

As our luck would have it, the event in the Middle East changed all that and QF 9 doesn’t exist for the time being. It’s a Perth to Singapore ( for a 2 hour refueling stop) and then onto London. I think a total of about 29 hours.

We have a flight to catch after our London arrival to get to Marrakesh, our seat of learning and education.

That was all fine before we were heading to Singapore. We originally were arriving at Heathrow at 5am which gave us plenty of time to get to Gatwick for our 2pm flight to Marrakesh.

Now we will be arriving at 10am with a very quick dash to the other side of London to get that flight.

It seems there has been a definite tone set for this trip. I think the universe is giving us a lesson in patience and resilience. Not sure why?

Arrived at Heathrow at 10am, right on time. Through seemless immigration. UK and Australia passport’s in same line, picked up packs within 5 minutes and the door.

Mercilessly ripped off by London cabbie coz I didn’t have my currency hat on, but he promised to get us to Gatwick within an hour and he did..

After about 2 days of flights and airports we arrive in Marrakesh, like different world, it’s loud, crowded and beautifully chaotic

We were picked up by a driver from the Riad where will be staying and he negotiated the busy Saturday afternoon traffic before leaving us in the hands of another chap to take us through the maze of alleys to get to the front door of our Riad. He insists on transporting our packs in his homemade wheelbarrow, makes me think of a Moroccan Sherpa. It was a struggle to keep up with him and he could have been twice our age!!