Dakhla is lovely! Right on a peninsula, gorgeous boulevards and cafes, lots of scrummy seafood restaurants and a hotel where everything works. We have spent the day watching kite surfers and walking up more sand dunes, having a long dinner on the seafront and coming back for a snooze. I met a lady in the lift who said she was cold this morning, so I ran back to my room to lend her Sonja's present. It's now back with a lovely note, her phone number and card for ...

There is a very fat German man in our group of 5, very annoying. He has a huge belly as tight as a drum which he likes to get out every now and again for a spot of sun. He is very loud so you can easily locate him - I can be busy contemplating a pretty stone when there will be a huge long fart to my left. We aren't really supposed to go 1 km off the tracks ( which are pretty invisible) because that's the distance the mines have been cleared. We are travelling ea...

We are spending a lot of time camping in Western Sahara - the first night was yesterday. We'd been to a lagoon in the afternoon and driven down an old seabed valley full of thousands of years old seashells which was a bit wierd in the middle of the desert. We then went on an old wooden fishing boat, complete with water and fish at the bottom to look at flamingoes. There they were in the distance - full paddle ahead, waves washing over us, the fisherman shouting a...

I have decided I love camping!! I know Ween is always wondering what will happen next when I ring him - a stray dog needing arranging to be brought back, yet another electric shock, me ringing him in the UK in tears because I'm lost. And so it goes on. I was getting away with things a bit more here apart from the collapsed tent but the other night I went out in the night for a wee and walked into a tree. Twice. I was happily squatting when I felt it rain down my ...

One advantage of being menopausal, fat and 56 is that no-one takes any notice of you now. So it was that last night saw me confidently striding out of the hotel with no map, no street name and the wrong hotel name in my head. I ended up on the Boulevard next to the beach with no one around except groups of lads and some children kicking an old shoe around. There don't seem to be any women around here, least of all one wandering around with a Moomin t-shirt on. It...