A monkey ate my breakfast : Motorhome adventures in Morocco
A monkey Ate My Breakfast
Read about the sights, sounds and smells of Morocco in our travelogue of a month on the road through the Morocco in our motorhome.
With the abyss of Fortysomethingness looming, we quit work, rented out our home and set off on the adventure of a lifetime. Our plan was to tour Europe for a year in our 20 year old motorhome named Dave.
Accompanied by our pet pooch Charlie, we were two months into our trip when we found out that it was possible to take Charlie to Morocco with us. Now that would be an adventure!
All the research we did said we should take a guided tour, our budget wouldn’t stretch to that – but that didn’t stop us.
Follow our month-long adventure of discovery in this mysterious country, as we journey across amazingly diverse landscapes of deserts and mountains. Explore the sights, sounds and smells as we tackle culture shock and nerves while haggling with the locals, riding camels in the Sahara Desert, falling victim to a fake tour guide with a lust for wine and battling with our statically charged canine who developed a taste of camel poo.
If you’re thinking of following in our footsteps and are considering your own motorhome, campervan or RV (recreational vehicle) tour of Morocco, you’ll find it packed full of useful tips too.
Available now as a Paperback or eBook from Amazon
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Reviews of A Monkey Ate My Breakfast
Sally – Amazon March 2021
Enjoying being motorhome travellers with our dogs and being in lockdown, this book took me on a journey and reminders of our own travels and of things we had forgotten. What a thoroughly enjoyable and authentic read, I felt I was there with you.
If you love traveling being it by car, motorhome, caravan or tent, you will love this book.
John Popovich – Amazon January 2013
A tell it as it is book. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Just felt I was watching over their shoulder as they bumped along through Morocco, describing day to day encounters with a forgotten people in a lost place in time. Especially recommend this book if you’re planning on visiting Africa or Morocco.
KennyO – Amazon July 2020
Read about the sights, sounds and smells of Morocco in this travelogue of a month on the road through the country in a motorhome. Jay and Julie Buckley give an honest and open description of Morocco with its amazingly diverse scenery, it’s rich cultural mix and heritage combined with the trials and tribulations of being a third world country just 25 miles away from the shores of sophisticated Europe. Intriguing, complex, simple, hard, poor ,dynamic, rugged and resourceful. Just a few words to describe Moroccans. There is a saying that when you enter the country ” Put your watch forward an hour and step back 2000 years”. Jay and Julie have captured some of that paradigm in this easy to read record of their first trip to Morocco.
About the authors
Julie and Jason Buckley quit work just before they turned 40 in 2011, to take a once in a lifetime, one-year tour of Europe in their motorhome. Documenting their travels on their blog ourtour.co.uk, two years later they finally returned home. Yearning for more adventures, they set a goal to change their lives and become financially free, enabling them to travel whenever they wanted to.
Aged 43, they ‘retired’ and took to the road once more to explore from the North Cape in Norway to the Sahara Desert in Morocco. They now mix up their time between motorhome life and their base in Nottinghamshire, England. Julie and Jason have written several books to help and inspire others to follow their own motorhome dreams or to start their own journey to financial freedom.
A Monkey Ate My Breakfast – Book Details
Page Count – 190 Pages
Published – December 2012
Book Size – 15.24 x 1.22 x 22.86 cm
Formats – Paperback or eBook
Available From – Amazon
Planning your own Motorhome Adventure in Morocco?
Our guidebook Motorhome Morocco provides all the information you’ll need to confidently take your motorhome to Morocco, and independently experience North Africa without the costs and constraints of a guided tour.
Fully updated in 2020 with all the latest information provided by recent visitors to the country, Motorhome Morocco is available as a paperback or eBook from Amazon.
Reviews of Motorhome Morocco
David M – Amazon December 2017
For anyone wishing to take a motorhome to Morocco, this must be essential reading in preparation. Hugely informative, bang up to date and written in an engaging style, this is the best detailed practical travel book I have come across.
Andrea R – August 2019
This book has saved hours of internet research and answered all those questions we had about taking our motorhome to Morocco. We now feel confident we can just go and enjoy our trip. Written by two well travelled motorhomers who have first hand experience. Well worth the investment.
OURTOUR OTHER BOOKS
We’ve also written several other books about motorhoming and financial freedom, you can click on the image below to find more information about them.
Hi guys. I have to say I enjoyed your book very much. The thing that struck me was it is a “Tell like it is ” book. I also enjoyed the humour. I have been to places where the way of life is a culture shock to us in Canada and you certainly bring those places back to me with your candid approach to writing. When’s the next one coming out? Thanks again for a Great read.
John
Thanks for your kind words John. Glad you enjoyed our book. Sorry to say it might be a while before the next one though if the time it took us to write this one is anything to go by!
Julie
Fascinating. I am mostly in Portugal at moment and planning to drive to Tangiers. Will have to read all of your book.
Thanks Peter
Hope you enjoy it – the book and Morocco!
Julie :)