Driving into the Atlas

On Wednesday we set off due South from Fes, into the middle Atlas Mountains. We passed some time discussing what we had eaten differently (as I was ill and Stefanie not) and there were pleasant scenes of Cyprus forests as we turned off onto smaller roads. 

Steffi got ticked off by a policeman for not coming to a complete halt at a stop sign, which I admit I did not see either. And in the very next town she got pulled over for apparently doing 72kph in a 60 zone. This was very unfair, as we had just been passed out by every other vehicle on the road, including a bus, and had been driving very slowly all day. Anyway after some discussion the proposed €40 fine was negotiated to €10, and the police directed us to a castellated hotel, where we were the only guests. Behind are orchards, then snow capped mountains and Berber country.