Day 8 Rabat

We had another easy day today leaving the villa about eleven this morning after having breakfast outside in the sun again. After packing the car and saying our goodbyes we headed the three and a half hours back to Rabat. Khalid from the villa used to live in Rabat and gave us the address of a car breakers to try and find a headlight as I went to change the bulb yesterday and found it was a sealed beam with no bulb. We found the yard quite quickly and he rummaged around for a while and found a headlight about the same size with a bulb fitting and after a bit of creative packing with cardboard we now have two headlights working again. Hopefully this will save us a few pounds in fines over the next couple of weeks. From there we drove along the seafront of new Rabat to the harbor and Kasbah and tried to hunt down a hotel. Most of the old town is narrow streets with little or no parking so after Nora had a quick look in one rhiad we opted to head back out of town a bit closer to the embassy for the morning. We are now in a cheap and cheery hotel with secure parking so I don't have to empty the car. We went for a walk and found a French cafe come restaurant for a not very french lasagne. We are aiming to get to the embassy first thing tomorrow for the bun fight of the application process.