Each morning and each evening, if there were no guests, I learned the highway code using the computer application. Each day that I could, I practiced with the Docker, learning to ride at normal traffic speed, and endless sessions of slalom and figures-of-eight. The uneven rock football pitch was a good training for the souk car park. One difficulty was that while most motorcycles have a gear shift that you press down to change to a lower gear, the Docker was shamelessly the opposite. I became quite good at switching from one to another.

With the driving school motorbike I was become quite confident, only occasionally knocking down a cone, or having to put a foot down. The slalom wasn't easy two metres between cones is pretty tight. I tried to use the techniques I was learning about on YouTube:  Feathering the clutch at the same time as dragging the rear brake. Little by little I was improving. My shin hurt still.

In my office, on the laptop, I was beginning to hit high percentages of correct answers, so I took a first mock exam. In Morocco, for the highway code exam, you have to learn the answers to one thousand questions. During the exam, you will have to answer 46 questions, taken at random. If it was for a car licence, there would only be 40 questions. To pass the exam, you needed a minimum of 80% correct.

By early January, I'd taken 8 mock exams, which is the maximum the web application would allow. I failed the first one, passed all the others, once at 80%, the rest much higher, one at 100%.

I was ready.