I was woken by bleats; a herd of goats had descended on the camp.
She had remained sprightly throughout, recalling how they "scampered down over the stones after the manner of the goats... clearing the ground at a famous speed" to get down the valley.
"You need a few goats to slaughter, you need people to attend the ritual, you need to provide food and drinks for them," says Theo. "These people live on a day-to-day basis.
NOMAD MIGRATION ROUTE, MOROCCO For centuries members of the semi-nomadic Ait Atta tribe have traversed mountain paths south twice a year, from the High Atlas to their homeland in the Jebel Sahro, to find new pastures for their huge flocks of sheep and goats.
The journey up through the Atlas had taken us past impromptu festivals, weekly markets, flocks of goats and a millennium of history.
I watched as a small boy ambled past, a few steps behind an elderly man, a gaggle of raggedy goats between them.
With it they dish up home-made goats cheese and fantastic rural dishes such as rabbit stew.
Sheep pick their way through the foliage looking for a feed and goats weave in and out of fences.
Add a sprinkling of hens, goats and ponies, and you've got a recipe for a near-perfect family adventure.
Films from Cannes I hear are definitely getting UK distribution: Le Quattro Volte (a dialogue-free Italian film about goats); Cristi Puiu's three-hour Aurora and, hooray, Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme and, of course, Uncle Boonmee….
Children can take tractor rides, meet the animals (a horse, three ponies, two dwarf goats, as well as guinea pigs, rabbits and cats), collect eggs while adults can loll in one of three saunas.
