Algeciras
Travel Blogs from Algeciras, Spain and Canary Islands
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Coast of Africa
... said the next entry would be from Africa. I was half right. I couldn't resist. I'm on the top deck of the ferry from Algeciras to Morocco (Tangier) I have already got my passport stamped so I'm ready to go when we arrive. The ferry is pretty empty but the ...
Algeciras
... had sandwiches. again festival in the evening. not much to report. The next day my cousins were flying back to Australia. I stayed in Algeciras with my 2nd cousins, ate paella, smoked, drank, bbq. got mild food poisoning and spent the night on the toilet ...
Missing Train
... next little while. Anyway, luckily there was another train, but only at 17:45. However it would now mean that we would get to Algeciras at 11pm, and not be able to get a Ferry to Morocco the next day. By the time the next train came we had begun to ...
Back to Algeciras
... travel to stand on the ferry deck and take lots of pictures. Plus, this ferry was packed full and we had problems finding seats. The ride was pleasant, and we were all eager to get home, for Spain was playing in a EuroCup match that ...
Espanha
... como moscas partilhando a mesma merda, nao sentia a minima vontade de me aproximar. Siga para Espanha. Fizemos 6 horas até Algeciras, estavamos na cidade que a Inês queria visitar para ir conhecer o Padre Patera e que me calhava muitissimo bem a mim ...
It all starts here
... 5.30, kissed Sophia goodbye (sniff), and left Rabat by train for Tangier. I then crossed the straits of Gibraltar to Algerciras, Spain and tonight will board another train for Madrid to commence a solo month long tour of Europe. This is the serious part ...
Algeciras: Embarkation
On the morning of Thursday, June 19, we woke up very, very early and caught a bus at 6am down to Algeciras, a Spanish port on the Mediterranean, right next to Gibraltar. That is where our ferry to Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast, ...
Passed straight through...
...Breakfast in Ronda, photos from the Ronda Bridge, high speed over the Andalucian mountains and into Algeciras for the ferry. Dropped off the car, to the ...
Algeciras
... we drove for ages and he dropped me close to Almeria, I tried to hitchhike but it was impossible, man it was hot. got a bus to malaga and then called my cousin to pick me up. 2hrs from Algeciras, more or less succeeded the mission. arrived there at 3am. ...
Andalucia
... you can't turn it off. Except tihs isn't a B movie, it is a masterpiece set in southern Spain with Andalucia as my theater. We should arrive to Algeciras in about 40 minutes. I have considered checking out what it would take for me to get to GIbralter ...
Finally got to Algeciras
... spread all over the place. The plan was to stop and go for a swim but the wind was howling, the water choppy and filthy looking. Algeciras, like many huge harbour cities is pretty filthy and chaotic. Not great for being the entrance to Europe. We dodged ...
Travellin through fields of Olives
... spent 5 months in the Spanish and Portuguese new world former colonies and now we've returned to the mother land. Spain and Portugal are significantly more developed and organized than South America. No doubt the silver of Potosi and Sugar ...
Spain and bonjour Morocco
... Cape Town! After Cadiz (recommend a few days here to anybody) we headed off along the coast (the Costa de la Luz) towards Algeciras and our ferry to Africa. Stopped en route on a lovely beach just past Barbate, with views of Cape Trafalger to one ...
Bed
Day 3 Arrive 19:45 Wow, what a journey!! Arrived in Algeciras pretty much on time but what a journey. Chesterfield to Algeciras in about 52 hours. Have just showered for the first time in two and a half days (and yes did I need it, but ...
Just pointing out Gibraltar
This is the location for the Rock of Gibraltar, England.... which is in the middle of the Costal Del Sol, Spain! bryan and vivian clouds, frowns, sunshine and ...
Algeciras, Spain
... town/city is for ferries to and from Morocco. If I had known that earlier I would have skipped the overnight accommodation in Algeciras and gone straight to Tangier! Actually, come to think of it I would have skipped the accommodation in Malaga as well ...
On the Ferry
... it has only just hit us how hard this is going to be! All the truck drivers don't want to take us for insurance reasons and families have no room..eek! Despite this we are still positive although Jennie is grumpy because we are not letting her go to the ...
A day for the truckers
... running low. Here Luck was definately on our side as after only 2 mins a Romanian truck driver, who lives in and happened to be driving to Spain pulled up. Max told us he had given another couple of Morocco hitchers a lift last week, so when he had ...
Grandpa has had enough!
... alittle crazy buying food we miss (so hungry, haven't eaten all day) and scoff down some good old fish and chips. As we enter back into Spain we realise that the Spanish cross regularly to buy cheap cigarettes and it semmed to attract a certain ...
A very rainy day to hitch
After a rather rough night sleep in the rain we set off with Dominique giving us a lift to the edge of the motorway heading to Rennes. After a considerably short time at the side of the road we were picked up by another french guy who offered us a ...
First night
... house past Caen and fed us lovely French food. The irony being he is flying to Morocco today! After spending three or so hours pretending to understand his wife we retreated to our tent in his garden, for a cold and rainy sleep! Sent from my iPhone ...
A very rainy day to hitch
... we began thinking otherwise! In France > it is illegal to hitch on the actual motorway so we alternated > between the slip road and asking inside at the service station, but > sadly there were no takers. Finally around lunchtime the rain > stopped, ...
Luck came our way
... we walked for a while and, I hate to say it but Alice got a little grumpy. We found a nice slipway to stand by and amazingly two cars stopped at once! This lift took us to a service station just outside Nantes where we collapsed into chairs but more ...
Spain and the sea side
After driving solidly for a few days, we take a well earned break by the sea in ...
After Max
... got a lift to a village train station. We then got a train back into central Madrid and found food and a hostel for the night. Seeing as Spain had already shut down for the Easter weekend we assessed our options and due to our tight time schedule we ...
Bangers, apes and clowns
... British Empire, Gibraltar. Gibraltar is a narrow peninsula, three miles by one mile, jutting into the Mediterranean at the bottom of Spain. The entire peninsula is dominated by the steep-faced Rock itself and the locals live down below in the long, ...
Algeciras, Spain
This place is a hole. Tumble weeds and sketchy characters everywhere. Moving on to ...
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