Algeciras, Spain Travel Blogs

Coast of Africa
May 22, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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
Jul 8, 2009

... . 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 chucking up my ...

Missing Train
Oct 12, 2006

... another amazing Spanish sunset as we slowly made our way down south. The only line in the Lonely Planet that stood out about Algeciras was "Keep your wits about you". So arriving at 11pm, with no accommodation booked, or any map of where the station ...

Back to Algeciras
Jun 23, 2008

... 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 evening.

Espanha
Sep 18, 2008 (5 photos)

... afluem 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
Jan 12, 2004 (37 photos)

... 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 of ...

Algeciras: Embarkation
Jun 19, 2008 (5 photos)

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, ...

Side trips to Gibraltar and Morocco
Sep 10, 2006 (30 photos)

Sorry, will update soon.  Checkout the photos in the meantime.

Passed straight through...
Aug 27, 2009 (1 photos)

...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 ferry.....

Algeciras
Jul 8, 2009 (1 photos)

... 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
May 22, 2005

... 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 ...

Travellin through fields of Olives
Jan 29, 2009

... 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 Cane of ...

Spain and bonjour Morocco
Oct 22, 2005 (17 photos)

... longer in Andalusia to see some of the bits we still want to see would seem a little like hiding. So on to Algeciras... Ticket bought for Ceuta, and an afternoon to spare, we headed to Gibraltar with low expectations but feeling we really should make ...

Algeciras, Spain
Dec 18, 2005 (2 photos)

... /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 and ...

Algeciras
Apr 23, 2008

I get off the ferry from Tangier and Stay in a dumpy hostel by the port for the night.

On the Ferry
Apr 7, 2009

We are sitting on the ferry and 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 ...

A day for the truckers
Apr 9, 2009

... 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 seen us waiting ...

A very rainy day to hitch
Apr 8, 2009

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 lift ...

First night
Apr 8, 2009

Finally got a lift from a WOMAN driver woop! Who dropped us at Normandy bridge where we met Dominique. He took us to his house past Caen and fed us lovely French food. The irony being he is flying to Morocco today! After spending three or so hours ...

A very rainy day to hitch
Apr 8, 2009

> > 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 ...

Luck came our way
Apr 8, 2009

After nearly five hours of waiting in the rain we eventually got a lift to Rennes. Here 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 ...

Spain and the sea side
Oct 26, 2002

After driving solidly for a few days, we take a well earned break by the sea in Spain.

After Max
Apr 11, 2009

... 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 decided today to ...

Algeciras, Spain
Aug 18, 2006

This place is a hole. Tumble weeds and sketchy characters everywhere. Moving on to Tarifa.

What a dump of a city
Sep 2, 2007

So we arrived in Algericas on the 31st of August  when we realized that there was 31 days in August and not 30. Our Ferry to Morocco is booked for Sept 1 so I guess we have somer time to spend in this dirty little town. This is definitly a port town ...

to algeciras
May 25, 2007

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Algeciras
Oct 30, 2001

Algeciras

Wasted Day
May 21, 2006 (2 photos)

... Moroccan culture. I decided to count this as a travel failure. I walked out the port and took a cab into downtown Algeciras. Nothing. A Sunday in a Spanish port city is depressing. I walked up the Plaza Alta and only saw closed storefronts and the ...

Go To Spain (Car Park North)
Aug 12, 2005

Runaway port with Errol & Ajay.. Simple left off..

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Nov 25, 2008

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