Al-Mar Algeciras
Av de la Marina 2 - 3 Algeciras, Andalusia, 11201, Spain and Canary Islands
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Algeceeya, Europe
... br> I also met my Morocco travelling companion in the Hotel here (the hotel was called the Pension Lisboa, and was clean and had exceptionally helpful and friendly owners - perfect for a one night stop). Tony is orignally from Dublin and is living in London. He was heading down through Morocco as well, so we teamed up. At first, we just said we would go as far as Tanger together; as we got to know each other, we decided to go right down to Marrakech as a team. It ...
At sea between Valencia and Casablanca
... It’s a reminder, however, that much of the really fabulous stuff from all these places is probably better at the British Museum, the Met or wherever in Europe….Nonetheless, it was good to see it. Then we drove north from there to the “blue and white city” of Sidi Bou Said, a lovely little coastal town. Unfortunately, our driver only took us to the stalls selling stuff. But by then Rex was pretty much out of steam ...
Bed
... down flat since tuesday (now thursday night).
Very few interesting stories to tell from journey. In order of interestingness, they go like this...
1. Got woken by French border police at spanish border asking for my passport which I couldn´t find cos I was half asleep.
2. Dropped my ipod down the side of my coach seat, got lodged somewhere out of reach so ...
IT'S AWFUL.
... recommend anyone bother going there.
The accepted currency is Pounds Stirling, but the notes they use are Gibraltar Pounds. Everyone speaks English. Nearly everyone looks English. And almost all the bars are done up like English pubs, aimed at locals anglo residents or English holiday makers who never really wanted to, or should have, left England.
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Monkeys, Caves and mad taxi rides
... a wonderful cave that has been opened up and not only does it have some fantastic stalactites and stalagmites but they have used one of the open areas within the cave system as an underground theatre unfortunately nothing was playing whilst we were there but the boys did give us a rendition of 'noisy loud boys in a cave with echo'! We then had the drive upto the top of the rock and the monkeys!! We managed ...



