Alarde, Hotel Algeciras

... saumon, bacon, jamon bleu.....Apres s etre rassasie, nous voilà parti pour algeciras... MERCREDI 6 MAI 2009 vers CHEFCHAOUEN Cq y est, on embaraue pour lq Ceuta a 14h30.... On arrive a la Ceuta, contrôle douanier, vous avez des armes? Non ! Vous pouvew pqsser....arrivee a oued laou banque populaire, caisse d epargne,, Dorades, tomates et aubergines..

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, departed from at 10 o'clock. The ferry ride was only about 90 minutes and it was a lot of fun - we had great views of the Spanish coast and of the shipyard in Algeciras.

... ben poche cose da vedere. Forse una. Castellar del la Frontera, quello vero e che Pepe ci aveva segnalato è a 7 chilometri di salita "durilla" (così definita da un ciclista di passaggio) e deve essere un posto molto carino ma anche molto caro. La nostra guida ci indica che c'è un solo posto in cui dormire e per nulla a buon mercato. Decidiamo di arrivare fino ad Algeciras, consapevoli che si tratta di un posto terribile ma di portarci ...

... vooruit gaan, kijken we elkaar stralend aan. Wauw, dit was ons twee maanden geleden nog niet gelukt! We zijn trots en tevreden: dit doen we toch maar even samen. We hebben de hele tocht op een leuke manier samengewerkt: wisselen het sturen en het navigeren af, bereiden de aanloop van de haven voor terwijl het nog licht is en hebben ook nog lekker gegeten. Wat een topdag! We spurten naar de overkant, terwijl de stroom ons ook nog even twee knopen(!) naar het ...

... Seville was actually at 11:20, and had come and gone two hours before, but they left all the trains of the day on the board. So I ran back to Megan just as the doors of our train closed. I can't say it was a very pleasant 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 ...

... Tarifa but we didn´t realize that it was siesta time. Honestly, all the shops close down for 2 to 3 hours in the afternoon for a siesta. They don´t post it on the hours, its just known. Its almost surreal. We caught the ferry to Tanger. It was supposed to take 35 minutes. It really took and hour and 35 minutes. I don´t know why, I guess it was Spanish time again. The ferry was full of mostly rich Moroccans. We were warned to get away from the port area as quickly as possible because ...

I arrived at the bus station an hour early, ate gummies and waited for my bus to Morocco. Considering that the first time I boarded a bus using a ticket that I purchased by myself the seat belonged to someone else, I didn't want to take any chances. (It's not that the bus system isn't reliable here, it's that I'm not. The bus ticket I had purchased gave me a seat on the 1:30 bus not the 13:30 bus. ) I wasn't just nervous about the bus. There was something about this trip that was ...

... I sucked it up. After I purchased my ticket I flagged a taxi down but he had no clue where I was trying to go. I barely had an idea. I checked my guide book for a cheap pension to keep my bags. I was willing to pay $15 for a night just to be able to rest, shower, and have a secure place to get off the streets. I tried another taxi and this one seemed to have an idea. I couldn't have been more wrong. No matter how much you can plan not to get ripped off it is almost inevitable ...

5/21 11:13am I 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 passengers aboard are a mixture of Spanish, Moroccan, other Europeans and a whole tour full of Americans. They are some college group that is doing a 3 month ...

... some problems. We pulled over to the side of the road in front of a mechanics shop. The driver got a wrench and worked on the engine. In a few minutes we were off again. Several hours later, while in the middle of nowhere, the engine problems returned. We made an unscheduled stop in a small village and the driver told everyone that we would ...