Hacienda Cabo De Plata Hotel Zahara De Los Atunes Tarifa

The adventure has begun! I met up with my new Canadian friends Katy, Dan and Sarah in London, Gatwick for 1 night at the Gatwick Belmont Guest House. The plan was to all shares a quad room but we were offered two doubles instead which worked out quite nice, we just shared a bathroom. All of us did the "getting to know strangers" celebratory beer… that turned into 6 or 7. J Some of us were hurting pretty badly in the morning for the flight but it ...

... through the Straits of Gibraltar and back into the Atlantic Ocean.<br><br>I got to thinking about the coolest things I'd seen on this trip, both big and small...the hugely awesome and small quirky things that stood out in my mind:<br><br>QM2 STAFF: The guy at the Purser's Desk who, while applying postage stamps, was cheerfully admiring my postcard of Snowflake, the famous albino gorilla from the Barcelona Zoo. When I told him that Snowflake was actually deceased, he ...

... themselves but soon I realized i hadn't a hope of remembering everyone and gave up.... There were around 50 in all gathered for the annual Tarifa couch-surfing meet organised by a young gregarious Spaniard Alejandro....who has one of those self inflating tents for speedy camping ...minimum faff maximum drinking time!<br><br>We drank warm beer and chatted, apart from the travelers everyone appeared to be working or trying to work along the coast, most spoke Spanish ...

... from me, but fortunately they left me with the car. Wait...the car. I have to move it by 7. Let me see how much time I have to soak myself in the tub...la-di-da....hmmm, this watch is set to another time...it says,hmmm, wait, it says 9:45. 9:45! NNNNNoooooooooo! I grabbed a non-puke-stained shirt, my sandals, the keys, the GPS, I tried to wake Carrie but she seemed to be in worse shape than me. Next thing I know, I'm crawling ...

I jumped on the bus from Malaga to Tarifa which worked well because there´s only 2 a day and I was lucky to catch the last one. Tarifa is the very southern tip of Spain and the narrowest point between Europe and Africa. I knew Morocco was close but I had no idea how close until I woke up this morning, looked out the window and saw a bunch of ...

mood: a little homesick After my much needed recovery sleep, I spent Sunday morning wandering around the streets for a while, checking out the surf shops and thinking about how cheap it is at home. I bumped into Val from the tour in one of the cafes and chatted to him for a bit, then wandered back to the hostel for lunch where i met a girl from Canada who invited me down to the beach with her. The main beach in Tarifa is a huge stretch of golden sand for as far as the ...

... cracked it at me and refused to start up (i think he was mad because i kept him locked away while i was in morocco... and he didnt like that). I wandered around the old town and went to the supermarket to get some supplies for dinner, and chatted to some of the people in the hostel for a while before giving in to my sleepiness and heading for a much needed sleep on a proper mattress. Random things After my experiences through morocco, i now eat ...

We found similar aromas as in the Kasbah on return to Dar Nilam, our Moroccan B&amp;B. We arrived back at 6:45 pm to the smell of Moroccan flatbread baking in the ovens. Rachel introduced us to our waiter, Saad, and confirmed dinner would be at 7:30. We were the only guests for dinner. Another couple had left earlier and we noted the British couple still staying at the Dar left dressed for dinner. Our rooms were very neatly ...

... Palios (a small Fiat about the size of a Punto). The "Palio Weekend" estate version of this car was sold in France, but that is as close as it got to the UK. Given that there are hardly any Puntos around here, I suppose that the Palio fills that niche in the Fiat range here in Morocco. The "Weekend" would have ...

... then found the port. We bought tickets for the 12 o'clock ferry and this time it wasn't delayed. I was starving but the only thing in the duty free shop was candy- I had twix and skittles. Hence we returned to Spain. We wanted to see if we could get our rental car a day early, so we picked up a taxi to take us to the rental car place. This turned out to be directly across the street from ...