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Wind, surf, shopping, food -paradise!
... to boom, evident with the many cranes and construction crews around. The winds are really strong today so no one is kite surfing or even on the beach.
We arrived in the town, phoned a taxi and headed to Hotel Misiana where we have booked a room for 5 nights. We found Hotel Misiana to be a quaint small boutique hotel nestled in the lower quarter and a perfect location to walk anywhere. The Port of Tarifa is less than a block away ...
OMG you went to AFRICA????!!!!!!!!
... but with not much time we headed to the chemist in morocco where we were given a demonstration of the natural spices and their properties in oils and creams etc.
Moving on we had a dinner in a beautiful resturant with a cool band just for us. The food was nice, not really authentic we thought because the spices were quite bland but the beer was so smooth. We had a ...
TO THE SOUTHERN TIP OF EUROPE
... made our way between the two oceans braving winds whipping sand against us to the little island, now a defence base until a man yelled for us to go back. We did!
Later that evening we dined on delicious tapas at El Frances with a good local wine and felt we had come far and seen plenty.
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Hanging Ten in Tarifa
... that familiar.
A really bad lunch experience and a short LRT ride later we were dumped out at the bus station, ready to catch our coach to Tarifa. Coach is a relative word, so it turns out. The bus itself was reasonably in tune with our North American standards, but the lack of washroom made me very nervous about the 3 hour ride to Tarifa. Luckily there were few people on the bus, so we were both able to get our own rows and ...
Boat rides and Boat wrongs
... directions. Eventually we came to a small ticket house that sold bus tickets but it was closed. With no other choice we found a taxi who took us to our accommodations. We checked in and then went to look for a place to eat. The town we were in, a place where people summer, was a virtual ghost town and we were only able to find a small pub where we took food. We went back to our hotel to prepare for our trip the next day to Gibraltar.
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