Hotel El Palomar de la Brena Cádiz

... asleep and we all sat back and rode the bus to Algecerias.

When we arrived, we learned that a ferry to Tangier was about to leave so we quickly bought our tickets and jumped on the ferry. The ferry trip was right out of Disneyland---lots of high waves, tossing and turning. We basically had the ‘fast pass’ on an E ticket to Tangier! In addition, the ferry had on the documentary ‘Planet Earth’ which ...

... even though we had been forewarned, there were literally rivers of urine running down the streets. No, I am not kidding. There were lines of characters waiting to use one the the dozen port-o-potties that were scattered throughout the city.. but why wait in line when there is a perfectly suitable building or fire hydrant right next to the toilet?? I didnt intend to be so graphic but it was all part of the experience. This is the point where ...

... where we bought a few cans of the Cruzcampo beer and a 1.5 L bottle of Tinto de Verano - a type of cheap red wine with lemonade. We went to see the pier with the Castillo de San Sebastian, the Castillo de Santa Catalina, the cathedral, the old town and the beautiful Parque Genoves with waterfalls and parrots, and it was pretty much everything, so we went to the famous la Caleta beach and enjoyed ourselves there.

To my surprise, the beach was full of people ...

... Matthew is working very ******* all (3!) of his classes, and with each one, the student number fluxuates (increases in some cases. decreases in other cases). He and his MICE (mobile interactive computer music ensemble) will be giving their first concert on the ship tomorrow night. He's got a lot of work to prepare for this. MICE will also give concerts in Namibia, S. Africa, India , Vietnam and any other place they are able to (they ...

... was crossed. He tried to hold my hand but I wasn´t having it! Not on the first night!!! haha. It took a few minutes to get used to it but i was fine shorty after. We said "choukran" to our new Moroccan friends and exchanged facebook URLs. We got on the bus and headed to the hotel for a huge dinner of bread, soup, bread, traditional meatballs, bread, pasta, bread, and we finished with flan. Oh did i mention we ate alot of bread? It seems like that´s ...

... of toast that my mom makes on the stove and some nutella like spread. it's called cocoa con leche. its like nutella with a little creme added. Its really good and I made the mistake of telling my mom that i am painfully addicted to nutella. i tried explaining that it was a problem, but i think she thought i was kidding. so every morning coffee with 2 pieces of toast and cocoa con leche and then i'm off the orientation which starts at 9. I've only ...

... how tired we all were, and how amazing this experience was. It was also full of much more self-disclosure than had been the case earlier in the trip, at least with me. I learned from a couple of participants that having traveled with my husband had opened their eyes to gay couples, and two other participants talked to me about their gay relatives. We had a great dinner at the hotel, one last closing circle, and then a 3:30am wake up call to catch a bus back to ...

... got to see the king's palace, which he has a palace in many cities in Morocco. It was in a large plaza, which also had una mezquita, mosque, near by. There were lots of mosques and we also got to learn a lot about the Muslum religion and how they have to pray 5 times a day, they have an extra month in their calendar, they are only in the year 1490, around there, during this extra month the people fast and can only eat between sundown and sunset, and also ...

... weer onder water doorgebracht en deze keer ook water binnen gekregen wak wel minder vond. Maag is weeral geschuurd met zout se :-) Na 1.5u zijn we eruit gegaan, wegens geen goede golven meer. Omdat die ticketjes voor 3u gelden, mogen we dus nog eens terugkomen. SUPER!!!!! Spijtig genoeg ni echt foto's van het surfen genomen, hopelijk volgende keer wel. Op erasmus gaan wordt toch zeer verschillend begrepen in andere landen. Praktisch iedereen hier moet ...

... many times I felt unsafe and uncomfortable in my own skin. Now, I must also say that I took many necessary precautions, such as not leaving the hotel after dark, hiring a fake guide to not get lost or be alone, keeping my daypack with money and passport on me at all times with the zippers locked, making sure my hotel room could be locked from the inside, notifying the american embassy as to my whereabouts, etc. When traveling to a country that is as poor as this one, you ...