Hotel Rif And Spa Tangier

... the train, heading up the tracks for a few
kilometres to the next station. We followed suit and it was I admin, pretty
funny walking down the tracks in the lightly falling rain, everyone carrying
all their luggage on their heads.

We arrived at
the station of the nearest one horse town and debated whether to wait for the
next train, get a hotel here or continue onto the nearest town that even gets a
mention in the guidebook – Meknes.

Lots of desert
Tangier, Morocco shanemilli

Africa, we are here!  We took a 4 hour bus ride to Tarifa from Seville thinking we were taking the fast express ferry across to Morocco.  We soon figured out that the 35 min ride was actually more like 50 min, and because it was delayed by 30 minutes we arrived ...

1st of all ... Happy New Year!! 2nd ... This update will be in 4 parts, b/c I'm a huge dork and want the line on the map to go all over the place ... so read what you like ... OK, so after my awesome Philadelphia airport update, I got on the plane to Madrid, took some night time cold medicine, ate dinner, and passed out. It was the best flight I've ever had! I ...

... the girls in our group named Mary right off the bat. It was all fun and games until he presented the idea of her being his fourth wife...silence, all but the cricket chirps of course. No one really knew what to do. I mean we knew polygamy was common in Morocoo, but we couldn´t tell if he was serious or not. He kept going off about one wife or the other...one in this town, one in that....we just smiled our awkward smiles. He of course also ...

... on baclava type sweets in the main square and were wondering why everyone looked like they wanted to punch us in the face. Also we were wondering why all the local restaurants are closed. The only prepared food to be found is at McDonald's and Pizza Hut where, legally, only Westerners and Muslim children can eat. Bollocks to that, we are in Morocco. We can buy a stash of fruit and other things like pastries then sneak into our hotel to eat them without ...

... table on the footpath), the Grotto of Hercules, and I have my first swim in the Atlantic at a surf beach near Cape Spartel. Finally my day of departure comes and I drive around the coast, past Jebel Musa (842 metres), the southern Pillar of Hercules (Gibraltar is the northern one) at the entrance to the Mediterranean, to the border just past Fnideq and on into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Unlike a month ago when I had serious hassles getting into Morocco with my car, this ...

... bored and wanted a chat. We arrived in Asilah and found a campsite that doesn't look much better than Sale. However this time the town looks like a nice place to spend a day or so, it reminds me slightly of Chefchaouen. It's a small walled town, very laidback, next to the sea, with all the buildings whitewashed and doors and window frames colourfully painted in shades of blue, purple and turquoise.

... Fes shrink into the distance, from my air conditioned car. The train ride was long, and the food was short at hand, but we got through with a few battered magazines, an ipod, and nostalgic conversation. We arrived in Tangier, the end of the tracks, a mere 5 hours later. Tangier as Kyle described it to Emily, was known as "a city of vice" From it's hay day as an international zone, and hangout for characters diverse as Woolworth's Heiress Barbara Hutton ...

Leaving Sevilla, we took a ferry to Tangiers. the last time we were in Morocco, in 1998, we had forgotten our original copy of the title, but had a certified copy of it, which was good enough to get us in and out. this time however, the copy caused a lot of furrowed brows and waiting before mike was finally sent upstairs to see the Police. (all they did was type his name and passport number into their computer). While we waited we were offered ...

... We had been served coffee while talking to the guy, and we paid for the coffee before we left. He got kind of angry about this, saying we shouldn't ever pay with him, he never has to pay at these places. Tai use the Internet while I cleaned up. We met our friend who said the guide had pushed the our back because verything would have stopped for lunch. We took is suggestion to try the chicken place up the street- roasted chicken, rice, sauce, and a baguette for 15dH- it was ...