Iberostar City Hotel Campo de Gibraltar La Linea

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The next day was the official day we would be entering Africa via a ferry from Spain to the Spanish providence in Africa. There we stocked up on lunch supplies and alcohol due to the fact that Morocco is a dry country and we are quite the group of lushes. (Well at least a handful of us). The insanity of the amount of alcohol we had to get into the truck was awe inspiring. We were trying to cover six weeks’ worth of casual drinking for 24 people.

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... his life. Following that nightmare, we met up with the truck and the rest of the group. The ratio ended up being 6 girls to 17 guys. Good ratio ;)

We arrived very late in Gibraltar so we were unable to see the city and were immediately escorted to the stores to buy last minute items and summer and Gavin picked up our bulk food supply. To our wonder and amazement we discovered some amazing Spanish wine for only 1 EURO!!! Needless to say there ...

Since we left Gibraltar we have spent our time in the south of Spain.

After leaving Terifa and Gibraltar, we ended up camping at Nerja (Google it) at the far east end of the Costa del Sol.

The Costa del Sol is of course fabulously beautiful and fabulously over developed. It could be called the Condo del Sol. We did not bother stopping there, but we did see plently of fine hotel and condo developments on the way through. For 149,000 ...

On June 29 we went to Gibraltar.

We left our vehicle on the Spanish side of the border, and walked in.

Gibraltar is a sort of English oasis in sourthern Spain. It has all of the symbols of England - bobbies, red phone booths, double decker busses, and Cockney accents - but with great weather.

We took a bus around the city, and then took a cable car to the top of the Rock of ...

Landed last night in Gibraltar, but had to camp in Spain and met up with some more of the group. The rest are coming on Friday, and the plan is to travel to Morocco on the Saturday. We are actually having 2 crew members on this trip, Chris (Driver) and Gary (Leader). I can now say that I've "been there done that" with regards to the Rock and the rest of Gibraltar. We got a minivan tour with guide ...

... us the forms and started to fill them out. Another guy came up after that and offered to take our backpacks across the border on his dolley. We decilned as that is why we brought backpacks. Then another guy 'helped' us fill out the forms. Actually all he did was annoy us as we tried to fill out the forms. Like I said we had done this before and it wasn't exactly a tough process of filling in your name and such. He then demanded money as we were ...

... it was great to be on the way.

We had to work on the Auto Pilot and refer to the manuals to get it operating and sorted.
The sunset was stunning and we hoped it was the first of many.

It was a lovely moon rise for our first night and we had to alter course a few times because of traffic.
The shift rota worked out well for me. I was on at 2100hrs and finished at 0100hrs.
Peter was on with me for the first 2 hours and then Mitch took his place.

... wall & archway to enter, that is like Sorrento. Itīs very much a locals place to holiday,īand somewhere for people to show off the work they do at the gym! Itīs really nice though. Except in the morning itīs really overcast til about 11am, then itīs hot for the rest of the day. Tomorrow Iīm off to Morocco! Itīs about 45mins by Ferry, so that should be interesting to say the least... better be worth the money! Iīm sure it will be an experience.

... was full of colour and life and we went to the traditional fish, meat and vegetable markets and saw amazing sights including camels hooves and goats heads for sale. Men dominate the street cafes sitting watching the world go by drinking mint tea and women are mostly covered up in traditional Muslim fashion. We started our tour with a group meeting and hotel dinner on the Saturday night to get to know each other. Our guide ...

... for some reason we thought didn't have enough to carry. We remedied that problem. Chefchouen and the Splif... I Mean Rif Mountains Our planned stay-a-few-days-in-one-place place was Chefchouen. We had heard how beautiful, laid back, and relaxing it was and thought it would be a good final place to rest up before returning home. Turns out it is also extremely touristed (well, for Morocco), but for good reason - the city is extremely charming ...