On Our Own

We ventured out on our own again. Caught a train to Tangier. We contemplated staying here for the night but decided merely to have lunch at a downtown café recommended by two fellow passengers on the train. So we caught a taxi, found the café and tried out some of the local servings.

We also walked through a town square overlooking the port. This was a very hectic area. Lots of traffic of all kinds. We got directions and decided we could walk to the ferry port. Whew!! A very windy roadway through an area crowded with little shops. Mind you, we were dragging a small rolling back and backpack each. But we made it just in time to catch the ferry (which was very nice) and make our way to Spain!  
 **** Side note here**** if we appear in all of these photos in the same clothes, it is true. We did our best to pack lightly. We washed out things in motel bathrooms and I'm happy to say the only items neither of us used was the bathing suits. Turned out, the weather everywhere was just a little nippy for swimming. In fact, in later pictures, you may notice we look a little "thicker" because we were wearing two layers of shirts plus sweaters and jackets.

Anyway, here is our ferry and us riding comfortably inside.

We landed in Algeciras, Spain. This was the fort located at the port. We chose not to tour but boarded a bus to take us in to town.



 

This was the first of many, many fields of wind turbines we were to see while in Spain.

We were delivered to our hotel which faced the port where the shipping containers were being

off-loaded and loaded. While it was very industrial, it was also well lit at night and sort of pretty.

 

This was the view from our hotel room and now began our adjustment to life in Spain. We went to our first restaurant to enjoy Tapas, but made the mistake of going at 7:30pm. They did serve us and it was very good, but truly I am not even sure they were open for business. We did go later to another café and eat a Tapas and have a glass of wine - now about 10pm and the place was quite busy.

 

Our other new experience was to go to the department store, locate an ATM and get some Euros. Don't laugh, but using an ATM is not something we are used to doing (just not something we have ever chosen to use at home), so we thought the event was worth memorializing in a photo.

 

We then crashed. It had been a long day and the next day was to be our trip over to Gibraltar.