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Yesterday was indeed an exciting day. It started off with an early morning rise to catch a train to La Linea, which is the border town between Spain and Gibraltar. I always thought that the rock was a continuous ridge that went all the way down to the end of Gib, but no, its not. It really is just a rock on a peninsula.
The trip up was scenic, and thats when we realized that it was Polish day or something like that in GBZ. We heard Polish the whole day and walked around with a couple from Warsaw. We hung around the top, teased the apes and mlarvelled at the fact that you can walk around the whole top of the rock with sheer 400m cliffs at your feet. As we explored, we came across the Mediterranean steps on the south side and started going down. Well, we kept going down until we realized that going back up would be imossible. I contemplated killing Jerry for putting m through this, but later thought it was a great calorie-burning experience. 426m of vertical descent on a loose rocky path is definitely a memory to share with the grandkids one day.
I was kinda hoping for some stamps in my passport from the side trip to GBZ but we were just waved through with no delay. What followed really pissed me off though. The bus from the border to the port at Algeciras is supposed to run every 30 min, but this time it was over an hour late and we wound up missing the fast ferry to Tangier because of that. Instead, we had to take an ageing Moroccan registered truck ferry at 9pm, arriving in Tangier well after midnight. And let me tell you that arriving in Tangier at midnight in the dark is not a pleasant experience. It kinda reminds me of shopping at Future Shop, where a mob of salespeople descends on you and tries to sell you everything. It didnt help that we were the only non Moroccans on the ferry, among maybe 10 or so walk on passengers. There were more umm.... helpful people waiting at the gates than passengers. The entire walk to the hotel we were followed and hounded for offers of cab rides and cheaper hotels and the like. Future Moroccan travelers beware... get there in daylight on a fast ferry.
The live runway you have to cross to get into Gibraltar
The trip up was scenic, and thats when we realized that it was Polish day or something like that in GBZ. We heard Polish the whole day and walked around with a couple from Warsaw. We hung around the top, teased the apes and mlarvelled at the fact that you can walk around the whole top of the rock with sheer 400m cliffs at your feet. As we explored, we came across the Mediterranean steps on the south side and started going down. Well, we kept going down until we realized that going back up would be imossible. I contemplated killing Jerry for putting m through this, but later thought it was a great calorie-burning experience. 426m of vertical descent on a loose rocky path is definitely a memory to share with the grandkids one day.
I was kinda hoping for some stamps in my passport from the side trip to GBZ but we were just waved through with no delay. What followed really pissed me off though. The bus from the border to the port at Algeciras is supposed to run every 30 min, but this time it was over an hour late and we wound up missing the fast ferry to Tangier because of that. Instead, we had to take an ageing Moroccan registered truck ferry at 9pm, arriving in Tangier well after midnight. And let me tell you that arriving in Tangier at midnight in the dark is not a pleasant experience. It kinda reminds me of shopping at Future Shop, where a mob of salespeople descends on you and tries to sell you everything. It didnt help that we were the only non Moroccans on the ferry, among maybe 10 or so walk on passengers. There were more umm.... helpful people waiting at the gates than passengers. The entire walk to the hotel we were followed and hounded for offers of cab rides and cheaper hotels and the like. Future Moroccan travelers beware... get there in daylight on a fast ferry.
The live runway you have to cross to get into Gibraltar
posted by Wally at 2:15 p.m.
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The scenes are beautiful, the models are ... :)
Iris
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