From Tangier we started the trip home. This began with a taxi to the Tangier ferry port for the ferry across to Tarifa. This is the same ferry which we should have got a day earlier, but was cancelled due to the weather in the Straits of Gibraltar. We turned up fairly early, but it seems there was little point in doing this. We queued for security and then border...
The train to Madrid was a slower one. We got on at 9am and arrived (about 15 minutes late) at Madrid around 4pm. After some initial bemusement we worked out the way to the metro and managed, despite the best efforts of the machine, to buy a rechargeable card for the Metro. That seemed a little gratuitous given the small number of journeys we were likely to make, but...