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...
Following our rearranged schedule, we took the morning train to Tangier. This is the newly developed fast train line up the west coast of Morocco, developed along with the French and using TGV style trains. The trip was very smooth, though slightly predictably ran around 20 minutes late. In Tangier we had booked into the IBIS, less than a ten minute walk from the...
OK, so we weren’t actually tacking to Tangier, but we were on a boat. There is no train from Cadiz to Tarifa, so we caught the bus down first thing in the morning. It was then about a twenty minute walk to the ferry port at Tarifa. The name “Tarifa” is actually derived from the Umayyad Caliphate military commander, Tarif ibn Malik, but the current...