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Feeling the heat near Madrid, midday
Leaving Paris for Algeciras

June 28th 2008
Our Eurolines bus took us halfway across Europe from the Paris suburbs to the Spanish port of Algeciras, beside Gibralter on the Southern tip of Spain. We passed through endless French countryside in the evening, stopping in a peaceful lay-by in the shade of some windmills where plums were ripe on the trees beside the road. As night closed in, we crossed the Pyrenees to San Sebastian, where the ol ... read more
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