Blogs from Tangier-Tétouan, Morocco, Africa - page 11

An diesem Tag bin ich mit der Bahn von Cordoba nach Algeciras gefahren und habe dort die Fähre nach Tanger Med, dem Fährhafen von Tanger außerhalb der Stadt, genommen. Dort angekommen habe ich Geld getauscht (was man vielleicht vorher machen sollte) und bin in den Bus ins Stadtzentrum gestiegen. Leider war es schon dunkel und es hat von Marokkanern gewimmelt, die Touristen als ihre Einkommensquelle sehen (ich nenne diese "Blutsauger"). In Tanger habe ich problemlos ein Taxi zum Hotel bekommen, wenn man mal ignoriert, dass marokkanische Taxis mit deutschen nicht vergleichbar sind. Im Hotel habe ich dafür ein gutes Abendessen bekommen.... read more

So I wrote a whole blog yesterday, but for some reason it decided to delete itself, probably to punish me for not updating for so long. Anyhow, the past two weeks have been pretty crazy. I have started my new classes, ranging from French Literature to Modern Standard Arabic, and all last about 2 or 3 hours twice a week. Class is long and tiring but really beneficial. I have gotten pretty good at drawing camels as my stay-awake tactic in class. As far as last weekend goes, my friends and I went on a trip to Tangiers and Asilah. Tangiers is a city right on the coast and is very close to Spain, in fact you can see Spain when you are standing on the beach. It was a really fun city and the medina ... read more

Last night we went out for dinner to try the local food. Not really sure about which one to choose, we went for the most popular, which was Cafe Nord. The seating is out on the grass facing the beach, and service is very relaxed. Dave and I put this down to us being too used to fast food places like Pizza hut, where if they take more than 35 minutes we start huffing. But the food was great and of course cheap, i think the bill for four drinks, two chips and two big pizzas came to less than £20 total. After that we wandered a bit further down the street, then crossed over and walked next to the beach back to the campsite. Unfortunately the campsite is out of season, as the swimming pool ... read more

Day 30 - 38km. Ksar-es-seghir- Tanger In the morning i cycled through Tanger, bought a ticket to Tarifa (S). I found a campsite just outside Tanger. I took taxi to the caves of Hercules. Well, nothing special. There are 2 caves and they charge you twice. It was very cheap but still... I took taxi back to my campsite. The driver coulden't find it. We drove around for more than an houre. Finally we found it. I still got time to visit Tangier but i was so sick of the heat and all that dirt that i stayed at the campsite. In the evening i went to the restaurant, i ordered chips with steak with alpine spices and moroccan salad. Steak was just some kind of kebab with no spices. It was tasty and enough to ... read more

Given we had ridden so many amazing routes during our tenure in Morocco we could hardly be disappointed that today’s ride wasn’t one of them. We had elected to head for Larache, which sounded a pleasant enough Atlantic coast resort and allegedly had a top end boutique hotel, the Hotel Riad which would offer a welcome change from the sub-backpacker standard of our smelly Meknes Riad. Studying the map we felt it would be far more interesting to cut through the countryside rather than sit on a dull motorway via Rabat but we needn’t have bothered. If Morocco is some kind of world centre for sh*t driving then the epicentre of sh*tness had to be Tangier. As you drew closer to Tangier so it seemed the worse the standards of driving became. We had ridden through ... read more