Blogs from Algeciras, Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 2

it´s late and we had a full travel day .... quite uneventful.... 11 hours of travel, but great connections ... Barcelona to Madrid to Cordoba to Algaciras ...3 trains but only about 40 minutes between trains We´re in Algaciras now, the hotel is nice ! We are booked for our fast ferry to Morocco tomorrow !! ---- That´s AFRICA !! I´ll blog more then. Blessings.. talk soon !! ... read more

Of course Gene would insist that we catch the first ferry out at the crack ass of dawn. To top that, Nervous Nancy felt the need to set the alarm clock for 5:00 a.m., two hours prior to the departure of the ferry for Spain. Good thing my husband is so punctual - we arrived at the port promptly at 6:00 a.m. to find the ticket office closed. The look on my face said it all. Gene, ignoring the fact that we didn’t have so much as a place to sit, suggested “we” grab some coffee (I don’t drink coffee) while we wait for the office to open. Gene began to grow fidgety in his rickety folding chair as the clock ticked past 6:30 a.m. and nobody had opened the doors to the ticket office. More ... read more

From Berlin I headed straight to southern Spain. Flying through Malaga, I arrived in Algeciras three days before the wedding of my step brother Peter Gaffney. We stayed in a tremendous bed and breakfast that we had exclusive use of for the first week. Just outside Algeciras in Pelayo, it was a short drive to Tarifa or Algeciras. The wedding was very intimate, held at a small church in town called Iglesia de Santisimo Corpus Christi. The dinner and reception were fantastic and a surprising number of guests were able to stay up until 6am dancing, smoking and of course drinking tinto de veranos (red wine with seltzer and lemon), valentines (whiskey with orange fanta), and cervezas (cruzcampo). After the wedding we spent another week just lounging, enjoying wonderful food, beaches, and sun. A stop at ... read more

I will make this journal my viaje journal while I am in Granada. On the first weekend of Oct. 7-9 ISA had a planned trip to Valencia, a coastal town northwest of Granada. It was a very rich and pretty city. The beaches were nice and the water was freezing. It happened to be their patron saint day on Saturday so Saturday night they had a huge fireworks display, it was a lot of fun. On the weekend of Oct. 14-16 Robert and I took a train to Algeciras where we got a hostal for the night. There we met an old retired national police officer. He was so excited that we were americans becuase his tio era de Texas. So, he took us first to a tapas bar for cena where he knew everyone and ... read more

Gestern war erstmal hardcore feiern angesagt und so kam ich erst gegen 7 zum wohlverdienten Schlaf. Heute dann der vorerst letzte Tag am Kite konnte wieder mit einigen Highlights aufwarten: mehr Wind und mehr Wellen als je zuvor, unzaehlige neue Tricks probiert, neuen persoenlichen Hoehen- u Airtimerekord (paar mal hat ich ganz schoen Muffensausen), die zwei ersten gestandenen 360er und den ersten Backflip. Insgesamt gaben 8 Tage rund 24 Stunden reine Kite-Zeit her =)) Abends gabs dann wieder ein bisserl Kultur riesen Umzug durch die Stadt zu Ehren der "Virgina de la Luz" und zur Beendung des hiesigen Volksfests. Handvoll neuer Leute kennengelernt und zu zehnt gross schlemmen gegangen; wenn es einen von Euch mal nach Tarifa verschlagen sollte, besucht unbedingt die Tapas Bars in der Alstadt, besonders lecker: Los Mellis. Zusammen mehrere Bars, Clubs und ... read more