My first steps in Africa came via ferry from Gibraltar. The passport control line was ‘everyone go visit this guy sitting in the corner’, which seemed very official, and I was off the ferry into Tangier with a passport stamp. We’d booked a hostel in the Medina (old city), and the streets are largely unnamed…
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From Portugal, we drove over to Gibraltar, which was a nice drive. The traffic to cross the border was a huge headache, because we not only had passport control, we also had to wait while they closed the main road in/out, because it crosses the airport runway, and a plane was taking off soon. Zzzzz……
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We flew Ryanair to Faro for a few days the week between Christmas and New Year. Surprisingly, we had a reservation at a hostel but showed up to find it locked. Someone at a store nearby told us that family always goes out of town for the holidays / shocked that we had a reservation…
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