Farewell Morocco, hello Spain!

Our Morocco adventure ended today. We planned to take a ferry from Tangier to Tarifa. The weather had other ideas. Our 1 p.m. ferry was cancelled and we were told we’d leave at 6 p.m. from a pier a further distance away which would take us to a different Spanish city, Algeciras.

Our hotel arranged for a car to take us the port. We decided to go early to be sure we got tickets. The ferry ended up delayed and didn’t leave until 8:30 p.m. Fortunately, there were lovely people to chat with during the delay and the voyage. We had an hour time change so it was after midnight once we landed.

We had decided to stay in Cadiz, a small city of about 100,000 which we visited before and found charming. It was about a 90 minute Uber ride. But not when the Uber has a flat tire on the middle of the highway at 1:30 a.m.😫 The driver didn’t speak English and my Spanish is marginal. And he did’t have a spare tire 🤦‍♀️ (Thank heavens for Google Translate.)

By 2:30 a.m,. he had zero luck getting a tow truck out so he called the police for assistance. They gave him a cab company to call. The police then came to where we were and gave us an escort to a rest stop where the cab could come pick us up. We were finally on our way at 3:30 a.m. Brad and I had been hoping for a ride in a police car, but twas not to be.

A loooong day. But we’ve made it to Spain!🇪🇸Read more