It’s a fair old distance from Gibralter to Barcelona. I seem to remember the captain saying it was 420 nautical miles – but that might have been from Cádiz. Or it might have been the distance from Casablanca to Cádiz! …
9. CÁDIZ
On the way to Cádiz, while travelling almost due North, we seemed to have lost a couple of hours sleep. Interesting how national policies on time and “summer time” work to confuse us mortal travellers. Cádiz. A lovely city. Possibly…
8. CASABLANCA, MOROCCO
Our guide in Casablanca, whose name I couldn’t possibly spell, let’s call him Ali for short … … turns out to be completely blind. Novel for a guide! To be fair, he did have a minder to help him get…
7. AGADIR, MOROCCO
Well, we got off the Canary Islands just in time! The locals are revolting! Locals in the sun-kissed Spanish islands of Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria are claiming that tourism is destroying their economy. A protest is set to take…
6. LANZAROTE
Lanzarote, the Windy Island and, apparently, the oldest of the island group. The most recent islands are in the South-West. The older ones are drifting slowly to the North-East. But the volcanoes, although really old (like 200 million years old)…
5. GRAN CANARIA
I’m having to retype this section. A bit of a tragedy on the Internet front. It stopped yesterday. Stopped for EVERYBODY! The ship has a weirdly complicated system on board. Every cabin gets one account (at least) – the posher,…
4. TENERIFE
As usual, I’m getting impressively behind. As this is being written, I’m watching the African coast glide by some 8-10 miles off the starboard side. And although there is a bit of a swell, we are heading more or less…
3. MADEIRA
Hours at sea to come! Hours and hours. With an ‘interesting” rolling swell from the starboard side. Ten metre swell from somewhere out over the Eastern horizon. All the way from the Gulf of Mexico, possibly. And possibly only 10…
2. LISBON AND AWAY!
Our ship leaves Lisbon on Friday (tomorrow). But before then, our last day in the city dawns clear and sunny. But there’s a major disturbance on the roads outside the breakfast room window. 6,000 taxis have descended on Lisbon from…
1. Lisbon
Lisbon here we come! OK, I admit we set off from home a smidgeon early. But by Exeter, I was unsure where exactly my phone was. My “brain”! A brief diversion to Exeter services to check before heading back to…