Algeciras-next stop Morocco!

We are parked up tonight in a car park on a massive retail park. We've bought our tickets to Morocco and set off tomorrow on the 10am ferry along with half of France by the look of things. I can count thirty five Motorhomes just in this car park, there are more parked around the corner at Lidl and even more scattered around. They all, apart from us, have French number plates. We've watched them returning from the big supermarkets here with trolleys full of beer and wine. We've stocked up as well but, unfortunately, the size of our van precludes us actually loading a trolley full although I suppose if we hadn't bought any food.....

The journey here today from Granada was, on reflection, mildly amusing. We knew that Carlos, who sells the ferry tickets, had an office next to the Lidl here in Algeciras. Paul and I found two Lidls on our sat navs so we each programmed one in, we had been told that we would know we there by all the Motorhomes parked up. We arrived at the first one, tiny car park, no Motorhomes. Drove to the second one, even smaller car park, no Motorhomes. Back to the sat navs, with Carlos's GPS co-ordinates and even more Lidl addresses and after another 10minutes there we were. Massive Lidl car park with about twenty Motorhomes parked up. Into Carlos's office and five minutes later and €200 lighter we left with our tickets and a bottle of sparkling cider and a lemon cake as a gift. We could have bought our tickets at one of many agents which line the routes here and are all signposted of the main roads and autoroutes but Carlos is recommended by many folk who have travelled by Motorhome to Morocco and he provides all the necessary documentation to ease our entry into N Africa.

So, an early start tomorrow, we need to be at the port a couple of hours before sailing time and then the adventure begins. I'm sure driving through Morocco will be an experience and I'm glad we will have Paul and Chris for company and reassurance. I doubt they feel the same after watching me drive the wrong way down two no entry roads today (it was just a ploy really so they would lead the way in future).

I probably won't update this blog for a few days now until I can get a Moroccan SIM card so please don't panic and call the foreign office if you don't hear from us for a bit. Next stop-Morocco!!!

 

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