Timeless Tanger

Its been warm and sunny all day. We had driven many miles yesterday and ended up in the Lidl car park next to the ticket office at Algeciras by 6 pm. Very tired but happy to be at the port, well Lidl! We purchased our tickets to Tanger and settled in for the night, looking forward with excitement to the journey in the morning. The sun shone brightly as we sat in line for our crossing. Soon we were Morocco bound but after only 1 hour we pulled into what we were expecting to be Tanger. A brand new port was what we found and after sitting at customs for several hours we found ourselves in the countryside with no sign of Tanger! In fact, a signpost read 48 kms to the city. We were nowhere near our expected destination and were cruising on a new motorway to get to town. Nobody thought of mentioning to us that the ferry no longer goes to the old haven for gays and pot smokers. Giving them some space we assume.

So, after some serious driving through the city streets, he who hesitates is definitely taken no notice of, we parked near the Medina ( found by pure chance! or was it? ) and walked with an air of 'don't want it, no thank you', politely as possible and avoided all invites to be taken down dark alleys. Our objective was food and internet usb key and we got them both. We wandered the streets first mind, lost as could be ( well in our minds only ) but found superb fish dinner followed by usb stick, which was made the easier by a charming young man, who helped us in english decipher the complexities of us dealing with such a thing as an internet key with a shop assistant who only appeared to speak Arabic!! He sorted us out, shook our hands and wished us '' Welcome to Morocco ''. It can't get better than that, can it?

Well, the car park attendant sat with us in the van to direct us to the campsite! He too showing a hospitality that rates with the best, so we gave him a couple of quid and you'd have thought we'd given him a pension. He was overjoyed.

So the 'Dream' goes on.

As we sit here in the campsite, eating olives and oranges, we wish you all ( ? ) a very good night