Showing posts with label transit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transit. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sailing past Gibraltar
















After one final bocadillo de jamon (a Spanish ham sandwhich -- there's a story here ... I'll tell you later) Scott and I got on the Algeceris - Tangier ferry. We selected the "fast ferry" for the trip. Unfortunately, the boat was delayed a hour, which makes it the same overall speed as the slow ferry. The slow ferry, however, was delayed more than two hours. As we left the dock, we sailed past Gibraltar with its huge fortified cliff facing the Spanish mainland.

The train in Spain ...


... runs mainly in the plain.  Yesterday, Scott and I got up early to take the 7:15AM Renfe Media Distancia train from Granada, Spain to Algeciras, Spain. A true bargain at under 25 Euro. Algeciras is a rough-around-the-edges port city on southern coast of Spain. One cool fact: You can see the enormous Rock of Gibraltar towering in the distance off to one side of the city as your train rolls into the station.