February trip

February is our birthday month. Since we are so far away from our relatives and friends to celebrate together and since we had to “hop across the border” once again for a new stamp in our passport, we thought: make one of the two events. In addition, my sixtieth is a good reason for an extended celebration trip. And to dive deeper into culture, country and the understanding of the people…
So we took the ferry to Tarifa and back and then spent than two days in Tangier.

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From there we made a day trip to the “blue city”, Chefchauen.
Not only the city is impressive with the old buildings in blue and the stories that the city guide told us. The way there is great too. Hard to believe how green the mountains and fields are now that we’ve had a few rains. After having seen them in the summer drought it was hard to imagine! But we saw it…

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Before we took the TGV (high speed train) back to Rabat, we looked at Cap Spartel and the Hercules cave. At Cap Spartel, “the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic meet. That is impressive, the vastness of the sea, without end and with different shades of blue on each side….

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