From Fes To Tangier And On To Spain...

Alas our time in Morocco was fast coming to an end.  After our wonderful evening the night before, we had to get up very early the next morning to get the train to Tangier, and then the ferry back to Spain.  So we got a petit taxi to the station and then just made the train with a few moments to spare... unfortunately though we had to change stations at one point - but there are no announcements on the train, and there only seems to be one sign - which of course Murphy's law dictates that our carriage would never pull up in front of so we could actually see where we are!  Fortunately the ticket collector checked our ticket just before we had to get off the train, and told us we were to get off at the next stop.

We had an hour or so wait til the train to Tangier, so we had a coffee and then watched Star Wars on the Zen.  We didn't have set seating on this train and everywhere was full!  We ended up in the very last carriage, which was actually quite comfortable - until someone got on at one of the stations with a chicken!  Luckily it only squwarked every now and then... when the train bumped a bit... so it wasn't as annoying as it might've been...

We got to Tangier and then had to get a petit taxi to the ferry port, but the bloke was being very difficult about the fare.  We told him we only had 20 dirhams, and he wasn't going to take us, but he eventually relented - although he drove around looking for another passenger to pick up too, to make up his fare - and then proceeded to chastise us the whole way to the ferry port for ripping him off.  To be honest, I was getting pretty annoyed by it, and thought it ironic that at the end he asked us what we thought of Morocco (my opinion had obviously gone down by this point because of his mini-lecture).  But we paid up and raced off to the ferry ticket office - and luckily made the next (fast) ferry to Tarifa!

This time the weather was good, and the crossing was very smooth.  From there we had to get the bus to Algeciras, but then we missed the bus to Seville and had to wait for quite a while for the next one.

We eventually arrived back in Seville at the hostel at 11pm, absolutely shattered...