Arrived here yesterday, after catching the red-eye Renfe train from Granada to Algeciras. Up at 5.15 a.m. so that we could get the 6.45 train. Arrived in Tangier early afternoon and landed at this delightful guesthouse, Dar Yasmine, where I write now from the restaurant overlooking the port where our ferry came in.
We looked around the medina and the kasbah yesterday, and then had a Moroccan feast at a restaurant in the medina. We tasted all the iconic dishes: pastilla (a chicken pie finished with icing sugar!), couscous, tajine, and lots of dips and different breads (which I can't name).
Today we went for a taxi tour of the new areas of Tangier. We saw the place where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea. (I couldn't really see the difference: not like there was a different colour or anything ; )
The Clingon pestered the guide, Abdel, with questions about his most recent linguistic project: Moroccan Arabic.
Tomorrow, we're off with the local bus to Chefchaouen in the mountains. Here in Tangier it's been quite balmy. (The Clingon insisted on wearing shorts for our tour today, after we sat in the roof garden in full sunshine this morning.) Tomorrow we'll be shivering in the blue town.
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Location:Tanger Médina,Morocco
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