Trip: Southern Spain + Morocco

We stayed one night in Casablanca, specifically to see the gleaming new Hassan II Mosque (and secondarily the enjoyable Sacre-Coeur Cathedral). We aimed for the 11am guided tour of the former this morning. We got a little lost on ou...

After our adventures in Gibraltar, we took advantage of our rental car and spent the rest of the afternoon driving along the Spanish coast towards the west. The scenery was beautiful after we passed Algeciras - lots of rolling hills an...

The little country of Gibraltar was quite a bit different than we expected. We imagined it to be a wealthy little British community, all quaint with red phone boxes and changing of the guard at a palace. The expectation of affluence ca...

My last post left off with us making last-minute plans to rent a car from Seville and use it to visit Cordoba, then get to the ferry port in Algeciras. I was really happy that this new plan would allow us to have a relaxing morning and...

After our wonderful stop in Cordoba (see previous post), the rest of the day was pretty uneventful, but I do have a few pictures and stories to share. In Cordoba we didn't feel we had time to stop and have tapas or a proper meal and...