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Category Archives: Spain

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Writing on the buses

  September 8, 2013 Africa, border, Encircle Africa, Europe, Gibraltar, public transport, Spain, UK

There seems to be a publishing equivalent of waiting for buses: I wait weeks for a bit of my work to move from the ‘accepted’ pile, only for two pieces to make it to the ‘published’ pile in a week. However long it takes, it’s great to see my name … Continue reading

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Closing the Encircle

  October 1, 2012 Africa, Encircle Africa, Europe, Gibraltar, Melilla, Morocco, Spain, UK

My legs aren’t too interested in Melilla’s hilliness. I take a direct route to what I had considered the fort, in fact Old Melilla, a series of 4 fortified precincts providing layer after layer of defence. Its not so much an old town as a giant castle rising and falling … Continue reading

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Avoiding Algeria

  September 28, 2012 Africa, Algeria, Encircle Africa, Europe, France, Spain, Tunisia, visa

With only 4 km between Tabarka and Algeria, I have to cross over to Europe. Algeria is one of those places that makes getting a visa very very hard. So I board the Carthage for Marseille, France. I nap until its more or less time for sunset at 6.15 that … Continue reading

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To Africa

  September 8, 2011 Africa, Encircle Africa, Gibraltar, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain, visa

  Africa from Gibraltar Confusingly, Morocco is 2 hours behind Gibraltar at the moment, meaning I arrived in Tangiers about 5 minutes before I departed Spain. Had a delicious Tagine for dinner, but that, together with the romanticism of the call of the muezzin with the golden sun bathing the … Continue reading

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