Sunday, Sept 15th, Tanger, Morocco

Greetings!

You may have noticed that the spelling for this city in the title is different.  I'm including the spelling that Morocco uses, and is on all signs in and out of the City.  It's believed the British got it wrong long ago.  Sheep are sold along the roads here, and Zak introduced us to some dealers and explained his experience in slaughtering them for special occasions.

We drove to this parking lot to meet and talk with some high school students who were planning on getting through the border of Morocco and Ceuta (a Spanish city on the northeastern tip of Africa).  They spoke of their frustration with their future in Morocco, and said they had friends who had established better ives in Spain.  Zak gave them some money from us, and we wished them luck.

We've been to the southern-most tip of Africa, and now the northernwestern-most (Cape Spartel), and heard our local guide (Mohammed) about the movement of the ocean and sea through the Straits of Gibralter.  Most agreed he looked and sounded like Jeff Goldblum.

We next traveled south to the Caves of Hercules, where, depending on whether you look at it from the sea or inside the cave, it either looks like a map of Africa, or a screaming head.  Also, cuttings were made from the walls to create stone wheels for grinding wheat.

And on October 23, 1995, Def Leppard played a concert here, in London, and in Vancouver on the same day (a Guinness Book World Record).

Later in the afternoon, Mohammed led us through Tanger's medina (old city), through more winding streets and alleyways, to an overlook of the marina and Atlantic.  Included were his favorite locations for popular film scenes, and tips on upcoming movie shoots taking place in the medina.

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