Since deciding to visit Spain discussion has been had about whether to visit Morocco or not. We have been so undecided that we didn't even have Morocco printed on our T-Shirts. It was now decision time! Chris had no difficulty deciding - he was taking his bike to North Africa whether we went or not. We caught the 10am ferry to Tangier from Tarifa which is about 25km from our hotel at Algeciras. It takes one hour to cross the Straits of Gibraltar and it was a li...

The Rock of Gibraltar is at the bottom of Spain but it is not part of Spain - go figure! At the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, Spain ceded the territory of Gibraltar to Britain as part of a Peace Treaty. The territory is one of the most densely fortified and fought-over places in Europe. A large British naval base was constructed in Gibraltar at the end of the nineteenth century and this fact enabled the allies to control the entrance to the ...

After leaving Estoril we retraced our route towards Lisbon and crossed the Golden Gate Bridge, I mean the Ponte 25 de Abril to head south. We were going back to Albufeira for another night's stay in the same hotel as our last visit as the facilities were excellent and the price was right. As we rode in to town we were pulled over by the local GNR aka State military police (read Traffic Nazis) who suggested that our bike headlights were too bright. When the two of...

Today was to be an easy riding day, 20km around the coast to Cascais and then inland to Estoril before another 20 km to Sintra for a day of sightseeing. Sintra is a resort town in the foothills of Portugal's Sintra Mountains and is not far from Estoril, or Lisbon for that matter. Accommodation in Sintra and nearby Cascais was hard to find at a reasonable price so we settled on a great hotel in Estoril for the night. To our delight, we have a view out our hotel w...

After saying good-bye to our Beach Chalet at Rota we set off to explore Portugal for a few days. None of us know too much about this country so we are keen to find out more. We had to retrace our route a little back towards Seville but decided to navigate around this huge city rather than ride through it. We followed the freeway towards Huelva (Greg says it must be a hell-of-a place) and then crossed the border into Portugal. We had to stop to enter our credit ...