Now we really suffer for not having our guidebook. The streets are a terrible maze and the odd no-entry policy w/ cameras filming your car plates makes it difficult to get in the Cathedral vacinity. Granada really protects its heritage and tries to minimize the congestion in its Antiquity center. We burn more time and miss the Cathedral and museums before close, but fortunately there is a mass on and we enter as parishoners. Lyn and I believe the Cathedral in G...

The day the girls dread.  Drive to Granada and look at decaying buildings and chipped paintings!!   Lyn and I pack them in by 10 am and spin the tale of the Moors and Christians....explaining the Alhambra is one of the most treasured and preserved monuments of Europe.   The scenery is beautiful en route (mountainous olive and almond groves)and we make it from Marbella to Granada in 1:45 hrs.     We have a 2 pm entry ticket which I fortunately ordered a...

The Tarifa jet ferry has customs on board, so disembarking is a breeze into Morocco. Plus...the ferry is nearly empty. We note we are the only Americans, but there are some Westerners from Canada. Out of the port there is the throng of guides as expected. I see two guys w/ signs held up "Welcome Mauros". One looks a bit rough w/ "Terminator" sunglasses. The second guy's appearance isnt much better, but next to him is a very well dressed Moroccan gentlem...

Tired from Granada return at 1 am....we drag out of the Marriott Marbella at 11 am, faced with missing our 1 pm ferry to Tangiers. Sometime the first day at the Marriott, a maid or the maintenance guys fixing our drain took $300 I left on our credenza in the Master bedroom. Being a vacation ownership, I didn't realize they'd have room service each day to refresh towels, otherwise I'd have locked it up. The Marriott namesake gives a false sense of ...

Abdul's tour into the Medina or old walled city of Tangier was probably the most intimidating and interesting part of the trip for the girls. We get out of the mini-bus and go on foot for a sensory overload.   Abdul is the voice of social consciousness and Morrocan tolerance. I get a chuckle as he needs to point out every modernism and sign of religion outside of Islam. We're here to see the "Old Morocco", but Abdul makes sure we understand how accep...