When it’s only 1 hour by ferry, it’s hard to pass up the opportunity of spending our 31st wedding anniversary in Tangier. We’ve had a marvelous two days, relaxing at Pierre’s fantastic rooftop Airbnb, wandering the alleys of the medina, and sampling Moroccan food/mint tea/coffee etc. We booked a guide the first day, who gave us an informative walking tour, including pastry and tea stops, and the inevitable carpet showroom 😄. I don’t think they understood our reluctance to buy one, as peregrinos walking with backpacks is not their usual target market.
Tangier is great. At no time did we feel unsafe, despite heading out of the usual tourist area, and the hustlers were less assertive than expected – although it is a city where everyone wants to be your tour guide! Generally, if you are polite, they will be equally polite (funny how that works).
Here’s a selection of pics:
Tangine – traditional (and delicious) Moroccan stew. The fries….. not quite so traditional.Anniversary lunch at an authentic and frantically busy Moroccan restaurant. They don’t often get tourists here!
In 2009, we embarked on a one-year family sailing adventure aboard a Grand Soleil 39, "SV Mulan". Our original sailing blog is linked on this site.
In 2017, Susan, Andrew, Sam & Max walked the Camino Frances from St-Jean-Pied-de-Porte to Santiago de Compostella (and rode bikes from Burgos to Leon as a blister recovery strategy), and in 2018 Jack also joined the crew as we waled the northern section of the Camino Portuguese from Porto to S de C.
In 2019 Andrew, accompanied by Max for the first few hundred kms, and Susan for the Tiscan section, walked the via francigena from Canterbury to Rome. That journey is blogged in this site.
This blog is planned as an alternative to the endless instagram posts used previously to communicate with those interested in our travels - although there is a linked instagram account as well!
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Happy Anniversary Andrew and Susan! The food and photos look gorgeous. Have fun. Jamie
2saunter 
Happy Anniversary Andrew and Susan! The food and photos look gorgeous. Have fun. Jamie
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