The Streets of Tarifa

Tarifa in the rain!

Ok so a word about the european towns and the lack of grass for the dogs to do their thing on.

Tarifa is no exception, its so hot here that there is concrete everywhere from the roads to the sidewalks to the parks etc. so needless to say if there is no grass for the dogs guess where they go, on the concrete and people here are not used to picking up after them so below is a picture of me washing my flip flop in the town fountain as you guessed it "i stepped in dog shit" ewhhhh!

Summary of Northern Spain and Portugal

Well the north is dry and hot, and I mean hot, quite flat lots of golden straw fields and the route we took was good because no one on the roads and we could still blast along quite fast. Strange thing about Spain is that you will go for miles and miles with nothing and then, boom a big city appears in the middle of nowhere. So far Northern Spain and Portugal are not my favourite places when it comes to landscape and food, in spain the tapas were questionable how long they had been sitting and i find them quite fattening and in Portugal they seem to serve big meals of meat and veg cooked varying different ways, lots of cheap red wine and the beer about $4 per pint, gas prices $1.10.

Looking forward to southern Spain.

Our Route: From France at Biarritz to Pamplona over to El Burgo de Osma for the night, great place for a late night stopover because not much there, nice simple little town with a great walled village. Next to Salamenca , we loved this city a definate stop over for a few days, then camping in Tomar onto Nazare, then Lisbon where we had almost as much fun as Paris, then Salema which is a great beach town quite quiet too, then Seville, Zahara and finally Tarifa to catch the ferry to Morocco.

Accomodations: Salamenca stayed at the Ibis Hotel again. , campsite in Tomar was fun mostly because the people were so great and English speaking place called Camping Redondo $15euro per night litre beer $2 bonus! Cool set of 5 townhouses on the beach in Nazare, and the Ibis in Lisbon was the right price for a clean room and close to downtown at $58/night with underground parking. Selema was camping again c/w naturalist section if you wish, has good groc shop and restaurant too.

Seville a great hotel right in town called Hotel Puerto De Sevilla for $79 euro per night parked the bike at the back in underground secure parking.