Today we're moving the
short distance down to Los Palmones, near Algeciras, to meet up with
a small group of Funsters we're taking across to Morocco. After
breakfast we made sure all the tanks were sorted as we're definitely
off grid tonight and maybe tomorrow too, then headed firstly to Los
Barrios and a Repsol fuel station to top off the gas bottles. That
done we headed to Los Palmones and realised that we were going to
need some fuel as we didn't have enough to get to the first fuel
station in Morocco. Sorted that then took the opportunity to give
Bertie a good wash down before driving across to the meeting point
and finding three crews already there; the last arrived just after
us. A general round of greetings, chat etc before we walked over to
the ticket agency to sort out a ferry crossing for tomorrow.
Carlos Guitterez, the
owner of Viages Normande who are the “goto” people for
motorhomers (they literally do hundreds of ferry tickets every week),
was supposed to have retired a couple of years ago but still manages
to get in the way of his daughters who run the place now. We knew
what we wanted, he knew what we wanted but we spent a few minutes
going round in circles in Spanish, French and a little English, but
then walked out 10 minutes later with tickets for the 10.00 am
Balearic ferry at the price Terry had arranged for MotorhomeFun
members months ago! €180 was supposed to be a discounted rate and
he made great emphasis that we should tell anybody else who asked
that the price was €200, but we know he almost always charges €180
anyway so we just humoured him. He is a great guy though and we did
each get a gift bag with a bottle of cider and packet of chocolate
biscuits.
Returned to the vans
and invited the group to a meal later at the City Wok before
everybody headed off in different directions for various things,
mostly shopping at one or other of the large supermarkets around the
retail park. Then relax until we met up with most of the group again
for a stroll down to the restaurant. City Wok is a self-service,
all-you-can-eat place for a very reasonable fixed price (plus drinks
of course) with a large variety of tempting dishes that is sure to
please virtually anybody. And the sweets counter is to die
for.....................!
Fully sated we wandered
back to the vans, ready for an early start in the morning.
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