Tangier to Granada

A 4am start to get the early ferry crossing from Tangier to Tarifa and back onto Spanish soil. 800 km and 15 hours travelling including the ferry crossing today!! Apparently it is quite common for illegal immigrants to try and hide in the gap between the wheels of buses to try to get to Spain from Morocco. We saw some police being quite rough with such a man in Tangier. We drove past the Rock of Gibraltar, a British territory for the last 300 years and a tax haven, and along the Costa del Sol and much lusher vegetation. It has a lovely climate and apparently there are 170 golf courses in this region plus some very sumptuous mansions for the rich and famous.It is very touristy and developed, some of the beaches even have artificial sand. We lunched above Malaga, whose two most famous sons were Picasso and Anthony Banderos. A large area here was devastated by fire last September. We drove inland through rows and rows of olive trees, corn and asparagus with the typical white Spanish houses with tile orange tiled roofs.
Photos all taken from bus, hence poor quality. The blurry one is the Rock of Gibraltar in the distance!