Managed to get through customs in 20 minutes (the only question was if we carry firearms, the only suspicious box the one with Janos’ vegan food) and to get to our hotel.

Its extremely windy outside and around 10°C cold, I think we will spend the afternoon in the shower instead of walking around Tanger.

The few (in previous years always dry) riverbeds we saw on  the way from the port were all full of water, better suited for rafting than for crossing by cars. Let’s see how many of those we have to cross in the next days.

… expect arrival in Africa at 6:15am. Expect having passed all border checks around 10am.

In the morning we did some sightseeing in Barcelona: visited Gaudi’s famous church La Sagrada Familia and had a walk in the city center.  In 1999 when I last saw La Sagrada Familia, it was only 4 towers in the middle of a huge construction site. Meanwhile it has been turned into a very impressive church (still in the middle of a construction site,  completion is planned for 2026, almost 150 years after the beginning of the work).

In contrast the Rambla (pedestrianized main street of Barcelona) did not change at all, full of overpriced souvenir shops and restaurants.
We stopped at a Turkish restaurant a few streets away from the main drag and enjoyed our first warm meal since Thursday.

Around 2pm we left for Algeciras, the ferry port to Morocco. We are not yet there because of lots of rain and slippery roads (we even saw some snow on the road today), we will take a short nap now at a petrol station 50kms ahead of the port.