https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:21:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/passing-through-northern-spain-to-get-to-france/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/passing-through-northern-spain-to-get-to-france/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:41:20 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=66240 March 25th, 2024 We crossed the border back into Spain across a river in the misty rain.  The clocks went forward to Central European time.  We stopped for cheap gas at the first exit (€1.37 a litre!) and then drove north on the toll roads to the city of Santiago de Compostela where the Cathedral […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/passing-through-northern-spain-to-get-to-france/feed/ 1 https://calderescapes.com/posts/back-to-spain-and-on-to-portugal/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:14:50 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=65695 March 11th, 2024 Hola España! As we crossed over the border “line” from Morocco, a police officer wanted to see our passports and then see inside Minou just in case someone climbed aboard in the twenty metres since we’d left Morocco! EU Immigration came first, and we were stamped back into the Schengen; then customs […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-get-back-to-morocco/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:48:44 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=65468 March 1st, 2024 We arrived safe and sound in Morocco from Dubai and after short line at immigration, had a long a$$ wait for our luggage.  For some reason they were using two baggage carousels at the Casablanca airport so we each monitored one.  Finally one bag showed up on the one Doug was watching, […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-are-now-in-africa-morocco/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:55:26 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=61985 November 7th, 2023 Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Cueta, Melilla and Peñon de Velez de […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/were-back-to-explore-more-of-spain/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:06:37 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=61320 Note: There will be two posts today as this one is not as long as most and the next, Gibraltar, is short.  November 1st, 2023 After arriving safely from the Canary Islands around 12:30 am back to Minou and sleeping okay, we were up after 8:30, unpacked, had tea and said our goodbye to our […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-canary-islands-spain/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:53:31 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=60927 October 25th, 2023 The Canary Islands, also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco. The islands have a population of 2.2 million people and are the most populous special territory of the EU.   The population is mostly […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-finally-get-to-spain/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 10:33:59 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=60527 October 15th, 2023 This is quite a long post, so get comfortable! Spain or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Mediterranean Sea and in Africa. It is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most […]]]>