https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:26:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/christmas-in-canada-2023/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:24:00 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=62890 December 20th, 2023 5 more sleeps! We were up early to walk over to the airport from the parking lot at the Casablanca airport (where we’d spent the night) at 6am – 3 hours before our flight.  We’d also just learned that the flight was delayed 20 minutes already! As the Air Canada app yesterday […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/north-along-the-atlantic-coast-morocco/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 08:23:37 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=62624 November 29th, 2023 We left the small city of Tarfaya in the far south of Morocco after our walk on the beach and headed back north.  We’d seen this campground on our way south but it was on the wrong side of the road – it’s slowly being covered in sand!  Maybe hasn’t been used […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/on-to-marrakech-and-the-sahara-desert-morocco/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:32:30 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=62274 November 22nd, 2023 We left our little wild camp early today as we again wanted to do about 200 km / 124 mi with several stops enroute.  We continued southwest to the Dadés Gorge. The highway part of the drive was pretty unspectacular  but when we turned off and headed up the river gorge, there […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/on-to-the-dunes-morocco/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:57:37 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=62265 November 14th, 2023 After a pretty quiet night at the campground outside Fez (where 18 other vehicles were also spending the night) we showered in the ablution block, emptied, dumped and filled our tanks and went on our way.  Today we are heading sort of northwest to the outer most edge of the Roman Empire!  […]]]> 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/gibraltar-uk/ Mon, 06 Nov 2023 09:38:36 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=62030 November 6th, 2023 Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.  It is bordered to the north by Spain and on all other sides by the Mediterranean sea.  The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, at the foot of which is a densely populated […]]]> 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 […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/andorra/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 15:26:29 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=60494 October 14th, 2023 Got a short one for you today – enjoy! Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country and microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been created by Charlemagne, Andorra was ruled by the count of Urgell until 988, when it was transferred to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urgell. The present principality […]]]>