Day 62 Travel back to Spain
Moving day today and getting back to Spain. I have been working about this day and crossing the border with Tucker for a couple of weeks.
We serviced the van and paid our 300MAD for the 3 nights camping which included electric (£8.50 per night) and we were on our way around 10:45am knowing that we would hope to get the ferry early afternoon.
We travelled up to Tangier Med via the toll road and paid 71MAD for the privilege. I stopped to top up the fuel tank as it is substantially cheaper in Morocco at £1.10 per litre.
We got to the port at just gone midday and then queued for the return ferry ticket. We got booked on to the 4pm ferry after waiting in the queue for over an hour. Next we changed our Dirhams for Euros and then on to the lengthy formalities of passport control and Customs. As usual it took an age getting through that and then the X-ray machine. We were sitting on the quayside at around 2pm expecting along wait.
It was after 5pm before they started to load us. The boat was not a roll on roll off as you expect across the English Channel. Instead you drive on and turn around on the car deck ready to exit when we get to our destination. We expected that the boat would leave soon after we got aboard as we were one of the last however it must have been at least 45 minutes before we left port at around 6:30pm.
The crossing took approximately 90 minutes and we were disembarking the boat and yet again going through Customs and Police Passport control. It always seems to take longer than you expect. We finally exited the port and no notice was taken of Tucker so I needn’t have worried. Relief!!
I took a grab of the milage when we were sitting on the quayside in Tangier Med and it read 20788. When we left home the milage was 17067 so we have travelled to date 3721 miles and still have the 1500 miles return journey to the UK.
Now parked up close to the travel agent where we bought our ticket at the beginning of January and in readiness to visit Mercadona to replenish our supplies tomorrow