Day 13 – Algeciras

I thought that last night we were leading a couple of the vans to go and get a last fill up with LPG and then on to the over night stop at Lidl. I had said that I wanted to leave at 10:30am. As it turned out we were the last to leave the campsite and were alone. However when we arrived at the fuel station for LPG there were the 2 vans I thought that we would have been leading. After gassing up I did indeed lead the vans down to the supermarket.

Once paper work and money handed over we set about gathering in the things we needed from the nearby supermarkets. First it was a shopping trip to Mercadoa for the basics. However we didn’t see the water and beer and one or two other things we wanted so we then visited Lidl later in the afternoon. The van now loaded to the gunnels. I really hope they don’t stop us as we would be well over weight.

Tickets now received and we are all set for the off in the morning… leaving bright and early at 8:30am. I will have to get Tina up earlier for her medication.

Later in the evening we had our habitation door open and a young backpacker lad came to the door and asked if we could boil some eggs for him. On getting them out he broke one of the six eggs so Tina replaced it and proceeded to boil them. He next got out some bread and we offered him some butter and salt. Tina cooked an extra piece of fish whilst cooking our supper and offered him this with some potato. He was grateful for some hot cooked food. He explained that he was from Lithuania and was hoping to go to Morocco but had lost most of his money. He was now on his way east and up the coast. He spoke very good english and explained that he had worked as a waiter in Ireland for a time. On leaving I offered him the cake that we had received with our ferry tickets which he gratefully received. He took our email address and stated that he might visit England in the summer. We always seem to experience things like this. Last year we met an english guy and his moroccan wife whilst visiting morocco.

Late in the evening Carlos who sold us the tickets came looking for us and took Terry in his car to the port explaining that a lorry had overturned and blocked the main entrance tunnel to the port. He shows Terry an alternative route if the tunnel remained blocked in the morning. We will see!!!

Tomorrow we leave Spain for Morocco