The challenge: 6 cities and 3 countries in 20 hours.
Leave Sevilla in the morning, arrive at the La Linea/Gibraltar border by 12pm, spend 3-4 hours in Gibraltar, take a bus to Algeciras, catch the 6pm ferry to Tangiers, Morocco, catch the 9pm overnight train to Fez.
To get from Seville to Gibraltar you have a 3 options:
1) Take the public bus, the earliest of which leaves at 9:30am. It takes 4.5 hours to get to Gibraltar, which technically wastes 2.5 hours of our day.
2) Hire a private driver via Totally Spain, which is flexible on pickup time, safe, and can get to Gibraltar in 2 hours. More expensive option ($60-$70 USD a person)
3) Drive on your own and hire a rental car, but deal with the fact you have to know manual and buy insurance.
We had a group of 8 people who didn’t know how to drive manual. And time was of the essence: We went with #2.
And what a pretty drive:
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who noticed:
- At time of posting in Gibraltar, it was 51.8 °F -
Humidity: 71% | Wind Speed: 5km/hr | Cloud Cover: n/a
Yes! I can see what I missed while sleeping.
The fire is probably controlled to get rid of the dead plants. If the dead plants weren’t burned, it would pose a fire hazard that might spark a fire on its own and kill the crops/surrounding greenery.