Faro (Portugal) + Sevilla (Spain)

I have to apologize now for the lack of photos since I couldn't load them up but all of them can be viewed on my snapfish account. I'll do it better later.

Leaving Lagos was hard since I had so much fun and made some really cool friends but gotta keep movin.

Faro was a short but super sweet stop to end my quick tour through Portugal. It's a big town but not too touristy and no big buildings so it's really nice. My buddy Gabe from London gave me the contact information of his friend Luis in Faro, whom he knew from montreal. So, I rang up Luis from Lagos and jetted to Faro to meet him and he cordially accepted to entertain and put a roof over my head for the night. He had to work and there was a pick up delay on my part so his girlfriend came and picked me up at the bus station. She had only been in town for a couple of days so we checked out the town together. She was super cool and there wasn't much in town since it was Sunday so we hit the beach for some sunny relaxin. Then there was a percussion festival so we checked out some live carribean style steel drum band in the street with some nice tasty refreshing beer.

Luis finished work and he made a huge friggin scrumptious steak-frites and I got a little 24 to keep us busy. Luis has an awesome pad that he shares with one other house-mate. 3 floors, 2 bathrooms and a crazy nice roof terrace looking over the city. After the sunset from his roof (So on my last day in Portugal, I saw the sunrise in Lagos and the sunset in Faro), we later went back to the beach to lay in the sand and chill with the waves and moon. We stayed up late even if Luis was working early the next morning.

What an awesome dude..........seriously. Invited me over and he and his girlfried totally took care of me. I love Portugese people.

Sevilla

I took the bus over to Sevilla and hooked up with 4 Aussie buddies on the bus that were coming over from Lagos. I originally met Chris and Cindy in Lisbon and again in Lagos, and Maggie and James in Lagos. We had a really chill time checkin out this simply beautiful and friggin hot town. It is worth all the hype.

Plaza d'Espagna is a huge place with an impressive semi-circular monument that represents all of the various spanish disrtricts with murals. There is also the beautiful Catedral and various parks and greeneries. After the Plaza, we grabbed some refreshments at a terrace bar (pic left) in the park with these elevated ( chinese royalty) bed style seats........really chillax. At night it was time to hit the Santa Cruz district for the infamous, awesome and cheap tapas and beer bars.

Sevilla is definately a place to check out.

I then left Sevilla for Tarifa on the southern tip of Spain, bordering the strait of Gibraltar and took the speed ferry across to Tangier Morocco in 45 minutes. I thus left Sevilla at 9 am, and was in Tangier about 6 hours later.........super quick.

Tune in next time for Morroco.

later y'all,

Raf