Morocco and pilot whales seen in Tarifa

The weather forecast predicts beautiful and warm weather: Finally time to rent a bungalow at a campsite. We gave up on the idea of camping a while ago. Too cold and rainy. We're more flexible with the car.

So we ended up at Camping Paloma, near Tarifa. The high season starts on Friday, so it's still quite quiet. We have a bungalow cul-de-sac to ourselves and the boys are making good use of the space. And the hammock is hanging opposite, where there are trees.
When a campsite employee is assembling new tables (from IKEA) in front of our neighbor's house, Mauro keeps looking over with longing and can't concentrate on his homework. He wants to help. Regula asks and Marco, that's his name, is happy to have help, especially since Mauro can support him well. After 10 tables, he comes back beaming and says it was a Spanish and English lesson in TG 😊
After that, the next project follows with the cardboard packaging, which the boys "beg" for and build a cardboard house from it in the afternoon.
In the evening, we walk to the beach with picnics in our backpacks. We have to climb a high sand dune and when we reach the top, we're amazed: Africa is so close! It's like looking across a lake... At least we've seen Morocco 😉 which is still not accessible to ferry tourists.

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BY CLAUDIO (with some parenthetical remarks from Regula)

Yesterday we drove to Tarifa (paradise for wind and kite surfers) and wanted to go to the lighthouse (the southernmost point of Europe), but the peninsula where it is located is not accessible to tourists :-(
We walked around the town a bit, had lunch in the Mercado, and at three o'clock we took a boat tour and beforehand they told us something about whales and dolphins (FIRMM is a foundation that researches the animals). On the boat, we were looking for whales and dolphins because there are many whales and dolphins in the Strait of Gibraltar. After an hour on the sea, we saw a whole group of pilot whales. There were about ten of them, swimming very close to the boat. Then the trip went on for about an hour, but we didn't see any more animals (and everyone except Mauro got sick :-().
Then we ate an ice cream and "chillaxed" before driving to a restaurant right by the sea (thanks for the tip Ivan!) where we had dinner (after the beautiful sunset). (at night, the lights of Tarifa and the coast of Morocco look like there is no gap in between...)

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There is no further south... so we'll slowly head back north :-)
Sando finds sleeping Nordic more practical anyway than sleeping Southern :-)