Pillars of Hercules
With brute strength, Hercules forced his way through the mountains at the western edge of the Mediterranean, creating the Straits of Gibraltar. The Pillars of Hercules on each side bore the notice “ne plus…
Category Archives: Morocco
The Best thing about Gibraltar…
…is its strategic location. I’m not talking about military strategy but the wonderful range of destinations within a 2 hour drive or ferry trip from the place – Morroco and most of Andalucia, to begin…
Degrees of separation
I have talked about this before. Discovering that in Tromso the yard manager’s father had built and owned Norbu (the ship in which I first went to sea in 1966); learning that 3 friends of…