Au revoir Nice, Hola España (and مرحبا المغرب)

April 22, 2012

We’re just about finished our 3-month stay here in beautiful Nice, France.


It’s been excellent. We’re sad to go, but the adventure must continue! :)

In a week, we’ll be flying to Madrid, Spain. After touring there a few days, we’ll be volunteering and teaching English for a week at the Pueblo Inglés program in the mountain village of La Alberca.

Then we bus back to Madrid to take a train to the southern city of Seville for 3 days. After hopping another train and spending 2 days in Cordova, we go even further south to Tarifa, Spain to spend some time on the beach watching the kite surfers.

That will be followed by a 1-hour high-speed ferry trip across the Straight of Gibaltar to the African continent, landing in Tangier, Morocco.

After a few days in Tangier, we take a train to Fez, where our camel trekking safari in the Sahara desert begins. We’ll be spending a night under the desert stars before continuing to the ancient city of Marrakesh.

From Marrakesh, we head back north to Casablanca, where we catch a flight to Bordeaux, France.

Bordeaux will be our home base for the summer – June to August.

Here’s what the trip looks like on a map:

We’re both very excited about the trip. Of course, you’ll be able to follow along as we post pictures to Facebook and Google+.