Year: 2012

By The Wandering Vegan

Tangier, Morocco

My first steps in Africa came via ferry from Gibraltar. The passport control line was ‘everyone go visit this guy sitting in the corner’, which seemed very official, and I was off the ferry into Tangier with a passport stamp. We’d booked a hostel in the Medina (old city), and the streets are largely unnamed…

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Gibraltar

From Portugal, we drove over to Gibraltar, which was a nice drive. The traffic to cross the border was a huge headache, because we not only had passport control, we also had to wait while they closed the main road in/out, because it crosses the airport runway, and a plane was taking off soon. Zzzzz……

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Tallinn, Estonia

In early July 2012, I flew with a friend to Tallinn, Estonia, and we stayed with some local people who were my friend’s friend’s friends somehow. We had some really interesting conversations about the fact they work 65-70 hours a week to make ends meet with 7 people living in their small apartment, the GDP…

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