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Thread #94594   Message #1838035
Posted By: Barry Finn
19-Sep-06 - 03:24 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Kilimanjaro Road
Subject: RE: Origins:
& for some of us who haven't been there. Opps, I forgot, I've been to Tanger once. Saw an arm with 20 watche on it, covered by a sleeve, saw a charmer getting paid off by a snake & bought a camel skin for my head. Because I went there by water I wasn't even close to Kimwezs & far more than 25 miles from the Kilimanjaro Road.

I forget when exactly but it was sometime during the early 70's, whn I was there, that because Brittish & Spainish relations were it the toliet the British made some foolish ruling about Spainish workers working on Gibraltar. So the Spainish declared that Gibraltar could not be accessed from Spain. So for a time, a very short time, one would have to take a ferry from Gibralter to Tanger, then board a ferry back across the Strait in order to get to the rock instead of the normal & simple few minute drive. The Brittish quickly did a turnaround & all things were as they should be. Peaceful.

Barry


Barry