Cave of Hercules

So somewhere along the way I picked up a cold I have been miserable the last day and a half but I am starting to come out of it but mixed with the heat, ugh! Yesterday we hung out close to home in the morning and then in the afternoon we went to see Soufaine's parent's new house that they are building. It is very beautiful. Houses in Morocco are done much differently than in America; the garage is on the bottom and the living area is on top of the garage. Like america they do not use their garage for a car :) but usually put in some kind of investment like a sandwich shop, a cyber cafe, or a small grocery store.
In the evening we piled some 8 people in the car (would remind you of a mary poppins carpet bag) and took a nice drive around the coast and through the heavily forrested hills above Tangier. We went to the Cave of Hercules, right across from gibrator. It is said to be the place where Herculese parted the continents of africa and europe, and the gates through which you must pass to find Atlantis. the caves were beautiful, but had been turned into one huge gift shop. you had to pay an entrance fee in order to buy souviners!
Because of the heat, there are cafes everywhere! the joke about Tangier is that it is a city made up of cafes, between one cafe and another cafe...is a CAFE!!! this one at the caves of Herculese there was a cafe right on the rocks that fallinto the ocean. The spray kept you cool and the waitor brought us grilled sardines right from the fishermen's nets who were casting off the rocks we sat on.
Friday is the holy day, and they serve a big lunch of couscous. it was a HUGE dish and served beautifully, I was too sick to eat!!! but every one enjoyed it..being the national dish of morocco i am sure it was tasty. after returning home from the cave and having stopped at many view points to look at spain across the straight we relaxed around the living room table and dinner was served at 12 pm!!!! family came down from upstairs and it was a boisterous affair!