Tar-ific, if you like it breezy; Tarifa, at the tip of southern Spain, has emerged from obscurity to become the next great place to go. Geoffrey Wansell tests the waters.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: February 15, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: GEOFFREY WANSELL

THE wind is the first thing that strikes you about Tarifa, a tiny city a few miles west of Gibraltar. It never seems to stop blowing. Day or night, rain or shine, the wind howls across the city like a banshee.

The reason is simple. Tarifa is the point at which the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic, the southernmost point of the Iberian peninsula - less than ten miles across the straits from the coast of Africa. From the crumbling ramparts of the city's tenth-century walls, you feel as if you can lean out and touch the Rif Mountains of Morocco.

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