Article: DAY TRIP TO AFRICA; YOUR'E IN SOUTHERN SPAIN AND FANCY AN AWAY DAY WITH A TWIST YOUR'E ONLY A 35 MINUTE HOP FOM MOROCCO.

Byline: JON CLARKE

SO HERE you are: one of the 1.5 million British visitors to the Costa del Sol this year, revelling in the sea and sun, lounging over your calamari and Rioja.

But now table talk has turned to idle thoughts of exploration at some point or other, you really should be thinking of an outing.

Somehow a day trip to Mijas or half an hour paragliding seems, well, not entirely worth the effort.

What else is there?

Then you see it: the land mass shimmering away on the horizon.

No, not Gibraltar, but Morocco suddenly as accessible from southern Spain as it is hip, thanks to a new 35-minute hydrofoil service.

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