The Most Southern Point

Continental Europe's most southerly point is the tiny town of Tarifa. Pointed like a dagger's tip at Morocco, this small village still retains it's spanish heritage despite being so close to Africa. It probably helps that it's pretty damn touristy.

But I gather it's wind that makes Tarifa run. If the streets lined with kite and windsurfing clubs, schools, and outfitters are any indication, wind is pretty big here. Course a better indication would be the gale force that's currently whipping itself through the streets! It's a bit like standing on the front of a ferry crossing to Victoria. Except you're on land... and there's bits of crap like cigarette packets and torn up palm leaves making threatening advances towards your head... And if you turn sideways you don't get gently pushed into the siderail, you get pushed into oncoming traffic... But at least it's warm! Though it does make everyone look like they're walking drunk.