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          OUR LAST ADVENTURE ABROAD This is it. The sun sets over the Sahara and our last overseas adventure.  It started with an ad in the paper six months earlier offering an eighteen day visit to Spain, Morocco and Portugal It offered opportunities to visit Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Tangier, Marrakesh, Casablanca, Lisbon and a dozen more places which sounded just as exotic. We were hooked. When we told the kids we got mixed responses from, "Are you sure you're up for this. It could be quite strenuous at your age" to "You are kidding. You can't possibly manage a trip like that on your own".  That did it. We put down a deposit and signed up for the duration. Our plan was to fly to London in two legs, stopping overnight in Bangkok. That meant one flight of eight and a half hours and the second leg of ten and a half hours Bangkok to London. So we flew into Heathrow feeling relatively rested and checked into a hotel near St Pancras/Kings Cr...