Café Hafa
A café on a cliff above the strait of Gibraltar, built in 1921 and unchanged since. Terraced into the hillside in twelve levels, each with a low table and rush mats on the floor. Mint tea arrives in glasses. The view is Spain. Paul Bowles came here every day for fifty years. The Rolling Stones came once and wrote something or didn't. The view is the same either way.
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