For a couple of middle aged travellers, do you have any gems to share for travel between Cordoba and Tangiers? We have six days open time and will have already been to Seville and Granada. The idea is to go leisurely by train or bus and enjoy people and places where it's la vida autentico. The attractors are locally produced food and wine, craft and unusual geography.
And, does anyone have info to offer about ferries to Tangiers? Tarifa or Algeceris ?

How about Jerez, El Puerto, Cadiz and the Doñana National Park?
To Morocco, there are fast ferries from Tarifa and both ships and fast ferries from Algeciras (note spelling). There are several operators, some with websites.
www.frs-maroc.com
www.trasmediterranea.es
www.balearia.com
www.comarit.es
Services from Algeciras go to a new port called Tanger Med which is about 35 km east of the city of Tanger.

Take a look at Antequera (pop. 40 000) some 50 miles south of Córdoba towards the coast. Known as the "heart of Andalucía" with its dolmens, Roman baths, a Moorish Castle, Gothic churches, Renaissance fountains and baroque bell towers. Antequera was the first of the Granada emirate towns to fall to the Christians in 1410.
http://www.andaluciacoastandcountry.com/antequera.html

I can strongly recommend the restaurant/bar terrace in the corner of the peaceful square in front of La Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor, the first partly Renaissance-style church in Spain. Up here it's totally peace and quiet. Next to the recently excavated Roman baths and looking up on the 13th century Moorish alcazaba/fortress. Great views over unique landscapes.

Food and wine in Antequera: http://www.andaluciacoastandcountry.com/tapaspain.html

Just outside Antequera you find the spectacular El Torcal Park Nature Reserve:
http://www.andalucia.com/antequera/torcal/home.htm

And the mythical Peña de los enamorados (Lovers rock): http://www.malaga-weather.com/article.120.html

I like both of those ideas, Ronda and the surrounding area is nice too. Tangier will be like a different planet.

If Tangiers is as far as you plan to venture into Morocco, I'd skip it. It bears no relation to the rest of that wonderful country - like visiting Tijuana to say you've been to Mexico. Save Morocco for when you have time to go inland and savour it.

I agree with StCirq. With only 6 days unless you have time to venture outside of Tangiers I'd skip Morocco for another time. There's plenty to do in Andalucia in 6 days. In addition to the places mentioned there's Priego de Cordoba and the surrounding area which is famous for olive oil production. Ubeda & Baeza with it's Renaissance architecture and also olive oil. Malaga is larger and a great place to spend a few days. Osuna, Ecija, Carmona, Sanlucar, Vejer de la Frontera, Arcos, Ronda, etc.....

Thanks everyone for your kind responses.
But oh, how you jump to interpretations from my short request. If I didn't mention that I was going on to travel through Morocco at my leisure you presume that I'm going for the day!
You correct my spelling instead of looking for the essence.
Bye bye, pedants, I'm off for an authentic adventure.

It is important to get the correct spelling of place names. If you spell the name wrongly, you won't find the information you want. "Algeceris" has a few hundred entries on Google, all sites with misspellings, while "Algeciras" brings seven million entries, which include all the information you might need.

But oh how you jump to interpretations without reading the responses from posters. Both StCirq and CathyM gave advice based on your going no further than Tangier and both did say "if" you were only going there.

Nice to have such level headed posters looking for our help!

You said you had 6 days - you didn't say you had further plans for Morocco. If you don't want posters to assume things, then you should have fleshed out your question and given us the whole story. We're not mind-readers.

And I didn't "correct" your spelling. I simply failed to replicate your spelling mistake, and spelled Tangiers correctly myself. I do believe if you're going to visit a place you need to know how to spell it, especially, as mentioned, if you want to research it and find its "essence."