It takes about a minute to walk from the tapas bar at the Ocean Club, where Kate and Gerry McCann were dining with friends, to the apartment from which their daughter vanished almost 100 days ago.
The pictures show the McCanns had to
walk about 120 metres to get to the
apartment where their children
slept.
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The
journey
was a
familiar
one for
the
McCanns
and the
other
seven
friends
sitting
around
the
dining
table.
From the
tapas
bar,
only the
very top
of the
balcony
of the
McCanns'
ground
floor
apartment
70
metres
away
across
the pool
is
visible.
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It meant one of the party would have to walk from the bar around the pool, and out through the security gate of the Ocean Club, a distance of some 60 metres.
Once out of the complex, they would have turned left on to Rua Dr Francisco Gentil Martins, a public road, and go a further 60 metres up the hill, through a three-foot high gate which cannot be locked, up a flight of steps and then in through rear patio doors, which were not apparently locked.
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The apartment is not inside the Mark Warner complex itself but sits on the corner of two roads, quiet at the time Madeleine vanished but now taken up with satellite television trucks.
The front door of the apartment is on the other side of the building from the tapas bar, on Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva. The rear patio doors through which the adults would enter to check on the sleeping children faces on to a walkway, again open to the public.
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With two entrances - neither of which can be seen from the restaurant where the McCanns were dining on 3 May - the apartment is impossible to monitor from the tapas bar.
It was night when Madeleine vanished and none of the party could have seen from their tables a stranger entering or leaving the apartment.
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