We woke up and drove to the Spanish/Gibraltar border. There was complete chaos because members of the European Union could just walk thru while everyone else had to get their passports stamped. There wasn’t any signage and people got really confused. Cars were also just waived thru. Electric scooters were also included in this group so you would have cars, buses, motorcycles and electric scooters all trying to cross at the same time with minimal order. And…they crossed over the runway at the airport when planes weren’t taking off! It was entertaining to watch to say the least!
We walked across the border and then caught the city bus to City Center.
We had a lovely breakfast at a great restaurant in the square. The restaurant had a great Tree of Life on its wall. As we were eating, we saw several policemen/women opening every single pothole and looking for bombs. Once cleared they would use security stickers to seal it. There were pot holes every 5 feet so it was quite an undertaking. It was just random and out of the ordinary and gave us something to watch. I wonder what public official was coming to visit.
We walked thru town and felt like we were in England. We even saw a Matalan.
Walking thru town we also came across the Trafalgar Square Cemetary. It had beautiful gardens and tons of butterflies!
We took the cable car to the top of Gibraltar to see the Skywalk and St Michaels Cave. Immediately when we got off, we were met by tons of monkeys. Some were aggressive, some were annoyed, some were performers and most were just hanging out looking for food.
The views from the top were amazing. It looked like one of the ships had sunk and they were trying to save it. We could see Africa in the distance as well! We had hoped to make it over to Morocco during this trip but ran out of time. It was too much to try to plan a last minute trip and see everything we wanted to see. Hopefully we will make it back some day.
We made our way to St Michaels Cave which is a huge cave that was once used for ammunition storage, a hospital and even thought to have connected Gibraltar to Africa at one time but that was never confirmed. Imagine what the first person who found the cave was thinking!
We took the cable car back down the rock, had a great dinner at the port and headed back to our hotel. Tomorrow is a 7 hour drive to València.
(View of the rock from the bus on our way back to the car. )
Eone M. Beck
My oldest son, Cameron, was at Gibraltar today! What a small world.