Gibraltar

Our next stop was a day trip to Gibraltar. We boarded a bus, drove to the border between Spain and Gibraltar. Long history lesson here about who has "owned" Gibraltar. But, it was interesting to step across a line and be in an English speaking country. And in following the road, you must walk directly across the major runway of the airport!

 

 

We took a van tour of the island. Our driver was a native "born in Gibraltar". Reminded me of the conversations with BOI folks from Galveston. Lots of pride. He was a wealth of information, but drove like a speedster around lots of curves, narrow roads, etc. We took the tour up the Rock...

 

Saw the REAL natives...

 

Saw this Pillars of Hercules monument (which caused us to research a quick history of Hercules).

 

We were able to go into the tunnels.

 

 

We finally began our long, but pretty walk down.  Lots of steps to navigate (boy did our knees hurt by the time we were through.)

 

 Homes/apts along the way had beautiful doors, windows, pots and planters with flowers.

Then we found this very cute pub, right along the alleyway. We were starving and ready for a drink. We had a delightful waitress and good food - fish and chips for me and cottage pie for Philip.

We thoroughly enjoyed our day. Wished now that we would have spent the night there. Things are expensive. Apparently lots of folks worldwide have "discovered" that this is a cool place and are buying up property and building extravagant homes and businesses. So, not sure how long us regular folks will be able to visit in the future.

So, we headed back to our hotel in Algeciras and another late night meal in Spain..