Gibraltar Museum

... during the war got so rough the entire civilian population was evacuated and didnīt return until 1951 I believe it was.  Gibraltar is definitely an interesting slice of the UK down here. Even getting to Gibraltar is a three hour bus ...

Since I missed a couple of days, I've booked some ship tours at upcoming ports. Today was Gibraltar, and I chose the tour for history nerds, "Gibraltar Under Siege." Our guide was amazing, a British ex-pat who is passionate about Gibraltar history. ...

... rock, taking photos and laughing at the antics of monkeys.  We also visited WW II tunnels and a sort of outside museum about the history of Gibraltar's relationship with Spain.  Some women stopped and gave us a ride.  They spoke of life in ...

... summit, & what a beautiful day for it! I couldn't believe the sunshine & gorgeous temperatures we had whilst in Gibraltar - considering the constant rain we had previously! Typically I had a woolly jumper on being prepared to be cold, so ended ...

... snacks and breakfast was hostel cornflakes. The rest of the day we pretty much wandered around the town and went to the Gibraltar Museum. It's really surprising to me, but just about everyone walking around on the street speaks Spanish. We even got ...

... sort of banana pie/caramel thing for dessert.  All that sugar helped me through the afternoon’s events. A tour of the Gibraltar museum gave us a strong since of the history of the location.  I think it was the Phoenicians who claimed the ...

No waves today, so we went in the big surfcamp van on a daytrip to Gibraltar.Jaime, one of our surf instructors, was driver and tourguide. Also along were Alex and Francisca, from Germany, and Petra from Austria, along with Javi, another ...

... with them some more. Today we are at sea again, on our way to Casablanca.  In a few hours we will go through the Straits of Gibraltar.  Hope we can see it a bit…it will take about 2 hours and it might be a little dark since I think we get ...

... were ponds and streams all over. The gardens overlooked Granada and were filled with exotic plants. We spent another day visiting Gibraltar. We actually weren't interested in seeing it but my dad mentioned they had crazy apes there so we decided to ...

... , inspect, tattoo, immunize, and name the monkeys; Sue informed us that there were exactly 241 monkeys living on Gibraltar, likely originally brought over by British invaders.  These are called the Barbary Apes, although they are technically ...