Main Street Gibraltar

... British Empire by referendum requested by the United Nations in 1967. The town is a mixture of a military town and a tourist town. Its main street is mainly a walking street and is called Main Street. We had a leisurely walk back thru town and toward ...

... flights to and from Heathrow, Gatwick and even Manchester. The runway is over 2km long and crosses over one of the main roads leading to Gibraltar’s modern quarter.  I am unclear how this road is controlled, as I couldn’t see a barrier ...

... one side, Spain on the other and nothing but water in front and at the end of the runway. The runway also has the main street running through it so traffic is stopped when planes are landing or taking off. It's a strange situation at the airport ...

... . We walked quite a way before reaching the city walls in our journey to the cable car to the top. Lee and I found Main Street which was such a contrast to the Spain we had just left behind. The shops were all rather upscale and proper. There was ...

... go around it.  We ended up way further up the peninsula than the cable car, but we just walked back a ways and reached Main Street again.  We felt quite accomplished when looking back up at the massive rock that we'd just hiked down and I'd ...

... to walk across at your leisure or drive. It is the only way in unless you come by boat. Within 10 minutes walk, I reached Main Street. It looks absolutely like any small British town, could be Portsmouth, and it rained for a while to make it feel ...

... here too but long before Alastair and his memory wasn't as good and things had changed more for him. Once we got back to main street we stopped in a pub and had a drink, then went to another pub for lunch as the kitchen was closed in the first one. ...

... and Safeway. So I bought lunch at McDonalds and some English reading material at Safeway (i.e. gossip mags...LOL). I walked along Main Street to familiarize myself with the town and say several signs saying the businesses will be closed tomorrow due ...

... . We also visited the Keep, the one hundred-ton gun and rode the cable car to the top of the rock. Gibraltar’s narrow and winding Main Street is a pedestrian mall with a lot of small shops, restaurants and bars. We found a pub to eat fish-and-chips ...

... full. I asked him to recommend some where else. He said go down to the Continental Hotel. So I walked down to the main street and found the Hotel. The cheapest room they had was 80 Euros. I was caught in the Gibraltar trap. I am ...