Albayalde Estepona

... as we were passing through - a delay of a few minutes. We selected seats in the central waiting area, where we could watch the Big Board for when our flight was called. Pas slept while Mum and I chatted. The flight to Malaga was fine: on-time, half-empty (we each had three seats to ourselves). I slept, waking with the Captain's announcement then minutes before landing. Passed easily through Immigration - no customs to speak of, which meant no Customs officials ...

Today is Wednesday and we decided to walk to Spain. A town called la linea de la concepcion. I think it is about 3 miles away. the interesting part of this walk is that you have to cross the airport runway. The airport only has one runway. A road runs through it and when a plane is coming the light turns red and everyone stops until the plane lands. It was kind of fun to walk across the ...

After a windy few days in Isla Plana, we headed to Torre del Mar to spend Paul's birthday. We were hoping for a little good weather & sunshine, but it seemed like we were out of luck as we had torrential non-stop rain for the few days we were there - boo! One of the good points though was that it was still quite busy at this resort, with both of the campsites in the region pretty full, as we didn't want to be the only people in the village when we went out for Paul's ...

... sometimes you try to move your feet but you don't go anywhere. Sometimes it feels like I am floating but other times it feel like there is so much weight holding me down. I almost fell out of the shower 5 times. At breakfast Kendel's eggs were a slippin but I came to the rescue and saved them. I'm going to go walk around and see how everyone is doing. Skol! Jess

... around town. A random guy tried to tell us the story of how toy spiders are great Valentine's gifts because you want to trap your girl in your web and hang onto her. However, you must beware because the black widow will eat the male, so you have to tread carefully...... Yeah, we bid him and his injured hand (construction work, he says, but we believe it could be physical combat wounds) goodbye and headed to a pub for some traditional British grub. Beers and bangers and mash, of co

... inplantation under Churchills ledning for at hans soldater pa halvon skulle fa nojet att jaga dessa djur. Emellertid, till apornas och nutida turisters stora gladje, blev apskjutning aldrig nagon succe. Min egna tolking är att de sma djuren helt enkelt är alldeles for sota. Uppe pa berget borjade vi narma oss aporna och Saeed (Sajjan) blev attackerad av tva apor som uppklättrade pa hans huvud och fightades om hans uppmarksamhet. Det hela resulterade I en fin b

... Our next stjop was St. Michael´s Cave, which was a cool limestone cave which was originally designed to be an emergency hospital during WWII but was never used as such. The entire thing is huge and even has a mini lake in it. One really neat part was that now part of it´s used as an auditorium for concerts because clearly the acoustics are unparalleled. The next stop was the Ape´s Den and it was so much fun. Gibraltar is home to a unique species of tailess ...

... informatie op een rijtje te zetten en ons zo goed mogelijk voor te bereiden. De zenuwen beginnen ook toe te slaan; dit gaat toch wel een lastige tocht worden! Vooral de getijdentabel zorgt voor enige onduidelijkheid. Time zone -1 hour staat erboven. Verder staat erbij dat je voor een gedeelte van de tabel de zomertijd moet toepassen. Maar Gibraltar hanteert toch Nederlandse zomertijd (UTC +2)? Uiteindelijk komen we eruit, hoewel ik achteraf niet meer weet hoe we ...

... shoes, relaxing... or whatever.. especially in a place where I only planned on relaxing (there isn't much to see and do in a territory that is only 2km long and 1 km wide). So I quickly repacked my daypack with what I needed for the day and headed out to explore Gibraltar. Except it was Sunday and everything was closed. Except McDonalds and Safeway. So I bought lunch at McDonalds and some English reading material at Safeway (i.e. gossip mags...LOL). I walked along Main ...

... and how glad we were to see them. After waiting out the weather in La Linea (the Spanish side of the breakwater at Gibraltar), we picked a day to take a hike to see the Gibraltar monkeys. They call them Barbary Apes, but they are actually monkeys and they have the run of the Rock of Gibraltar. As we walked up the narrow road (no taxi tours for us!), we saw some of the monkeys on the side of the road. They are not shy at all, and will climb on your shoulder if ...