BEST WESTERN Golf & Beach Vista Real
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Dolphins, Apes and M&S
... glass from windows in evidence. We left the van and set off to the border on foot. Although it is now low season there seemed to be a huge amount of traffic going over the border - we were later told it was for cheap booze, fags and electrical goods - some things don't change! A cursory passport check and we were in Gibraltar. Entering the small British colony involves crossing the airport runway which is a slightly unsettling experience. We ...
The Rock
... will mark the 300th year of ownership. It will also essentially mark the 300th year the Spanish have tried to take it back! Needless to say the Spanish non-confrontational protest was nothing new. My dad said that in addition to generating lots of money in tourism, Gibraltar is also militarily a very strategic strip of land and is the entrance/exit to the mediterranean sea, and that is why Britain wont give it up. I personally think it's the view they want ...
Monkey see, monkey do
... overgestoken hadden (!) kwamen we aan bij Mainstreet, met alle winkeltjes en terrasjes. De obers doen hun best om je met een Queens English accent te verwelkomen, en gaan daarna toch over op Spanglisch. Bij de kabelbaan hebben we twee tickets enkele reis gekocht en zijn in 6 minuten de berg op gehesen. Bij 'top of the rock' troffen we direct al wat brutale apen aan. Die zitten daar op hun gemak de toeristen te bekijken die aankomen. Ik dacht dat wij ...
Gilbrator
... of Gibraltar.
It is so unique to walk to a border crossing, with all its administrative and bureaucratic requirements and then you are suddenly stopped by a lowered wooden barrier across the sidewalk. Why you ask? Well the sidewalk and roadway into Gibraltar cross an active international airport runway! We waited as a large Monarch Airways aircraft landed in Gibraltar. After completing its taxi to the airport the barrier is lifted and ...
American? Really?
When I told this guy I was from the United States, he seemed puzzled:
He told me he´s been selling nuts in the same intersection for five years now, and never met an American before.
Uncharted ...