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Sunday in Estepona
... s really very rather picturesque. Having got back to the house and inspected the local water distribution system (which serves 27 houses and of which Uncle Steve is El Presidente). Much of this semi-rural Andalucian living is like the Wild West. If they exist at all, title deeds to land are notoriously vague, overlapping and, for the right fee, subject to reinterpretation. Who's granny sat ...
Gibraltar:Out of Spain and into planet of the apes
... airport runway (that happens to have a street running through it), which was pretty strange. The city center is only a 10-15 minute walk from the border. Once there, I changed my money from Euros to Gibraltar pounds (a fairly painful conversion rate) and headed into a cafe to get some coffee and wait for the rain to pass, which only took about 15 minutes.
It was upon entering the Main St. area of Gibraltar that I was greeted with the ...
Monkey see, monkey do - Gibraltar rocks!!
... from Africa by 9 miles at its shortest point. This, however, is not from Gibraltar. The shortest point across to Africa is from the Spanish peninsular south of Gibraltar called Tarifa. Gibraltar is approximately 14 miles from the African coast.
The population of Gibraltar is about 30,000 and is made up from a diverse number of ethnic groups.
My first act on crossing the road was to nearly get run over!!
Gibraltar is a British dependency. ...
CADIZ, & Monkeys and such!
... a change of pace, so I took two day trips and stayed in Sevilla the other two days, which was really nice because it already seems like I have so few weekends left here!
On Saturday a couple of girls (and Patrick) and I hopped on a train and went on a spur of the moment trip to Cádiz, a beach city southwest of Sevilla on the Atlantic coast AND the oldest ...
At Sea Between Valencia and Casablanca
... inside – and walked first to the Archeology Museum. We haven’t been having a lot of museum luck: the Museum in Crete has been closed for several years for renovation and it certainly looks as though it will be several more years before the Greek government has the money to finish it so we visited a room; in Tunis the museum was closed because it was Monday. In Valetta the museum was open only on the ground floor. Sigh. But what we saw ...