Costa del Sol Princess
Travel Blogs from Estepona
Dog day
Today's main task, was to walk the dogs and check the water tank. This hold 250 cubic metres and sits on top of the hill behind the house. Our mission was to evaluate the feasibility of getting power to it to run a radio transmitter to link to and fire-up the pump at the bottom of the hill. The subtleties of the system and the power-plays between the neighbours served by it are probably a little too parochial to go into any further. Needless to say, it was ...
Rock of Gibraltar
... a day and they close the street when a plane either lands or takes off.
We then went up to the upper Rock area and went into St. Michael’s Cave, filled with stalactites and stalagmites. This vast area, inhabited since the Stone Age, contains Cathedral Cave which has been long believed to be bottomless. In this cave, there is a full auditorium with seating for hundreds of people. It was extremely crowded ...
Gibraltar
... stopped. The kids never laughed so ********e went on top of the car, another tried to get into my back pack. On up we went. Very near the top was a cave entrance. We walked through the tunnels. Every 25 feet or so was a hole through the wall with a canon. The history was fascinating.
We drove back to our hotel in Rota, dropped the bags and went out for a gelato. Then it was lights out.
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YOU ROCK ROCK!
Goodbye Seville We climbed aboard a coach bus at 5:30 PM sharp at the Plaza San Sebastian in Seville and set our sights on the horizon - to La Linea and Gibraltar. Andrew really wanted to visit Gibraltar because, being a James Bond enthusiast, he knew the movie The Living Daylights, starring Timothy Dalton, had been filmed upon the rock, and he wished to walk the very streets where an opening high-speed chase scene had taken place in the movie. To La ...
At Sea Between Valencia and Casablanca
... 50 different countries. The Captain is Croatian from a long-time sea faring family; the general manager is Italian with a background in food and beverage, hospitality, etc.
We’ve learned the Oceania as a company rose from the ashes of the bankrupt Renaissance Cruise line, the one that I took when I went with my mother through the Greek Islands. That ship was very small…As I recall about 100 passengers – which was perfect for ...