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THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR
... are in English; it is duty free so lots of people are buying cigarettes and alcohol. The cemetery is full of British sailors who died in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 in Gibraltar. We decided not to take the ride to the top of the rock but did indulge in some fish and chips at the Gibraltar Arms.
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Monkey food - ME
... out to get the photo, or the seagull that is rising into the clouds without flapping their wings. We were hoping to get a view of Africa but this wasn’t going to happen.
Our next stop was at the ape feeding station and the monkeys had finished their breakfast so they were quite amiable. One jumped on the head of a person and started to groom her hair – I am not sure whether the monkey found any fleas.
A ...
Where Have the Monkeys Gone?
... of the
monkeys.
We had some British pub food before heading back to La Linea. The guards at Gib’s border were more hard core than I remembered them being; they actually demanded to see the ID cards of the couple in front of us.
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At Sea between Valencia and Casablanca
... Village” that we thought would be more interesting than it turned out to be. Interesting concept: old military base converted into a series of shops, many of which do their producing on site. The problem was that most of the stuff they produce isn’t very interesting; much of it is the same from one shop to the next; and they are not very organized as a group. I asked one many in a ceramics shop and it happened he was a good one to ask: ...
The Rock of Gibraltar
... population lives in apartments (flats) on the south side of the rock. Much of the land on the south side has been reclaimed, both through the natural deposit of sediment via rough weather and currents and the intervention of man via dump trucks. As Sue noted, not many humans live on the Rock; up on the Rock lie the monkeys, and down by the shore lie the apes!
As we made our way back to the cable car to travel halfway down the rock and meet ...