Well if you haven’t been to Gibraltar before and it is on your cruise itinerary I would suggest spending the day here and not venturing further afield. Why? Well a day would be enough to see Gibraltar as it is far smaller than I ever imagined and it is so quirky it really is worth seeing!
So on our drive in to Gibraltar we were hit with huge queues to get onto ‘the rock’, as we had been driving for a while already we decided to go to beach right next to it and wait for the queues to die down. Whilst lying on the beach we noticed a plane coming in right over head and answered our question as to why there was such a long queue to get in, well the run way goes over the main road!!!
We made our way over and wandered round the very narrow streets, and you really could be back in mainland England as the higher street is a carbon copy of the ones you will see in any town. The only difference is the beautiful weather that reminds you that you are not back at home! We had a spot of lunch in one of the pubs where they claimed Christopher Columbus stopped on his way to the Americas for a steak!?!?!?!?
I would highly recommend taking a trip up the cable car, the views across to Spain and Africa are fantastic and of course there are also the monkeys to be seen. It has been said that in the war monkeys were imported to Gibraltar: apparently as long as there were monkeys in Gibraltar it would remain under British sovereignty!
Next stop Cadiz………
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