We are planning to take a day tour to Morocco one of these days but have been having some trouble with finding a guide from our books. So, we decided to do Gibraltar for the day.
I started with a swim in the pool as I have to maintain some sort of fitness to keep up with all the helados! ;D. We headed out in early afternoon for the hour drive in the other direction of the coast than the day before.
We arrived first in a city called La Linea which is a border town as Gibraltar is a British colony and not actually part of Spain. We drove across the border rather than parking on the Spain side and walking over as most books recommend. Getting across was fairly quick and easy.
Once in the town we parked and headed to take the cable car to the top of the rock. However the day was quite windy and the cable car was stopped so we lucked out with a tour instead.
The tour took us up the rock with a stop at a viewpoint called the Gate of Hercules, which gave us a view of the strait, Spain, and Morocco. It was a beautiful day and the wind served to keep things cool. We continued on to the caves where the British military dug through to house 1700 men to protect the sea and colony or something to that effect. I’m still not much of a history lover…. The tour continued as we climbed up towards the tip of the rock with a stop for photos and monkey viewing.
Some people wanted monkeys to jump on them but I declined. I did have one take food from my hand which was close enough for me! We headed back down the rock to end our tour.
Since we were in the UK, the thing to do for lunch was to eat fish ‘n’ chips. The portion was huge but the food was delish!
We also stopped to book a trip to Morocco the next day through a recommended travel agent from our tour guide – Paul. More shopping was done before heading back to grab some dinner and resting for an early start the next day.
– T
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