Gibraltar, Great Britain

 

Rock of Gibraltar                                                                                May 5, 2022



One of the oddities of boundary making finds Gibraltar, a British territory, surrounded by Spain on one side and water on the other directly across the Strait of Gibraltar which connects the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea from Ceuta a Spanish enclave surrounded by Morocco on one side and water on the other.  The communities are about 26 kilometers apart.  The skinniest portion of the strait is 13 km.   The histories are complex to say the least, and the boundaries are unlikely to be completely settled for a long time if ever. 

We have been to Gibraltar before.  There is not much to visit once you’ve been so we decided to walk through town on a nice sunny day.   We were docked with a huge cruise ship with about 3000 passengers.  We have 300.  We were wearing masks as we left our ship.  They were not.


We walked through the old gate and walked down Main Street and then up something called Line Wall Road which followed the old wall of the town.  Lots of shops on Main but they were not using Euro’s because of the British split with the European Union.  Being fresh out of British pounds(never having gotten any) and with our credit card suddenly being blocked and with the realization that everything we might buy has had to be imported likely raising the price we chose the course of not working too hard to find something to buy.  The place has a surprising amount of park space considering its narrow area.  We had a lovely walk and found an interesting sign on the wall road.  Not quite as nothing a day as yesterday, but it was relaxing and stress free as we look forward to Seville.

The square behind the entrance to the old city.




Not the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but supportive none-the-less.

Old fort wall (fort started 1773) with green space

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