Dateline: Gibraltar, United Kingdom April 12, 2016 This morning at 5am we passed through the Pillars of Hercules. There is only about 7 miles between Africa and Europe as we head from the Atlantic, into the Mediterranean and our dock at the Rock of Gibraltar. Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. It shares its northern border with the Province of Cadiz in Andalusia, Spain and Morocco can be seen just across the Straits of Gibraltar. Someone said this is the only place in the world where one can see Africa (Morocco), Spain and England all at the same time. Some of you blog readers may remember the last time we were through here we were in total fog, literally. We made our way up to the “top of
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