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April Adventures

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April 12th 2005
Well, the first of April has come and gone and now it´s almost half over, along with our semester as we have just survived midterms! Not much has happened since spring break ended, except Laura´s parents visited from the states, I went to a tea house for a belly dancing show, and we visited Gibraltar last weekend. Okay, the tea house was kind of a surprise. Natalie asked me to go have tea with ... read more

Europe » Gibraltar

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Strategically important, Gibraltar was ceded to Great Britain by Spain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht; the British garrison was formally declared a colony in 1830. In referendums held in 1967 and 2002, Gibraltarians ignored Spanish pressure and voted ... ... read more