Blogs from Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Europe

We have neglected the blog for a few stop overs, this has been mainly because there has been no internet available !! We left Lagos on Thursday 8th August and spent a very pleasant day sailing to Albufeira. The marina is surrounded by holiday apartments and is a little way from the town. It must be said that If I was paying for a holiday to Albufeira I think I would be disappointed. We left there on Saturday 10th August for a short days sail across the bay to Vilamoura, which is a far more civilised place to be. We left Vilamoura late afternoon on Monday intending to have an overnight sail to Gibraltar. We made better headway than I had expected and it soon became clear that if we continued we would arrive at Gibraltar ... read more

We started out early this day as we had a 3 hour drive to Gibraltar ahead of us. Thanks to the GPS, a series of roundabouts, and a missed exit that took us about an hour out of the way, we ended up in a little country town named Las Cazebas deSan Juan that is built up on a mountain, with the church situated at the very top. Back on the autovia and headed in the right direction this time, we drove through vineyards, farmlands, cattle ranches, wind turbine farms, and peaks and valleys of the mountains. We even passed a castle, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. We spent the majority of the drive oohing and aahing at the marvelous Spanish countryside. Each time we went through a tunnel, we would come out and be ... read more

April 14, 2012- Last night we tried to book ourselves into a tour offered by our hotel to Gibraltar, but it was booked. So I did some Internet research to try to find another tour and I didn't have much luck. SO... I decided I would rent a car to drive us to Gibraltar. This morning we had a leisurely breakfast before Emily's tour of Gibraltar pulled out of the station. We hopped onto the one highway and one hour later, we got off the highway. The Spanish seem to pretend that Gibraltar doesn't even exist, since they lost it to the English in 1704. The highway signs don't even mention Gibraltar, rather the little town on the Border called La Linea de Conception. So we meandered our way thru the town and got ourselves into line ... read more

Cadiz a Gibraltar Started off the day nice and early in Cadiz and managed to get a bus directly to a place called la Linea which is right on the border of Spain and Gibraltar, due to ongoing problems between the spanish and the british governments there is no bus service across the border. There was only a very short walk to and across the border and the weather was fantastic so no worries. Despite being told there was nowhere to leave my big bag at the bus station, found some lockers which let you leave your big rucksack for 3 euros a day. result. Walked easily across the border with my passport cover only being glnaced at and walked toward the town centres. The ariport in gibraltar which runs across the access to the pennisular ... read more

ZNow Wielka i great Brytania i tym razem jestesmy tu razem. Ale jaja normalnie Anglicy znowu dali popis. Zamorska kolonia kwitnie i zadziwia na kazdym kroku.Obeszlismy polwysep dookola i wielka radosc= udalo nam sie dotrzec do Punta Europa (Wrota Europy) i na horyzoncie blekitnej zatoki wyrazny zarys Afryki. Gibraltar tetni zyciem;ale zaskoczeniem jest ze do godziny 19. Potem wszyscy pracownicy;sklepikarze barmani itp wracaja do domow w hiszpanskiej La Linea bo to bardzo blisko (10 min piechota) i tanio; trzeba tylko przejsc przez pas startowy gibraltarskiego lotniska ktory jest jednoczesnie granica miedzy miasteczkami i panstwami.Okolo poludnia tez zostalismy zmuszeni do darmowego podziwiania startu samolotu spod gibraltarskiej skaly wraz z tlumkiem oczekujacych na przejscie. Ne moge sie doczekac na spotkanie z malpkami; dlatego jeszcze cos stad pewno napisze. Spotlalismy tutaj dziwnie... read more