Gibraltar is a British colony. It sits on the southern tip of Europe on a peninsula from Spain. Spain owed it for 300 years, and still wants it back from the Brits. The locals voted last time 99 to 1 to stay British, but Spain does not give up.
We hired a local excursion and visited St. Michael’s cave, the top of the rock, and some military tunnels. There are over 30 miles of tunnels in “The Rock.” The drive up to the top was something. Near the top the width of the mountain was no more than 2x the size of the road. We could look over both sides at one point at the same time. It was very high up and very steep.
The Moors had brought monkeys to The Rock and the monkeys still live there. We got lots of pictures with them, so I’ll post one.
There was a major event this day…something like the 70th anniversary of the military. So there was a parade.
We left port early, at 1:00pm because we have to make it to Lisbon by tomorrow. We had a sail away party at 1:00pm, with one hour of free champaign.
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