GIBRALTAR

GIBRALTAR 

Saturday in Gibraltar  is organized chaos.

Since I had was here a couple of months ago I figured I would just take the cable car up to the top and find the monkeys.

Well it turned out instead of paying €18 for the cable car I got a two hour tour in a cab with six other people that was much better.

And our first stop was the pillars of Hercules where we could see Africa – Tangier – just 18 km away.

We continued on to St. Michael's cave; I couldn't do this the last time because I had the boot on my foot. Most impressive! They had music playing so you could hear the acoustical value of the cave and colored lights flashing and changing to the music.

After that we headed up to the top of the rock to see the monkeys. As you're heading up there they were jumping on the cab and one hopped in searching for food. Of course, one of the young girls started screaming, The monkey got excited and ran to the back of the cab, hiding in the boot. When he realize there is no food he left us. Finally got to the top and as we were walking up some steps one of the monkeys jumped on the same girl who started screaming, again, and the monkey tried to bite her. It gave everyone else In the group a great laugh.

Headed back into town and of course were dropped off by the shopping street. My whole goal was to get to Roy's for some authentic English fish and chips.

I don't know if it was because it was Saturday or something special was going on but the streets were loaded with people… Muslim women dressed in their traditional car, choose either going or coming from Temple, a wedding going on and women with their fascinators dressed to the nines. 

And then came a group of soldiers in there beautiful uniforms marching down the street playing the drums! As this within a two block area. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!

Well I finally made it to Roy's after a stop at Pandora, had my fish and chips and headed back to the ship for the Mediterranean buffet. It's a damn shame how much they make you eat on a cruise ships.

I hate to repeat myself but it's so neat when you know what you want to do and where you want to go if you've been to a city in the past.