Tacked on to our first quick trip to Spain from Portugal. Just a few years after Spain re-opened surface access to the peninsula. Stayed in San Roque the evening before where the B&B caretaker, an elderly lady assured us the car was safe parked on the street...and had a shotgun to back up the assurance. Next day, for morning coffee joined locals for their day-starting brandy. (people here pronounced the soft "ch" ..like they do in Panama.. reinforcing my... mini-theory that mother-language countries have regions which speak just like certain places overseas: Canaries/Venezuela, Western Ireland/St. Paul, Piemonte/Santa Fe; Lima/Castilla; Northern England/Maryland.)
Gibraltar fascinating for the truly impregnable fortress it has proven itself for centuries...a guarantor of free passage of shipping from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean...except for German vessels in the past century on a couple of occasions.
Link to Photo Album:
Gibraltar - El Peñon
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