We asked how to get on the interstate from the hotel, seeing as we found it completely by chance the other night, and we got pretty good directions. As I was walking out the door he called out “You have your passports, right?!”, and of course, I didn’t. I hade made mental note after mental note, but remembering my passport seems to be the hardest thing for me so far on this trip.
We found the interstate without any problems and continued to Gibraltar. We went through the classy town of Marbella, but weren’t close enough to the water to see any of the really swank yachts. When were about 30km from Gibraltar you could just barely see the rock looming in the distance. We figured how to drive through customs and were then promptly discouraged from trying to find a place to park in the city and that we were better parking in Spain. Back into Spain we went. We then set off for Gib on foot with our passports in hand. Basically all we had to do was show them that we had a passport and they were ok with that. No drams.
We walked to the city center and found the tourism office. We decided against a taxi tour as that would have been about 16 pound each, or $60 in total. We opted for taking the cable car up to the top and possibly stopping off at the Apes den. We walked through the center of the city and peeked in and out of all the English shops; Bhs, Marks&Spenser, Topshop and many more. Too bad that the prices for everything were in pounds, that just makes it more expensive for us Americans!
The cable car station was a bit farther than we had anticipated, but we managed to find it without too much trouble. We took the cable car up to the top of the rock and as soon as we got off we were greeted by the lovely tailless apes that inhabit the rock. We snapped a few cute ape photos then went to the viewing platforms to see the strait, Africa and the Mediterranean. The view was quite impressive and it was a fairly clear day as far as the top of the rock goes.
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