Saturday August 27 2011
A postscript to the story. Sharron, Ali and I all had an additional spare day in Gibraltar which we naturally used to explore the Rock itself. We ambled down through the town to the cable car station and took a ride up to the top.
It was a lovely hot day again and we enjoyed spectacular views out over the Bay, picking out the various places we had sailed to in the previous week, including Ceuta.
It was an interesting place to visit, listening to an evidently one-sided account of the Rock’s history via a very Anglo-Saxon multimedia presentation (including the James Bond theme from the start, it’s that British you know!) but we also visited some of the tunnels in the Rock, used for many a conflict down the years, most notably in the two World Wars.
And of course, one of the major attractions of the Rock are the Barbary Apes.
There were so many of them and we enjoyed watching them, kings of their own habitat. We walked down the Rock back into town and were all pretty shattered, but happy with the day’s sightseeing on the Rock.
Back on the yacht for one final night and meal out in the harbor and looking forward to the next stage of this sail training adventure J
No comments:
Post a Comment