Day #6 was the one I’d been looking forward to the most – driving down the coast to Gibraltar!  The main reason being that first you have need your passport as you are technically leaving Spain as Gibraltar is still owned by the UK… then you get to drive over the main airport runway to get into central Gibraltar!

After navigating the manic streets to find the parking building we found the town square and sat down to have some food – british food!  Money is a bit of a funny thing to deal with in Gibraltar as everything is priced in either Euros or Pounds… so you can choose to pay in either, but you have to watch the change you get because Gibraltar also has it’s own currency which you can’t use anywhere else! I got caught out by this and ended up with a bit of Gibraltan currency in change when I got back to UK but luckily enough it still works in parking meters so I’ve managed to use it up.  Very weird tho.

We had a walk through the town and marvelled at the cheap booze… John got me a bottle of Jack Daniels for my birthday and he got some vodka for his Mrs back in NZ – super cheap!

While walking we came across this van tour that takes you up The Rock of Gibraltar and shows you all the sights while giving you a commentary also – so we said hell yeah!!  You can get a cable car up the Rock but then it’s miles of walking from one side to the other and it was super dooper hot so this was a much better idea!

We stopped a couple of times on the tour to admire the views, go into the caves and also see the monkeys!  I had a close encounter with one of the monkeys… it jumped on top of my head! Luckily I had my hat on though!

After the tour we headed further along the main street to a pub to have some dinner and drinks, then meandered back to the car to head back to the apartment. Exhausting day but totally worth it!

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