Gibraltar

On Friday we traveled down from Seville to Gibraltar. We had very little time on the rock but we did see around and how it operates so close to Spain. It is a little British outpost right on the doorstep of Spain. British post boxes, phone boxes, British pounds - the lot.

 The rock is riddled with miles of tunnels that were used as refuges during the war. The rubble from the digging was used to build the airport and there was so much infrastructure inside that people could live well inside the rock. The photo shows a large concert hall that was built inside a huge cave.

The are 6 colonies of Barbary apes that live on the slopes. The belief is that if the apes ever left the rock it would be lost to Britain. Apparently the population has declined on occasions and then secretly boosted with apes from Africa.

From high on the rock it is easy to see how close it is to Spain and how much shipping uses the area.