Our friends, Wendy & Mick, had already visited Gibraltar about a fortnight ago and they had told us where to park overnight for free. On our arrival at Gibraltar I had misread their instructions and crossed the border into Gibraltar. We had to show our passports at the border and then drive through nothing to declare after that you have to drive across the runway to enter into the city, that was a bit weird. Anyway after reading the instructions again I realised that we should not have gone into Gibraltar so we had to go back across the runway and you then have to queue to get back through the border to Spain, that took about 20 minutes, apparently in the height of summer it can take a couple of hours to get through the border back to Spain. Just now in rush hour it takes about 45 minutes to an hour. Once back in Spain we found the parking place and there were already about 40 other motothomes parked there, it’s a bit like a traveller’s site but cleaner.

We got the bikes out and cycled back into Gibraltar, still showing your passport and cycling through nothing to declare and across the runaway. Now here’s another Griswald moment, the cable car up to the top of the rock is closed for two weeks for maintenance.  So what else is there to do in Gibraltar I hear you say, NOTHING. The only way up the rock was by foot or bike. That wasn’t an option for me. We did find that some taxi’s do tours of the rock so we decided to do that the next day.

Tuesday we cycled to Morrisons and got a few essentials but we will have to go in with Blossom to stock up.  There are quite a few shops in Main Street that are the same as back home but if you are looking to buy electrical or photographic equipment then they are not that much cheaper although they are supposed to be duty free. The petrol is however only £1.03 a litre. We took our taxi tour, which was worth the money. One bit I didn’t like was the monkeys, we got out of the taxi and a monkey jumped on my head, they are quite heavy and they can bite so I was a bit scared. On the tour we also saw the Pillars of Hercules, St Michaels Cave, which is now an auditorium and the siege tunnels, there are 34 miles of tunnels inside the rock. We then went to the Gibraltar Museum.

Wednesday we had a cycle around and had a look in the shops.

Today we have come to Morrisons, with Blossom, and are taking advantage of the free wifi in the café there to post this blog.  We will be heading for Tarifa tomorrow.

Looks like the roads have been imported from the UK as they are full of pothole and badly repaired!!!!!!!

TTFN