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Inconsiderate landings in the realm of the closed Sunday

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  We are crossing into Gibraltar and so that means crossing the runway of the airport. This is a highly rated experience - 150 reviews and 4.8 stars. The overwhelming experience is - this is odd, what fun. Edward gave a star - though I hope I detect some self parody. ‘WAs late to my meeting as a plane HAD TO LAND, how inconsiderate of them. HOLIDAY FROM HELL’. He has 96 contributions of a somewhat eccentric, not always fully backed up with the full weight of evidence. I suppose freedom takes some people that way. The first pub we come to is ‘The  Lord Nelson’.  https://lordnelson.gi/menu/   They serve ‘Our Famous The Full English’ for £9.75 and ‘Healthy avocado toast’ for £7.50. Four days ago Julia was most impressed - in German. ‘We had fish and chips here and it was so delicious! The fish was fantastic, as were the fries and the mushy peas. The service was excellent and friendly. We felt very comfortable and left satisfied. Very authentic with malt vinegar :)’ The ...
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Walking down the line

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  There is something about a land boundary which is just a little bit weird.  A line has been drawn because of History which demarks alleged binary differences so sharp as to be claimed to be in the very DNA of the inhabitants - or not, as the case may be. I am a fan of those borders which wander through houses and split roads.  I am much taken with Livia, which is an enclave of Spain, surrounded by France. We may go there.  All this, because we are going to La Linea de la Concepcion - which sort of exists because Spain runs out short of the end of the land. Take yourself back to the 18th century, go on, you want to really.  The Spanish have decided they want Gibraltar back, thank you very much, and start besieging the place.  Behind the siege lines some buildings are built.  Over the years this grew until, in 1870, the place was declared its own municipality. Today 65,000 live here. Today, to quote wiki ‘ La Línea is a major supplier of fruit and vege...
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A rock and a hard place

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  Honesty is reckoned to be the best policy - albeit one which would have most world leaders not much time to get on with ruling after they have fessed up to a backlog of woeful obscurance.  Today we will pass nothing of note. Much as I love you I am not dashing across the A-7 to get to the Thai restaurant.  We will end the day on a ghost road, a remnant of the new A-383.  We will be near the Arroyo de la Mujer.  That’s it. We’ve done Tangiers. Let us do Gibraltar. It is a somewhat defensible rock on the Med. So it has been for the last 5.33 million years - give or take being a bit more in land during Ice Ages.  Actually, the last time the Med dried up aka Messinian salinity crisis has a neat video on its wiki page so here is the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis The most famous early inhabitants of the rock were the Neanderthals, who were busy dying out about 50,000 years ago. The Phoenicians turned up about 950BC and diverse ot...
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