Archives for the '2004 – Gibraltar' Category
Mallorca : Soller
The train was old and noisy, perfect for Dan! The trip took an hour, and was indeed spectacular, going to and through the mountains. No health and safety regulations here, the lower parts of every window were wide open, and we passed many concrete posts and signs between 8 and 18 inches away, so you [...]
Dan’s Birthday
Wednesday 14th July, Dan’s third birthday! This was the last day that Barry and Cat were to be with us, we had a lot of card and present giving, the most popular present being one that I had been waiting to give Dan for about 18 months, a Thomas the Tank engine train set with [...]
Barry’s visit
Sun 11th July, Barry arrived at about 3 in the afternoon with his friend Cat, he had had to land at Malaga and was not permitted by the Spanish authorities to fly directly on to Gibraltar. We did wonder why there were no flights from Spain here! He could have flown via Tangiers in Morocco [...]
Anchorage at La Linea
We decided to move the boat to the other side of the breakwater of La Linea which is in fact in Spain, as the breakwater is hooked and afforded a lot of protection from the waves. However we did not check in with anyone as there is no visitors’ marina and we believe no office [...]
Gibraltar (continued)
Monday 5th July Today a Nimrod type plane took off, what a noise! It is many times more noisy than a passenger jet, and very scary for Dan, he has learnt to cover his ears up to deaden the noise! Later it arrived back again, similar noise levels! We ate a late lunch at an [...]
The Rock
Sunday 4th July we decided to do the cable car trip up the Rock. We landed in the middle of the harbour again with the dinghy and found the station next to the Botanical Gardens. Although it was afternoon already the lady said we would have time to do the full ticket which would enable [...]
Gibraltar
The next day, Saturday 3rd July, we woke up late and we could see at least half the rock, although the top half was submerged in cloud, which we could see was forming on the other side of the rock and being blown over it. We were not sure what to wear because the air [...]
Journey from Portimão to Gibraltar
The next day, Thursday 1st July, we decided to proceed along the coast. Although we had seen adverts for Aqualand and for a sand sculpture exhibition which we were interested in, we decided to leave those for now. We considered heading for Faro or Cadiz, but Faro itself is a long way up a creek [...]