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| Hanging out in Gibraltar |
There comes a time when reality hits and it is time to start
looking at the calendar and checking where we need to be at certain dates so
that we will be ready to fly home mid-November, and that was today. It was a
bit of a wake up as we realised that we still had a lot of things to see and a lot
of km’s to travel. Decided to have a day on the motorways and head to Gibraltar,
a place we wanted to see and also heard of a good marina to stay on.
It was onto the A22 just out of Faro and after an hour we
left Portugal and back in Spain and onto a non-toll road. Lots of little settlements
dotted in the hills, the buildings are all white with terracotta roof’s. We were
soon into more fertile country with huge areas of oranges and amazed to see vast
areas growing cotton which was being harvested. We don’t normally like driving
motorways but found todays trip very interesting as such varied scenery.
Although the motorway took us right around Seville we had
decided to give it a miss and when we got caught up in gridlock traffic we were
rather pleased! Then it was South to Gibraltar. The scenery really changed with
large areas of farmland, rather dry and arid but we saw quite large numbers of
cattle, sheep and goats.
After 400kms and 4 ½ hours driving we arrived ….and what a
magnificent place. We are parked looking directly at the large marina, with
great views of Gibraltar. And there was a really good breeze with temperatures
of 22 degrees. Couldn’t be better. Had a long chat with a British couple who
are living on a yacht, they have been enjoying the Mediterranean for several
years but now with Brexit they have had to rethink their plans, and are heading
to Portugal to take up citizenship before they are looked out.
Think we will spend the weekend here, have a good look
around and enjoy some R&R.
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This bridge is all scaffolded and
being sandblasted. |
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| Seville and thanks to Jilly for getting us around. |
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| ...and gridlock traffic |
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| Cotton fields |
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| There is a lot of bull around here! |
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| ..and plenty of goats |
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| Perfect |
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The Rock of Gibraltar lit up at night, the cloud
looked really weird, maybe it is the British weather!!! |
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