Hi, Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 4:03:35 AM, you wrote:
> Hi, > Just wondering if any one has any must see's or do's for traveling to = > Alicante and Gibraltar? > I'll be there in early august, but only for a short time in each. I lived in Gibraltar for 2.5 years and went to school there until the age of 11. Even from the perspective of an 11-year-old there wasn't that much to do. The border with Spain was closed for most of the time we lived there, so it was a bit like a prison. During a holiday in Morocco in the early 80s I went back for a day trip. Nothing much had changed. We took a taxi ride round the rock which lasted about 10 minutes. I had the driver take me to most of the places I remembered. The usual tourist stuff is well documented: St. Michael's Cave, the Barbary Apes, a weird form of Englishness. There are some decent beaches. I seem to recall the museum was quite good. Gibraltar was one of the last known strongholds of Neanderthals and they have some Neanderthal remains, and an Egyptian Mummy. The thing we did most often was diving into the bay from the dockside in the RAF married quarters where we lived. The trick was to avoid the turds bobbling along on the ripples. You probably won't be doing much of that. There's also a casino, but they would never let us in and we didn't have any money anyway. It's something of a heaven for bird watchers during the right seasons because all the birds migrating to and from Africa and Europe use it as a last stop. It's a bit of a bottleneck for that. That's about all I can think of. Enjoy anyway. -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
