April 5: Gibraltar

The little country of Gibraltar was quite a bit different than we expected. We imagined it to be a wealthy little British community, all quaint with red phone boxes and changing of the guard at a palace. The expectation of affluence came from what we'd read about how expensive it is to live there or even get a hotel due to lack of space. But Gibraltar turned out to be larger than we thought, not

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by Jour ~ Friday, May 25, 2007 0 comments

April 4: Driving from Cordoba to Algeciras

Okay, here's a quick post to get the rest of April 4 out of the way. It was pretty uneventful, but I have a few pictures to share, and then the next travel report can be devoted to Gibraltar! In Cordoba we didn't feel we had time to stop and have tapas or a proper meal and we had a surprisingly difficult time finding any quick street food. We made do with a scoop of ice cream from a shop near the

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by Jour ~ Thursday, May 3, 2007 0 comments