Gibraltar

We walked to the UK from Spain.

It took us about 3 hours to fly to Espana, but only about 3 minutes to walk back.

We must be fast.

Or maybe we visited a piece of the UK that is actually far, far, far from our home in Cambridge.

They checked our passports at the door, customs checked our bags (kind of) and we were home.

Meet Gibraltar everyone.

A city known for it's gorgeous view of Africa, abundance of monkey's and Prudential adverts.

The actual rock of Gibraltar was awesome for it's history, the experience, and the three things mentioned above...but the city itself lacked the charm we had experienced in Spain.

We spent half a day exploring the rock (which we actually learned on our tour is fairly hollow...so much for Prudential, huh?)

This is what we found:

Views of Africa.

You can't really see it in the pic, but believe me, it was there!

A few monuments testifying of Gibraltar's coolness.

WWII tunnels with lookout points hundreds of feet high that had loose bars that Mr. T wanted to pull out for fun to give his mother a heart attack.

History lessons.

Monkeys.

I saw enough monkey's in Taiwan to know that they are not the nicest animals in the world (it kind of creeps me out that they walk beside you and fight at your feet), but Jim and T were fascinated.

A shirt that accurately describes our little Baldilocks!

Cannons to rest on and beautiful scenery.

A royal palace. No serious, this is it. We were in the UK but this was no Buckingham Palace!

We were super grateful for the opportunity to see Gibraltar and appreciated it for all that it was...but boy oh boy were we happy to return to Spain's beautiful soil!