Gibraltar

The plane was not flying one night cause of weather, so a few of us headed down to Gibraltar. The drive was not too exciting. Gibraltar is pretty impressive looking though as you approach it! As usual in europe sometimes crazy narrow streets and a great difficulty finding parking. Took a cable car to the top. There are barbary macaques there, and plenty of warning signs about them. Still, some lady had put her handbag down. We watched as one calmly walked up to it, looking around, then sat there, took hold of it, and precisely opened a zipper, and reached inside and found a plastic bag. Other people noticed and yelled warnings to the lady who quickly picked up her handbag, leaving the monkey (yes though they're tailless, they're monkeys not apes) with only an empty plastic bag. She's damn lucky. Anyways, great views from up there, can see the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and can see Africa. Wandered along some trails at the top. It's amazing how unmaintained it is. There's old rusty bent metal sticking out and all sorts, nothing's blocked off. And a lot of places have a lot of trash. Stupid people dumping their water bottles and other crap. And some graffitti or people scratching their names. I think there were a few noteworthy places around the rock we could have visited, but didn't get around to cause we got too hungry. But hiking around was worthwhile in itself. Also walked around a while in town, has a British feel. But nothing exceptional to remark on. Took forever to get out of town, and the route was chaos, there were people directing traffic in who knows what kind of system but it was definitely screwed up, especially including a u-turn with noone or even a traffic cone to lend some order to it.