Spain 2011 Day 11 Thursday June 2

Spain day 11 – Thursday, June 2, 2011 – Gibralter, Seville – 257 miles

Ayre Hotel Sevilla, Avenida Kansas City, Seville E-41018

http://www.ayrehoteles.com/en/hotels/ayre-hotel-sevilla/

GLOBUS: “Drive to the ROCK OF GIBRALTAR, in British hands since 1704. Hear about its turbulent history from your Local Guide, see the Moorish Castle, and visit ST. MICHAEL’S CAVES and the colony of Barbary apes. Then, on through the sunny sherry wine region on the Costa de la Luz to vibrant, festive Seville. (Breakfast, Dinner)”

Back to the 6:15 wake-up call for an 8:15 departure to Gibraltar. Around 10am the bus arrived below the big rock, as it couldn’t go in or they would inspect all our luggage. So we walked across the border, showing our passports, and then took a little van up to the main square.

But we first stopped at St. Michael’s cave, which was awfully damp and clammy, but they actually hold concerts there and rows and rows of seats were set up. I don’t like caves so I did not linger as some others did. Outside the cave lived many small monkeys, which were very bold, climbing all over the busses and all over some people too. People seemed to like them, but I did not.

Then the bus went downhill on another route, both up and down being one way, needed for the steep rock town. We had also stopped at the farthest south point of Europe to look over at Africa, but it was rather foggy today so did not see it. We were finally let off at the town square, where we ate fish and chips of course! Walked around a bit then back to the van for the downhill climb to the border, show passports again and walked to our big bus and back on the road to SEVILLE! Dinner at the hotel so we didn’t have to go anywhere after a long long day.