Saturday 9 February

Rock of Gibraltar

Writing this in brilliant sunshine, just 2 miles along the coast from the picture. So please excuse any typos, can only just about read the screen!

The trip from Tarifa (I've been spelling it all wrong) was not very far but easily one of the most picturesque roads we've been on so far. After a call at Lidl for supplies for the weekend, we had to stop several times just to admire the view. The pictures on here won't do it justice, but you'll get the idea.

Coast looking southwest

On one stretch, we missed a superb shot, so turned round and went back! We've got better on the camcorder so will try to change it later.

An electricity pylon
Gibraltar from the west overlooking Algeciras

From here on, the road dropped down to the coast at Algeciras and we took the by-pass around this very busy town, but always with the rock in view. Once past, we took the road to La Lineas de las Concepcion, which is the border town and followed it right up to the crossing. There was quite a queue waiting to cross, but we had been advised not to take the van over as it was a lot of hassle getting back. The Spanish are still sensitive about Gibraltar!

So after checking possible parking places if we should decide not to use the bus to come back, we continued along the coast road to a campsite about 3km north of the town and booked in for 4 nights. A nice site next to a sports centre with around 50 pitches, we were the only people there! We were allocated a very nice spot, in full sun and reasonably close to all the amenities.

A chat with the lady revealed there was a bus from "just down the road" that would take us into the centre of town. A walk later showed it was 1 1/2 km, albeit along the beach. We did note however that La Lineas was quite scruffy and obviously this was not the best part of town. Will have to think again.

Our pitch in the sun

Returning to the site we found a French motorhome had arrived, but parked not too close. Later, as it got dark, an English van arrived but they stayed quite close to the reception area. Will go and chat with them later as we think they used their van to get to Gibraltar.