The Brilliant MSC Splendida or Cruise from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic and back. Part 7
To be continued. Start here:
7. Gibraltar
And after Casablanca and crossing the Atlantic, where I felt a little bit of the excitement of the ocean, we are back in Europe. The excitement in the ocean felt like a slight sway, I even asked my wife, I went over the whiskey, but no, she was also shaking, almost a non-drinker. The clock has been changed from Greenwich Mean Time to European Time.
The night passed, and we enter the outpost of England - Gibraltar, or as the British say, "The Rock".
Entering Gibraltar
Gibraltar terminal
And again - short stops across Europe. In Gibraltar from 9-00, departure of the liner at 14-00. On the ship should be in the worst case at 13-30. Again, as in Barcelona, the problem of choice!
The morning is quite foggy, damp. Without any problems, the British let a lot of taxis, minibuses into their territory, invite them to trips to the caves, to the monkeys on the mountain. The guys were tempted and left, but we were in the New Athos caves in the Caucasus, and in the Sukhumi monkey nursery, so we will spend time in the town, we liked it very much. I would still go there.
View of the rock and the city
From the cruise terminal past the seaport building with an interesting sculpture along Waterport Road we go to the old town.
Mimosa Alley
A very interesting alley of mimosa trees, I have never seen such large mimosa flowers. Subtropical vegetation, flowers are already in bloom, interesting houses, a modern hotel building, double-decker buses, English telephone booths. Well, a piece of England!
And it breathes with some kind of tranquility, although all the streets are filled with tourists. In many stores there are announcements that Splendida passengers have big discounts.
Discounts in shops for tourists from Splendida
Here they sell Swiss watches with prices lower than in Switzerland
We enter through the fortress gates on Casemates Square.
Casemates Square
There are interesting glass-blowing workshops with a shop here, where craftsmen can make a glass vase, a glass in front of you and for you, or you can buy it in a store, but the prices bite (handmade).
Handmade glass
Next, the main street Main Street
Main Street
, along it we go to the Cathedral,
Cathedral
next Convention,
Convention
Nearby is a museum with such polished cannons that you can look into them.
There is a sentry near the Convention. I took a picture of my wife near the figure of a glass blower (dummy),
Near the glassblowing workshop with a glassblower
Near the Convention with a sentry.
Here, however, the sentry stood as if rooted to the spot, and only after watching him did I see him blink. Here is the fix! All fruits are orange trees, palm trees, beautiful vegetation, we pass to the end of the street, then a cable car to the mountain, but we don’t need to go there.
Let's go back, looking into the shops. Given that Gibraltar is a free zone with no taxes, prices here are lower than in the European Union. We saw this in the prices of food, drinks, and manufactured goods. So my friend bought a Swiss watch cheaper than he saw in Italy, I thought it was inconvenient to ask him about the price, but somewhere around 20% cheaper. We sat for a while in a cafe, drank English beer, and it's time to return, the ship will not wait for us. On the way we saw how the plane with cars was driving. Such an intersection! The landing strip of the airfield crosses the highway and there is a barrier for passing cars along the highway.
Intersection with runway or runway
We will leave Gibraltar soon
We leave Gibraltar with regret. There are a lot of ships on the roads of Gibraltar, a ferry passes to Africa, there are Spanish possessions, but we are turning on a course to Valencia.
I have posted a lot of photos here, as traveling to Gibraltar is not often seen here.
+XNight Gibraltar
+XNight Gibraltar
