Early morning as we were off to see the monkeys at Gibraltar!

Our little group of 9 with Matthew, our tour director, left the hotel and our sister school behind behind at 730 am. We travelled to Gibraltar for 1.5 hrs. Seeing the rock from afar was picturesque with one cloud around the top.

After arriving at our meeting place, we teamed with another EF group since we were so small. What’s. small world – Balgonie was our partner! Of all of the places in the world, a town an hour away from home. There was one girl who has relatives from YG and Pangman area.

We jumped in smaller vans and went to see the view as we crawled up the rock. We saw where the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea meet up and saw the spot that the Queen and Prince Philip stood when they were there. I wonder if they will put up a plaque for us.

Our next stop had us going into a monster cave and seeing the beautiful stalagmites set to a light and music show. After emerging from the cave, monkeys were there to enjoy and view. The monkeys are very important to Gibraltar, which has been ruled by the Moors, the Spanish and then the British. Winston Churchill said that the rock will remain British until there are zero monkeys left.

From there we went to tour the tunnel system in the big rock.

It was very interesting to see, but we could have spent more time with the monkeys.

We went for a British tapas lunch of Yorkshire pudding, shepherds pie, and fish and chips with mushy peas.

A little shopping followed where souvenirs were found with lots of monkeys and then back to the beach for a couple hours.

Our time is winding down. It’s been fun , but I think the energy is starting to be spent.

Tomorrow we tour an olive and almond farm and then prepare for our long flight home on Friday.