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Wow, long travel day today. We got up and had coffee in view of the Seville Cathedral again. Great poeple watching - must have been some weddings going on, lots of people walking by all dressed up. We then caught a bus to La Linea, the border city by Gibraltar. It was a 4 hour bus ride ... we sat in the second row of seats, which was nice, but 4 hours on a bus was long ... arrived in La Linea and walked up to the Passport Control center into Gibraltar ... and barely got a glance from the security worker. Very anticlimactic :)

Once in Gib we crossed the airport runway (seriously, look up Gibraltar on Google Maps - the runway runs right across by the border and straight into the ocean!) and then walked a couple of km into town to our hotel. Never saw a taxi. Luckily, it's slightly cooler here, so it wasn't horrible.

(Me, runway, The Rock)

Our hotel is right near the city center, so we walked around and bought a converter for our electronics (we have them for Spain, but they have UK plugs here) and had dinner (chicken curry - YUM!) and a beer.

Now we're sitting on the patio of our hotel to use the wifi and book train tickets to Granada on Tuesday.

Tomorrow we're planning to take the cable car to the top of "The Rock" in the morning and hike around - see the monkeys, the WWII caves, etc. Monday we have a 6 hour sailing tour in the Mediterranean.

It's really really nice to hear English again.

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