{"id":217,"date":"2008-10-07T17:56:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T23:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-10-07T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T22:00:25","slug":"spain-and-morocco-may-2008-welcome-to-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2008\/10\/07\/spain-and-morocco-may-2008-welcome-to-gibraltar\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain and Morocco &#8211; May 2008 &#8211; Welcome to Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gibraltar_welcome_sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-219\" title=\"Gibraltar Welcome Sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gibraltar_welcome_sign-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gibraltar_welcome_sign-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gibraltar_welcome_sign.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been fascinated with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gibraltar\">Gibraltar<\/a> for some time, and when the opportunity to visit popped up after our return to Spain via the ferry, we stashed our bags at a hostel near the ferry terminal and took a bus to\u00c2\u00a0La L\u00c3\u00adnea de la Concepci\u00c3\u00b3n and walked across the border to the British overseas territory. It was as fascinating as I had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, we wanted to stay in Gibraltar, but we couldn&#8217;t find a hotel with any vacancies that we could afford, so we had to settle for a few short hours and a sunset meal. While we spoke the language, Gibraltar felt as different and interesting as Spain or Morocco had been &#8211; maybe even a little more.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the runway in Gibraltar runs perpendicular to the main road (Winston Churchill Ave.) that enters the town from mainland Spain. There is literally a stoplight stops you from attempting to move across the runway when a jet is taking off or landing. Every bit of flat land in Gibraltar is used in some way.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=gibraltar&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=36.153158,-5.348282&amp;spn=0.010517,0.014141&amp;t=h&amp;z=16\">Click here to see a map of where this picture was taken<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated with Gibraltar for some time, and when the opportunity to visit popped up after our return to Spain via the ferry, we stashed our bags at a hostel near the ferry terminal and took a bus to\u00c2\u00a0La L\u00c3\u00adnea de la Concepci\u00c3\u00b3n and walked across the border to the British overseas territory. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}