Today's narration comes courtesy of Chris.

Drove to La Línea de la Concepción and parked the car in an underground carpark that had cool sensor light things to show whether each one is occupied or free. Then we walked into Gibraltar and just had to show that we were carrying our passports with us. Then we decided to jump on a double-decker bus to get across the airstrip (which Caro missed because she was reading her lonely planet) and into the city.

After alighting the bus, we wandered round for a bit and looked around some of the shops, before finding a table in the sun for a couple of cold drinks and some lunch. Chris ordered Chilli con Carne, and was warned several times that it was extremely hot, but it turned out to be just right in terms of spiciness.

After lunch we made our way to the cable car, dismissing tour-van operators along the way who seemed surprised that anyone would want to walk around on The Rock (i.e. the big hill) when they could ride in a nice hot van. The cable car ride took a couple of minutes, and delivered us to the main lookout. We had the option of an audio tour but chose to decline because they held a passport as security, and we thought we might walk down so didn't want to have to come back to the top cable car station.

The views from the main lookout were pretty amazing. There were some of the monkeys (Barbary Apes) we'd been warned about there, happily relaxing on the handrail of the lookout with a 400m sheer drop on one side. We took a couple of pictures of them, and the one suddenly became amorous towards the other one and climbed onto it, but that only lasted a few seconds. (Monkeys don't do foreplay.) There were other details that I won't mention. It was a bit gross.

Moving on, our next challenge was to try to find the exit from the building. We eventually figured out that "Nature Reserve" meant exit, and so we made our way outside.

There were a million more monkeys outside, all over the place. We took loads of photos and videos, and headed towards St Michael's Cave. We had to pay to get into the cave, but it was pretty amazing, and even had an auditorium with tiered seats. Loads more photos.

Chris wanted to see the Great Siege tunnels next, which was included in our cave ticket. We headed in that direction, but it was much further than we expected. When we were almost there we spotted a sign that said the WWII tunnels were only open until 5:30pm, and it was about 5:26. Stink! Thinking we'd missed out, we turned our attention towards finding toilets. Eventually we located some, near the walkway up to the tunnel entrance. After making use of them, Caro checked with a nearby security guard post about whether the tunnels were closed, and he said they were open until 7pm. Joy! (It turns out that the WWII tunnels are separate.)

The tunnels were really fascinating, and had lots of plaques with details about The Great Siege.

After wandering around the tunnels for an hour we walked back down to the city. We found a cafe in a plaza area and had fish and chips for dinner.

After dinner we walked back across the airport runway to La Linea, and then drove back to Veher de la Frontera, and got there about 8pm. As luck would have it, we found a car park on the square. Bonza! petty we didn't notice the sign.