Top of the morning sunrise

I had read that the sunrise was going to be beautiful, so I got up in time to get some pictures before and had some coffee while watching the sunrise from the starboard side of the ship which was facing the Rock of Gibraltar 🇬🇮

I had downloaded a map to get a lay of the land, but it’s a small area, and fairly easy to navigate. Once disembarking the ship, the cruise terminal has a tourist information booth where you can get a nice, large map.

We didn’t have any planned excursions and thought we were going to walk to the cable cars to get up the mountain, but there were tons of “driver guides” ready to take guests on tours that were supposed to last 1.5-2 hours for £35. David, our guide was both fluent in English and Spanish, and the tour included St. Michael’s Cave, the Apes feeding area, the Skywalk, WWII Tunnels, and the Moorish Castle. Europa Point was not a scheduled stop, but I asked the driver if he would go there and luck had it that a family of 5 wanted to go to Europa Point as well, so he took the 7 of us in his Mercedes mini van.Read more