Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a very special place, because it doesn't belong to Spain, but to Britain. Our car insurance didn't take effect in Gibraltar, but I crossed the border accidentally, turned around, crossed back to Spain, parked the car in La Linea, and crossed the border by feet.
In this colony of Britain they drive on the right side, they have double-deckers where the driver sits on the left, and other strange things. Other that that it's just like Britain. They speak British English occasionally tempered by Spanish words in the most unexpected parts of the sentence.
We hired a taxi driver who took us all around for 2 hours or so. So we went up on the big rock, saw a huge cave which used to be a military base, saw the wall and the tunnel from the era of Charles V., fed the monkey colony, (almost all its 300 members), and drove back to the border through the city. The driver gave us a very detailed lecture about Gibraltar, which was really useful. He was a little bit confused if the Second World War was in the 40's or in the 50's, and asked us if we've heard about it. But other than that it was a good choice.
One more interesting thing is that when you cross the border from Spain you must cross the airport's runway. How? There is a traffic light on both sides, which turns red 10 minutes before landing or departure of an aircraft.

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