Gibraltar, Lisbon and Le Havre

In Europe looking at Africa......Half way up Rock of Gibraltar

Bit higher up the rock

And they weren't in a cage just other side of a fence -

He jumped up just to prove it

But this little one was so cute

This one ran down and stole a sign from the van.....

Guides were allowed to feed the apes, the little ones!

Anything bigger than this bloke and it would have been interesting

It was fun

Despite lack of smile on my face

Still had sunnies off, didn't want the monkeys to steal them

Always got a shot of "home" if we had the chance, she is in front of a much bigger ship.....

This looked sillier in person, chihuahua and rotty!

Why not use a prop when you can

A rather healthy lunch :) mmmmm fats and carbs mmmmm

Amazing where we came across canons, but gee we were in ports that needed protecting ....

words fail me for this caption....

Katie's turn at a different phone box

Now onto Lisbon, the town from where we docked

Could explain the 2 lots of drugs dealers we saw offering stuff

Ray and Paula in their Go Car

Carmen and Neale our brilliant navigators

Ray and Paula making sure we don't lag behind and get lost

And I thought all the waves we got were because we looked cool :) I forgot about our hair nets!

On the road....the right hand side, was a challenge

Some building we went past, but I was too busy concentrating to notice

We got overtaken at one point !

Back in order, us in the middle

Half way time out........

Sangria for lunch ...mmmmm

Beautiful streets

Yep another  port another gelati

And this at a petrol pump on side of road........interesting

Katie with Vincent and Leo in the background on our last night in the MDR

mmmmmm

Last port Le Havre, only port with bad weather, but still had a good day

Our french breakfast in a cafe

French macarons

Le Havre in the rain,had pretty parts to it

Our menu in French that we figured out, then we got it in English and we were right :)

Yep an omelette, they look like this and taste so good

The cafe was close to the port

Make sure you take big steps on this crossing!

Well we had to buy some and bye bye to cruise

Barcelona

Columbus and I pointing to the New World...........well you can't see his head so

There it is

Katie drinking the very yummy Sangria we ordered at lunch

And we were very amused by the glass it came in

Dan and Katie enjoying the Sangria

Our tapas......all I can say is yay for all the walking we did

Onto  the Hop on Hop off Bus for our city tour

Sunny day, wonderful lunch........oops not walking here

Some of Gaudi's work...amazing stuff

More

So pretty

The unfinished church of Gaudi's

The 1st of many pics of it.....was too hard to choose just one

So used ones we were in ...

or not in

Dan ....

This side was done by Gaudi, other parts that are continuing are what "they" imagine he would do

Pic is a bit small to capture the detail.....sorry

Fascinating.....

Bit of sunburn happening on my arm there.....from a day or so ago

If you follow the arrow you run smack bang into a wall

Ceiling

Now the magnificent park ......again by Gaudi

Fabulous

Nice shot kids

Another mother and daughter moment

Intricate tiled work

Nice view, our ship is out there some-where

An excuse for a sit.......take my photo :)

And fancy that running into gelati

Smurf flavoured at that

With real smurfs

mmmmmm

2 heads in the water are Katie and Dan, I tried to keep a eye on them

But the beach was a tad crowded

It says crazy on the inside of the bottle......tasted a  bit the same :)

Beautiful Barcelona.........love to return one day