Gibraltar’s English charm
Gibraltar offers a “quirky blend of Anglo tradition, Andalusian ease, and small-town bonding,” said Spud Hilton in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Though the 21.5-square-mile peninsula at the mouth of the Mediterranean is geographically connected to Spain, it remains one of the last outposts of the British Empire. That heritage is “slathered liberally across the landscape like Marmite on toast,” from its red double-decker buses to streets with names like Parliament Lane and Winston Churchill Avenue. I ate steak-and-ale pie at the oldest of Gibraltar’s 360 pubs, Star Bar, where a Union Jack was draped from the ceiling. At the Angry Friar, a “hotel-room-size pub,” I sampled British brews. Then it was time to explore Gibraltar’s limestone peaks, especially the Upper Rock. It “juts tooth-like from the sea,” and from the top—though it’s only 1,400 feet up—you can see clear across to Africa.
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