We were in the huge Wok Real in Campamento mid week. Usually full of a mixture of local Spanish, Gibraltarians, holidaymakers and expats. It was empty.

We have Gibraltar resident friends who come to their house in the Campo de Gibraltar for the weekends. Today it took 2 hours to leave Gibraltar - on a Sunday it's usually 10 minutes.

They say that the Gib restaurants are loving it.

We walked through Catalan Bay today, it was standing room only in the restaurants there.

i doubt UK will ever abandon Gibraltar. the British Empire has lost so much over centuries. need to keep some territory.
it's gonna be resolved. it's also a Royal Navy base correct ?
EUR50 per person per day is nice cash though for the Spanish gvt. (EUR 500,000 a day ? 10K people crossing every day, isn't it ?)
if only they would make the controls MUCH faster.
besides Spain has morocan territory too just the other side.

Frontier queues of up to 4 hours Tuesday evening

http://gbc.gi/news/2644/frontier-que...uesday-evening

Long walking queues as well yesterday - 1 1/2 hours.

ROCKY TRIP
Meanwhile there were also reports that the freighter ‘Hamal’, flying a Cook Islands flag is bound for Gibraltar carrying an order of 2,700 tons of stone that the Government of Gibraltar has acquired through Sofareia, a Portuguese company to be used for the redevelopment of Sandy Bay.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=31296

Checking on http://www.marinetraffic.com the Hamal is berthed close to Faro, so I pressume the stone is being loaded there.

A barge carrying stones from Portugal arrived at the Gibraltar port yesterday. The ‘Fehn Mirage’ was escorted by Police vessels, after Guardia Civil launches came into Gibraltar waters to photograph the vessel.

http://gbc.gi/news/2660/stone-shipme...ivil-challenge

This is a different ship to the one in my previous post, but the origin was still Portugal

Well stone the crows.

I wonder when the Spanish govt will realize what complete R-soles they've made of themselves ...............again.

The security surrounding the vessel was probably understandable after it arrived loaded with 2,700 tons of rocks. And comes after the first failed attempt to bring a similar consignment from Morocco, this after the Moroccan owners of the vessel, a ferry, appeared to get cold-feet. Panorama understands the Moroccan owners felt intimidated by the Spanish Authorities, fearing we believe, that the Moroccan ferry operations from Tangier to Algeciras would be adversely affected if the said ferry was seen delivering rocks to Gibraltar after this had been by the Spanish Government.

In fact the full consignment is expected to reach over 20,000 tons of rocks and possibly other similar materials.

We understand the vessel is expected to make about 10 similar visits to and from the Portuguese end of the trip in Faro.

The Spanish unions have every right to be concerned that Gibraltar could turn to alternative labour from Morocco or Portugal. In so far as one of the contracts awarded the other week is concerned over the fence. I’m pretty sure that most of the construction labour and even possible materials, as we saw yesterday will come from abroad.

http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/hea...10991&offset=0

Definitely got their knickers in a twist today

I'm due at the Convent to have a word with the Governor

The Guardia Civil Maritime division are short of boats! One is broken down and another has gone to Algeciras on Gibraltar duties. Nice for the drug smugglers

http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2013/10/...16_966520.html

Is it still my mate - Sir Adrian - or has he finished his stint?

It am

He leaves soon, before Christmas I believe

The newest Police boat 26 mtrs will be named after him when it arrives.

He was rather busy but I managed a few words with his wife.

Tories sold off the Royal Mail. Why not put Gibraltar on the market ?