Gibraltar

10 facts about Gibraltar.

• It has the only wild monkey population in the whole of Europe. Gibraltar is home to a troop of mischievous Barbary macaques
• There’s only 29 km of roads (And they drive on the right over there, unlike Britain.)
• Bond, James Bond has been there! Gibraltar has appeared in two films from the spy series. It is where Bond is supposedly buried at sea
• Its airport has one of the strangest runways in the world. The street closes whenever a plane lands or departs, with a pair of barriers.
• Gibraltar has it own language. Llanito, spoken in Gibraltar, is a strange mix of Andalusian Spanish and English, along with spatterings of Portuguese and Maltese words, others of Genoese medieval dialect, and even some of Hebrew origin. Speakers seem to switch languages mid-sentence, making it nearly impossible for those who speak only English or Spanish to understand.
• Gibraltar got big population. Gibraltar is just 2.6 square miles in size and, with a population of about 33,000 people.
• There are red phone boxes Gibraltar really looks like it is a slice of Britain in the sun, with red phone boxes, Bobbies on the beat, branches of UK high street retailers, and more greasy spoon cafes.
• It’s dry land. Gibraltar got no rivers or streams.
• It has the southernmost mosque in Europe. (I didn't manage to see it because of monkey chasing) Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque was a £5-million gift from the King of Saudi Arabia and is one of the largest in a non-Muslim country. Many Gibraltarians were outraged when it was built, in 1997.
• It's heaven for birdwatchers .More than 300 species pass Gibraltar while travelling between Africa and Europe.