Tale of Two Theme Parks

Last weekend we went away for a couple of days to the coast, just to make a change and be by the coast as i live about 1 hour inland and up in the mountains, it is my preference but it is away from the beach, the beach is nice for touristy things and shopping. So as i had just come back from working away we decided to go to Gibraltar just to have a look around and then we found a nice little B&B right on the beach in Estapona. The drive down to Gib was uneventful enough apart from the fact we missed the turn off for the coast highway and managed to end up on the toll road, I hate paying for roads. We arrived at the entry road across the airport runway, the access to Gib is across the airport unbelievably. So just at that point i had a funny feeling that we had forgotten passports, yes we had, I had forgotten that you need them to gain entry as it is basically the UK. Also you cannot believe this one, as we drove down we had to have the A/C running in the car as the sun was so hot, it was blazing blue skies. When we arrived to the Gibraltar border, it was friggin' foggy, a giant wall of fog that blotted out the top of the rock, in fact the cloud base was about 10 foot so we saw almost nothing and the wind was also blowing pretty cold, we wanted to have a meal but we tried parking and the parking machine we put 3 Euros in refused to give us a ticket, by this time i was a raging lunatic, I was goose stepping up and down shouting abuse at the ticket machine, I don't think Jenny my wife was amused but after I calmed down we drove back to Estapona and found a small restaurant where we had fish and chips, only problem was it cost $50, far too much for spain but the fish was nice. So after eating far too much we carried on back to find this B&B. I was using my new GPS, just a miraculous piece of technolgy, we drove directly to this guys house, it was this fabulous little house , take a look,

http://www.spanish-vacations.com/

but he wasn't at home so we walked all around the local condominium. It was a wonderfully small scale development, as compared to the ugly giant apartment complexes that have been the norm for the last 30 years, it was only 100 yards from the sea, not really a beach, just a sea wall and lots of pebbles. the next two days we were going to visit the two theme parks i am now going to blog about next.