day 19 closest to home

Slightly grey skies as i leave the hostel which match my feelings, I'm going to miss Seville! The best stop so far! 

This morning's planned time killing wander as I head towards the Bus estacion met the usual Seville standards.... ie beyond expectations! 

Initially I wandered past the spot the flamenco dancer had performed, picked up a coffee, then headed into Parque Maria de Luisa  

always nicely laid out and even in their winters the trees are verdant and birds are singing! 

The people certainly make the most of them dig walkers socialising, joggers going past today I walk a small market being assembled, then out and into the breathtaking plaza de Espana!

Beautiful towers pools, tiled bridges and around the semicircle of buildings each Spanish district had tiled displays

wandering through and offering to take photos for struggling couples always gets the offer reciprocated 

away and around the left hand tower in the last image and I'm on the roads to the Bus estacion with time to spare stilted conversations with the women waiting got me friendly with a couple of Moroccan girls both recommending a visit to Tangier's! That's two offers to visit now .... Perhaps I will on the return trip! 

the road calls and the country is soon blurring past a mixture of open plains with cattle grazing, more of those broccoli looking forests oddly no orange plantations! 

Into some mountains and along a coast and for the first in my life I see Africa! Grey and distant but Africa without a doubt

soon the road loops around a bay with Gibraltar sitting defiantly and determinedly British! 

Off the bus at La Linea de la concepcion and short walk takes me to the border and country 3! I think Gibraltar qualifies! 

It's nice to see the union flag in it's own territory along with the Gibraltar flag and also for the first time I see the flag of the commonwealth flapping in the breeze!

over the runway

and into the still fortified town, I drop my kit off at the hostel and head off exploring, getting lost in the docks on the outbound walk but back through the town centre which is actually ok! 

I'm not sure any town would get a wow this place is great straight after Seville so consider my description quite a complement for the place!

Picking up a quick takeaway and a mango cider(bloody lovely!!) I'm back the hostel to kip for the night.

Now about the hostel.... Honestly it's a bit crap! The most expensive couple of nights so far,no breakfast but it does have WiFi.... And it's clean enough! 

It's kind of the level I expected hostels to be at before I started! 

So I'm ok with it