The last few days we have been staying in Algeciras. It's a small town at the southern tip of Spain. There is not much to do in town, but we stayed here so we could head over to Gilbraltar. Gilbraltar is a piece of land (6 km wide) at the tip of Spain. It is actually part of the UK. We had to take a bus to the border and walk through "customs." It was a joke. Most people didn't even need to show their passports. Of course me (yes, amazing they didn't think I was Spanish) had to. Anyway, we made it. The town sits at the base of the Rock of Gilbaltar. We got into town and ate. It was so weird. Everything was in English again and we were back to paying with pounds. We came full circle. It was nice to be able to order without pointing and making gestures (hopefully not bad ones). After, we took the tram to the top of the rock. You can see Africa from there. We went up the stairs to the view point and sitting on the stairs was a monkey (well an ape, barbary macaques, but they looked like monkeys). No joke, a real monkey just chillin on the stairs enjoying the view with the humans. Come to find out that's Dana. She is known for hanging by the stairs and pickpocketing the tourists for food. She's the most overweight monkey in the town, go figure. Gilbraltar is home to these native monkey's. They are free roaming, but have gotten use to the humans. They town does put out food at the top of the rock, to discourage the monkey's from going into town. They are everywear. Momma's and papa's and babys. The toddler's (smaller than the adults and bigger than the baby's, im guessing terrible two's) would jump on you. They were so cool. We walked around the rock and visited alot of old war memoribilia. There were tunnels and caves all throughout the rock, used during the war (up to WWII).

This hostel doesn't have AC so we are back to sweating. Today is a long, long day of travel. Because we only booked four towns in Spain and Portugual, they are very spread apart, so theres been alot of travel in the last week or so. Today we take a train back to Madrid (5ish hours) then get on a night train to portugual arriving in the morning for our last day in Europe.