But did you get to hang out with the monkeys? :)
(I was there as a military brat kid - one day stop as we were on a ship from NY to Italy.)
“But did you get to hang out with the monkeys? :)”
Yup...very important critters, too - legend says that Gibraltar will pass from English rule when the monkey’s are gone. Quoting from Wikipedia...
“A popular belief holds that as long as Barbary Macaques exist on Gibraltar, the territory will remain under British rule. In 1942 (during World War II), after the population dwindled to just a handful of individuals (just seven monkeys), British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill ordered that their numbers be replenished immediately from forest fragments in both Morocco and Algeria because of this traditional belief.”
And I really do have a piece of the Rock, on display in my living room - a small collection of “significant” artifacts from various places around the world.