I came across this great video footage of Austrailian comedians Hamish and Andy attempting to reach Africa from Gibraltar using only their aqua trike.
This comedy duo have shot a very funny film, a must see.
Europe and Africa are separated by 7.7 nautical miles (14.3 km; 8.9 mi) of ocean at the strait’s narrowest point.
After 8 gruelling hours watch the clip to see whether or not they succeed.
Click on the photo below to view Hamish and Andy’s video.
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After the success of Monmouth becoming the 1st Wikipedia town in the United kingdom, Gibraltar is to become the 1st Wikipedia city. GibraltapediA is aiming high. It will be the first time a whole city has been embraced in this way.
This means that there will be Wikipedia pages describing all the different tourist attraction and places of interest around the rock.
This will be fantastic for Gibraltar. Visitors to the rock will be able to use their mobile devices such as iPhones, smart phones and iPads to look up all the historical facts regarding the places they are seeing in their own native language.
QrPedia codes will be used to enable this. The QrPedia codes sense the language that your mobile devices are set to.
All landmarks and places of interest, for example St Michael’s Cave, will have a Qr code for you to scan and obtain all the relevant information regarding its history.
Absolutely amazing news for Gibraltar that is said to receive anything from 6 million to 9.5 million visitors a year.
Gibraltar is such a historical place that these Qr codes will be invaluable for visitors wanting to gain knowledge without going on an official tour. They will be able to learn so much simply by using their phone!
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As an avid Facebook and Twitter user I found these latest statistics
a very interesting read. I know that many of you Gibraltarians are using the internet for both business and pleasure
and may find this artical of interest.
Germany is shown to be the leading European country to use Facebook, whilst countries like Egypt actually
ranked 6th in the world as the fastest growing Facebook country.
Top of the leader board however is Brazil!
Please follow the link for the original story.
http://www.socialbakers.com/blog/684-facebook-statistics-2012-top-growing-countries/
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Motor Yacht Nicky J would make an ideal live-aboard or holiday home in the sun.
Birthed in the lovely port of Marina Bay in Gibraltar, she is close to all the amenities
Gibraltar has to offer.
Fancy running a bed and breakfast in the sun?
Nicky J is ideal for a bed and breakfast business. A couple could easily manage to cater for
Guests and this would go a long way to covering all of the mooring fee costs.
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The residents of La Línea de la Concepción are leaving, like rats deserting a sinking ship.
They’ve been crossing the border by the thousands since early morning, first the cleaning women, nannies and construction workers, and then the smugglers. They all want to get out of Spain, if only for a few hours. There is work across the border, in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, and work spells hope for a better life.
La Linea has around a 40% unemployment rate and it’s rising.
Many Families have had to resort to smuggling cigarettes in order to put food on their plates.
Several trips per day will be made by ‘Matuteras’ overweight women, who can hide more easily excess cartons of cigarettes about their person.
The women set out across the border. The more experienced ones wear their ID cards on a chain around their necks, so that they don’t have to search for it every time they cross the border. One carton of cigarettes per person and crossing is allowed. Those who do not get checked and registered put on different clothes on the Spanish side and set out for Gibraltar again.
The border crossers make a profit of €4 per carton. The operators of the kiosks on the Spanish side, who will sell the cigarettes later, collect another €6. The actual retail price is another €9 higher. But the retail price is no longer important in La Línea, where five of the several regular tobacco shops have gone out of business
The fact that many people “prefer to make €200 a day smuggling cigarettes than €400 a month as an unskilled worker in a supermarket,” as a Guardia Civil officer at the border puts it, doesn’t make things easier.
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The people of Menorca are suffering due to Spain’s financial problems.
Many of the holiday companies have introduced all inclusive deals to attract holiday makers leading to the closure of many bars and restaurants.
A Spanish inhabitant of Menorca told The Mail on Sunday,
‘If you British were to give Gibraltar back to Spain you could ask for Menorca in exchange. The Menorquines would be delighted!’
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For half a century she has been by his side, a quiet, dignified presence through turbulent decades. But now Spain is beginning to ask just how much more Queen Sofia can take.
Against a backdrop of family financial scandal and an increasingly troubled marriage to King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia was counting the days until she could escape to London and attend Friday’s Jubilee banquet at Windsor Castle – an eagerly anticipated family gathering.
Due to increasing pressure from the Spanish government over the ongoing dispute about Gibraltar, the Queen was forced to cancel her trip to the Uk to attend the banquet.
There is increasing tension between the two nations due to an ongoing row over fishing rights.
And also the Spanish are not at all happy about the up and coming trip of Prince Edward and Sofie, the Count and Countess of Wessex, to the Rock in June.
There are those that believe Gibraltar is not a “disputed territory”. It is indisputably British, both by bilateral treaties (Utrecht, Seville, Versailles), all of which Spain has signed, as well as by exercise of the right to self-determination, recognised by the UN Charter (also signed by Spain).
The dispute itself stems from 1954, when Franco hijacked Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Gibraltar to precisely the same end.
On Saturday,the Spanish newspaper El Mundo featured a huge picture of the 27 royals, with the headline “The only absence was Cousin Sofia”.
The newspaper also went on to write that due to the close family ties, the Queens may well have been seated together at the banquet table.
It must have been a great blow to Queen Sofia, who was born into the Greek Royal family, and would have been able to spend time with the Duke of Edinburgh’s godfather, her brother King Constantine at the event which was to celebrate Queen Elizabeths’s Diamond Jubilee.
To have not been given permission to attend was cruel. Instead she had to remain loyal to King Juan Carlos and remain quietly by his side.
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