Well, I didn’t think I’d be travelling anywhere this year, at least not anywhere that involved getting on a plane. And to be honest, Gibraltar was not top of my list. But it was for a friend’s birthday, it was going to be hot and sunny, it was only around 3 hours on a plane and there was no need to quarantine on return. But I was actually pleasantly surprised.

It was an early flight out of Heathrow, and we obviously had to have a 6am beer. The flight was actually quite busy but I slept for most of it.

When we arrived in Gibraltar we were planning on getting a taxi to our hotel – but there were none to be found and we couldn’t book an uber.

So after some discussion we decided to walk to the hotel. Not the best idea as it was a 40 min walk in 29 degrees sunshine, with suitcases and up a very steep hill! But we made it.

Our rooms weren’t ready when we checked in so we got changed and went to the hotel pool. The pool was lovely – salt water and quite cold.

After some time by the pool we went into town. It didn’t take very long to wander down the high street to Casemates square. This square  takes its name from the British-built Grand Casemates, a casemate and bombproof barracks at the northern end of the square completed in 1817. It has lots of restaurants and bars so we stopped off for a beer and some very sweet sangria.

After a couple of drinks we headed down to see the super yacht- Sunborn.

And as it was happy hour we stopped for a cocktail or two! The bar staff were pretty useless though as they didn’t really know what they were doing.

We had dinner in the Ocean Village – very tasty fish and chips!