“Rest day”

Friday 03 August 2018

Today was a typical Price family rest day with lots of strolling (extreme walking)! We had a two day ticket for the rock and we really made the most of it! Headed up, up and up again in the morning and stopped at the Moorish castle first. It was interesting but small so it didn’t take long to see it all. Next we continued our walk upwards and went into the siege tunnels. We both loved these and the information about their creation and history was fascinating! It took us 45 minutes to walk to the end of the tunnels which slanted downwards with a warning for the unfit not to continue. We hadn’t realised that the tunnels were first excavated in the 1700s and the ways they were used in each of the world wars. We were on our own for almost the entire time until an obnoxious American family caught up to us at the far end. One of the boys was wearing thongs and went flat on his ass as he ran in front of us. I found this hilarious as he looked at us as if to say ‘aren’t you going to ask if I’m ok?’ I just gave him the deadpan teacher look! 

When we made it out of the tunnels we had our lunch and attempted to find the lower apes den. We were unsuccessful so headed down to town for a nap for me and a walk to tourist info, a sit by the pool and swim for mum. 

In the afternoon we went and got nut pastries and then headed up the other side of the rock to approach the apes den from a different direction. I was following google maps and we luckily encountered a nice local who gave us a lift part way up and showed us how to shimmy under the ‘do not enter’ gates. Very hot day again and humid but we made it up the hill and found the monkeys and a newly built suspension bridge. One of the monkeys was clearly fed up with the heat and was slumped with his head on a wall. This didn’t stop him taking an interest when I unzipped my bag for a drink, they know the zip sound! 

Headed back to town for much needed showers and dinner at the Clipper.