It has been nearly a week that I have been traveling around in Spain. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time while I was here even though most of the days we experienced heavy rainfall. The first day me and a few friends decided to go to Sevilla and experience the Spanish tradition of Bullfighting. It was the last fight of the season and had the best matadors (which are the men who have a bull running at them)... it was INSANE! There was a total of nine bulls who all ended up dying at the end of their rounds. I am not sure of my feelings regarding what I saw... but I do have to say it was a very culturally important night for the people of Spain and that made me feel privileged to be attending.
The second day September 24th me and my friends went to La Linea in order for me to scuba dive the next day. La Linea is the border town to Gibraltar and it was the closest city that we could get to because Gibraltar is owned by the British and they are not "getting along" enough to provide transportation to and from. The bus ride was about 3 hours long and once we arrived we walked around that town to see what it had to offer. It was an interesting place... On the 25th me and my dive buddy went scuba diving in the Strait of Gibraltar... It was an amazing opportunity. We saw many fish and wrecks. The wrecks we dove through were navy planes, boats and funny as it is.. there was a truck that was at the bottom. It was a good time. We were done around 2pm and decided to go back take a nap, eat some food and have a nice cold beer! Man scuba diving was such a workout because of the current that i woke up the next day with sore muscles... I mean... even my fingers hurt!!!!!!
This is where we dove
On the 26th we decided to pay for a tour which took us up the rock of Gibraltar. This rock has a lot of history behind it more specifically during WWII it was used as a way to shoot boats coming into the bay. It was amazing... we toured what was called "the great seige tunnels" Which were used for people to hid out and do surprise attacks on people also we toured caves. The one we specifically toured was used as a hospital for the soldiers and those who were injured in war. One of the best things about the Rock of Gibraltar was the monkeys! YES, there were wild monkeys running around on the rock! They would jump all around on the cars and even onto peoples shoulders! I just loved it!
This is so funny. Mr monkey can't figure you out. This makes me laugh
ReplyDeleteSpain sounded like a blast, bull fighting sounds interesting for the culture, never seen it in person, BUT you know me i probably would have cried for the bulls lol..love the pictures espeically with the monkey..miss you~!
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