In Spring of 2004 I travelled to Gibraltar for a visa run, while living in Portugal on a non-EU passport.

Before crossing the border into Gibraltar from Linea de La Concepcion in southern Spain, I met this pretty cool Gibraltarian (or whatever people from there call themselves). He spoke English with a British accent, and Spanish with a Gibraltar accent. While walking through the grafitti-infested towns that border "The Rock," he gave me a running commentary on how rough an area it used to be, but since the Madrid Atocha ... (more)