Gibraltar

Charles’ Hole in t’Wall Closes

by Mark Simpson
January 21, 2016December 22, 2020

The finest little bar on the Seven Seas is closing. After forty years of entertaining the sailors of the Royal Navy, Charles’ Hole in t’Wall in Gibraltar is shuttering its doors, bringing an end to a very special chapter in British maritime and marytime history. This report from GBC gives… Read More »Charles’ Hole in t’Wall Closes

God Save The Sea Queen: Gibraltar’s Lovely Charlie

by Mark Simpson
August 9, 2013June 1, 2022

Gibraltar, otherwise known as ‘The Rock’, is the full stop to the sentence of Europe. It has been besieged no less than fourteen times. The Ancients thought it was a pillar holding up the end of the World. In the Middle Ages Jews fled here from the red-hot instruments of… Read More »God Save The Sea Queen: Gibraltar’s Lovely Charlie