Hello again. I'll start with our entertainment last night. The Sax player was Julian Smith who took 3rd place in Britain's Got Talent the same year that Susan Boyle took second place. He was phenomenal. He plays the soprano sax like Kenny G. I didn't think I could be entertained for an hour by just a sax, but I was and he was wonderful.
Immediately after Julian's show, Gary Williams, the singer from the night before did a concert for an hour in the Centrum. We stood on the 7th floor looking down into the Centrum (on 4) because there were no seats anywhere to be had. I've included pictures from the Centrum for you in the shared photo file. After Gary's show we went on to the Schooner bar where we like to hang out because they have a great piano player. We stayed there for and hour or so before we decided to go to bed.
This morning we got up and had breakfast and then went on a tour of the British Territory, Gibraltar. We had a wine tasting of some local Spanish wines. The whites they served where horrible. They had been aged in wooden casks where scotch had been aged. The reds were more bearable. We had three whites and two reds. I left three glasses with wine in them.
After our wine tasting we went to Main Street for shopping. We walked up and down main st and just window shopped. They have all the traditional British shops there including Marks & Spencer.
Gibraltar has been under British rule since the mid 1700's. There are about 32k people living on and around the Rock. The space of 3 square miles. Some notable weddings that have taken place here include Sean Connery (twice) and John Lennon married Yoko Ono here.
The ship left port around 4:30pm local time (six hours ahead of you) headed for Alicante, Spain. So we are completely in the Mediterranean now. So I hope that means we will have calmer waters. The last four days its been a real pain.
Tonight's entertainment is a Comedian Juggler. Should be interesting. Also tonight they are celebrating the Jewel of the Seas fourteenth birthday. So that should be interesting.
Talk to you more tomorrow.
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