We arrived at Gibraltar around 9 this morning. Tracy took the boys ashore and walked into the town to get the cable car to the top of the rock. The 20 minute walk through busy streets would have been too difficult for me and I wouldn't have been able to get on the cable car anyway, so I stayed on the ship. The boys returned around 3 and decamped to the pool. They had enjoyed their trip and had encountered the famous Gibraltar apes. They'd had no problem sniffing out the Fruit Loops in Jake's bag and had promptly nicked them.
Our departure from Gibraltar was rather more speedy than planned after the oil depot a few yards from the ship exploded. I had been sitting on deck 12 with Tracy and Daniel when we heard a loud roar
like a jet engine. As we looked overboard, the roof section was being hurled into the air on top of a ball of flames. I couldn't actually see what it was but another passenger was saying the adjacent tanks might also go. It was a bit surreal, I have to admit it was quite worrying because it was within just a few yards of the ship and we didn't know if the ship had been damaged or covered in burning fuel. Also Jake and Luke weren't with us. After various instructions from the ship's bridge directing passengers to get inside, the ship set sail (within an apparently impressive 4 minutes of the incident )
Tracy had already gone to round up the boys and 10 minutes later we were all back on Deck 12 watching Gibraltar under a plume of smoke as we sailed away.
In the evening we went to see hypnotist show where 10 of the passengers were humiliated for our entertainment!
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