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Article: Fish, chips and apes: Gibraltar completes a pint-size collection
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- April 10, 1988
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There's a new knickknack on my collector's shelf of European
travel miniatures. It's Gibraltar, a formerly embattled speck of
British territory where the greasy aroma of fish and chips perfumes
the air along Main Street, and bands of apes that aren't really apes
roam the famous rock cadging handouts from tourists.
I detoured to Gibraltar for an afternoon during a recent stay on
Spain's Costa del Sol, from which the 2.3-square-mile peninsula
dangles like an earlobe near the entrance to the Mediterranean.
Since Spain fully reopened the border in 1985 after a long dispute
over British sovereignty, it's easy to visit this ancient Pillar of
Hercules by rental car (as I did) or tour bus.
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