Gibraltar

I know it's only Thursday, but somehow i feel in the shape to post some cards so why not use it wisely :)

Few days ago I got this amazing card from Gibraltar from dear Rafal! It may not be my first Gibraltar card but it surely is my first one with Gibraltar stamps :D
Ok, I admit I sort of hijacked a place in Rafal's RR but how can one possibly resist a card from Gibraltar...sorry Rafal :)
And what I love about this one is that it is totally different than the rest of my Gibraltar cards showing the famous rock, but here you have an aerial view which gives you a better idea of how Gibraltar actually looks like. Has some odd distribution of the habitats....for my perception. I wonder if people often get bored here...

here are the two stamps Rafal used....and at first glance they seem as if they are not cancelled, but if you take a better look at the left one, you will see some traces of the cancellation. That stamp was issued in 2009 in a set of 6 stamps commemoration 100 years of Naval aviation, while the other one is a definitive from a set of 13 issued in 2004.

Thank you so much again Rafal!

Gibraltar (03)

Here is my third, and as of now, last card from Gibraltar..

Somewhat different from the previous two, coz this one doesnt show a view on the famous Rock, but it shows a view, FROM The Rock...so, this is how the town and the Harbour look like from the upper Rock.

Gibraltar (02)

Here is my second Gibraltar card...i have another one left (for now)....

Whenever i look at The Rock, i get some weird feeling in my stomach.....Monica (the sender of the card) says that the view from the top of the rock is simply amazing and that from its most southern point (where the lighthouse is) you can see Africa on most days!!!!
Now THATS a feeling...i mean, for some reason, i always get some nostalgic feelings when from one place i can see another state or maybe not the land itself, but at night, the lights glimmering in the distance, telling you that someone lives across the lake/sea....i dont know why, but it creates a really weird feeling inside me...and i ALWAYS end up spending hours of creating stories in my head about the people who live there and how their cities/streets/houses actually look like...and if they are similar compared to ours....and ive been thinking...if thats the feeling  i get when i have another state across...how the hell would i feel if i was at a place from where i can actually see a totally different continet!!! Just sooo amazing!!

Oh, Monica as well says that the monkeys (you can see them on the bottom left picture) live on the top of The Rock and can be very nasty...

Gibraltar

And a new spot on the list of countries/territories covered....number 73 goes to Gibraltar!



And now I actually have 3 Gibraltar cards, but ill show them off one at a time....as usual :)
Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar.
The territory shares a border with Spain to the north.
The name of the territory is derived from the Arabic Jabal Tāriq meaning "mountain of Tariq" which refers to the geological formation The Rock of Gibraltar (you cant see the Rock here, but you will in one of the following cards).