Parish news maybe, but a major explosion where TheEye lives on the North Mole in Gibraltar. That’s the cruise liner Independence Of The Seas in the background. She has moved to the eastern side of the Rock now. (Luckily Dioclese is cruising the other end of the Med) As we have […]

It’s here again…the regular Gibraltar meet-up for bloggers TheEye and St.Crispin. Efforts to get the other AllSeeingEye contributors Max and David Vance here are ongoing – hopefully next time, guys? Regulars here will have noticed the recent silence from co-blogger and all-round good egg St.Crispin. A while ago he received […]

TheEye has threatened promised a very occasional series of old pictures from my home of Gibraltar. The first showed searchlights over the Rock in 1940, and here’s the next installment from the archives. Inspired by Subrosa’s very successful first LiveChat which saw the SNP sweep to power in Scotland on […]

For non-Spanish speakers, ¿qué pasa? is roughly “how’s it going?” or “what’s up?”. Which about sums up where this post is headed. Always-interesting commenter ‘thespecialone‘ left a reply on the previous thread about visits to the Rock in years gone past which got TheEye a’thinkin’. There are thousands of photographs of everywhere that […]

Considering the depleted state of the Armed Forces these days, Gibraltar is currently the busiest we’ve been for ages hosting Royal Navy ships. In fact this year has seen more naval activity so far than in the whole of 2010. The US nuclear submarine Florida (pictured right against the South […]

Haven’t seen much in the UK press about the buildup of British forces in the seas around Libya…except for HMS Cumberland and the obvious jibes about her imminent scrapping. However locally there are signs of more activity than that. Yesterday and for the third time within the space of a […]

With apologies, but blogging here has been light this week as it’s the AllSeeingEye blogmeet. As has been traditional for half a decade now, this blogmeet happens on the bi-annual PWOC and/or SPAG courses in Gibraltar (Principal Warfare Officer Course / Submarine Parachute Assistance Group). This usually starts with AllSeeingEye […]

That magnificent bi-annual event is almost upon us again…the AllSeeingEye blog run ashore in Gib. Next week my co-author here St Crispin will be out on the Rock. Some random throwing himself out of a Hercules will be involved during the daytime, but in the evenings the bars and beerhalls […]

During the course of a major ongoing Gibraltar court case about the age of consent laws, a fascinating factoid has turned up which deserves to be shared with a smaller audience. In Gibraltar, it is actually illegal for a man to have sex with a woman if he knows she […]

Today there was a vulture at the end of TheEye’s road. Well well well. No explanation, no reason…it was just there. Cheers to JG for the photograph.