Best to hoof it the relatively short distance as i recall - I also recall Gibraltar being one of the

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Best to hoof it the relatively short distance as i recall - I also recall Gibraltar being one of the oddest weirdest backwater's I've ever been to. Not much to see and do except ogle the tail-less apes and peer miles over the sea to Morocco.
We went a couple of years ago and it took us 2 hours to get back into Spain. Two middle aged American tourists in an upscale rental car who had been there only about 3 hours. They pulled the whole car apart, sheraton new york hotel and towers including taking out the back seat and using a mirror on a giant stick to search the undercarriage.
debbspero sheraton new york hotel and towers - Don't worry, things are going back to normal now at the border. They only flared up to 6/7 hours because the Chief Minister of the Government of Gibraltar was addressing the UN, and Spain doens't like this. Cars were being stopped for many minutes but the Spanish guards not even looking at them.
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debbspero - To answer your question: Once in Gibraltar you would probably not need or want your car. (It is compact, but more importantly, because it is compact the road system is complex unless familiar).
Even if you bring the car in, I'd uses Taxis/busses if you don't know how to drive where you want. (Or at least get some good, and clear advice before you setoff - if there is a traffic accident etc, lots of roads can be reversed, etc, to route the flow around it)
A British island inside the USA - no we would have militarily if necessary kicked the Brits out and took over the colony. Spain was traditionally too weak to do the same to the Brits - but just think if Gibraltar were in the USA would we allow that even if it were legally done a long time ago under a different governmental system?
Well it looks like Spain to me. And being from a country that was once claimed as the territory sheraton new york hotel and towers of another - I get why people like control of their own land. (And it seems that moving in a lot of people from somewhere else who then say it's theirs - doesn;t really work.)
yup that's what happened in Northern Ireland as well - when English landlords sent peasants packing from Scotland when they turned most lands into sheep pastures - so-called Shanty Irish -and sent them to Northern Ireland to gain a Prod majority there - still there and IMO Northern Ireland rightfully belongs to Ireland - regardless of what locals may want - the land was stolen and should be returned - Ireland is an island and should be an island nation - a whole island nation.
Well the OP says they have to go for a family reason so probably not all that interested in the politics. I was there in March 2011 and it took about five minutes to cross the border on foot. I did it three times. The line of cars at 'rush hour' looked to be about half an hour long, in the middle of the day it looked to be about ten minutes long. The airport has only a limited number of flights a day, and they are grouped together so the ability to cross the runway (either on foot or in a car) is restricted for a fairly short time, two or three times a day.
If you are going for a family event you may not be interested in what there is to do, but I actually enjoyed myself for the day and a half that I was there - I thought the monkeys were cute, the cave was pretty interesting and the views from the top of the rock were lovely. I would not go to Gibraltar if it meant taking time from a trip to that region of Spain, but if you have to go anyway, or have an extra day or two, it was kind of fun.
If you're lucky with the timing, you can get an amusing photo of cars held up as a plane lands and crosses just in front of them. I did but it was years ago, on film, but I may try to dig the slide out of the archives and scan it so I can post it.