There are two pieces of paper every EU citizen ends up chasing here, and almost everyone confuses them. One is a number. The other is proof that you are allowed to stay. You need both, you get them in different ways, and the system that hands them out runs on the speed of mañana. Here…
Every working morning, thousands of people walk or drive across one of the busiest land borders in Europe, clock in on a two-and-a-half square mile peninsula, and come home at night to a Spanish town that costs half as much to live in. If you work on the Rock, La Línea is the obvious place…
The single best piece of advice for visiting Gibraltar is one nobody at the border will tell you: do not drive in. Leave the car on the Spanish side, in La Línea, and walk across. You will save yourself a queue that can swallow an hour of your day, and you will park for a…
The first thing I learned about living in La Línea is that everything here runs on talking. Not on speed, not on efficiency, on talking. I call it the priority of talking, and once you see it you stop being annoyed by it. Here is what that looks like in a shop, in a queue…
The first time I heard Llanito I thought I had stopped paying attention: a sentence started in English, finished in Spanish, and the two people talking did not seem to notice the join. That was on one of my first trips into Gibraltar, soon after I moved to La Línea in 2021. If you live…
Entain has opened a consultation that could remove around four hundred customer-care jobs across eleven countries, Gibraltar among them, and the tax being blamed for it is not a Gibraltar tax at all. What is already being searched for as the Entain Gibraltar redundancies has no Gibraltar number attached to it. Below is what has…
Applying for or renewing a Gibraltar passport still means a paper form, original documents and up to three visits to the passport office, but the Government of Gibraltar says passport applications move online in November 2026, “subject to final confirmation”. For Gibraltarians who live in Gibraltar it takes a trip to the counter out of…
The Tower of Homage at Gibraltar’s Moorish Castle opens to the public on Monday 14 September 2026, restored by Fortress Attractions with the Gibraltar National Museum, as the first of three sites in the government’s Three Empires heritage plan. Two things most write-ups this week will leave out: the castle sits inside the paid Nature…
Thursday 10 September 2026. The programme, the Mass shuttle the night before, the road closures and relocated bus terminus, and when the frontier is worst.
A customs reassessment for goods already in transit when the rules changed. It is not a refund for cross-frontier shopping.
A month after the fence came down, an honest resident’s read of what actually changed at the frontier.
Flutter is closing up to 100 Paddy Power shops with 400 jobs at risk. None of them are in Gibraltar, and the company will not say whether cuts here are being considered. The number that does matter for cross-frontier workers is a different one.
Dates, ticket prices, where to buy, the 2026 line-up, and the walk from the La Línea frontier to the venues.
