Helen Gibbons
@helengibbons
Financial translator Dutch-English • PhD student – British identity since 2016 – University of Gibraltar • MA Cantab MML 🇪🇺🇬🇮🏳️⚧️
Start of removal of gate witnessed by Pedro Sánchez on the Spanish side and Gibraltar ministers on this side
RGP have set up a viewing area with prime minister Sánchez and foreign minister Albares due at noon
Crowd surging out of Gibraltar…. meeting another surging into Gibraltar
Crowds build at the Gibraltar border 20 minutes before it is thrown open, while dignitaries celebrate on the airport terrace
Embraer carrying Gibraltar’s chief minister Fabian Picardo to attend the signing of the UK/EU treaty in Brussels. Due back at 19:40.
In the far west of Spain, it’s Portuguese free-to-air TV that does the job
First dip of the year in the – now saline – pools at Ocean Village. Better for users and maintenance
The Gibraltar border evolves: canopies gone, border staff still on duty, but few if any document checks
This Blue Whiting fried up very well for supper. Having abolished all its wet fish counters, Mercadona needs to convince on its new approach. This is a start: sustainable, well priced and, above all, totally fresh
I was sad to note that Iceland has resumed whaling www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... A book I picked up in Reykjavík earlier this week recounts events in the 17th century, where such exploitation surely belongs
Denmark logically still prominent in Iceland, despite independence in 1944
Despite its name, this little corner of Reykjavík looks slightly more Valencian than Catalan…
Start of the Better Finance / Icelandic Savers Association conference on Protecting Purchasing Power: Taxation and Investments in EU Capital Markets, at the Harpa Centre, Reykjavík