TILTING AT WINDMILLS: THE MILE HIGH CLUB

Monday, April 20, 2009

THE MILE HIGH CLUB

I tell a lie! The Rock of Gibraltar is actually 426 metres or 1,396 feet high but if you’ve ever stood at the top you certainly feel a mile above sea level. Call my exaggeration a white lie – or in more modern parlance, a British cabinet minister’s version of the truth.

The reason I am reaching such heights on a Monday morning is because last week the newly refurbished Mons Calpe Suite, located at the Cable Car Top Station complex, hosted its first civil marriage.

Now if you are contemplating a civil wedding it is hard to envisage a more stunning location than the top of the Rock. Over the last year or so Gibraltar has been amending its laws on getting married on or at the top of the Rock to make it a very attractive venue for weddings.

Gibraltar’s Registry Office has always been a popular location with John and Yoko and Sean Connery amongst the famous names who have tied the knot there. However now you can also arrange a ceremony at the top of the Rock but if you don’t have a head for heights there are other stunning locations such as the leading hotels, the Dell at the Botanical Gardens, the Mount and the Garrison Library.

Curiously, although you can arrange to be married at an outside location seven days a week the Registry Office works on a Monday to Friday basis to strictly set hours.

So if you are contemplating a civil wedding and want a day truly to remember Gibraltar could well be the answer. To find our more let me point you to the website: http://www.wedgibraltar.com/ – which is packed with useful advice and information.

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS

Sancho Panza is much less learned but a good deal saner than his master.

"At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that are on that plain.

"Fortune," said Don Quixote to his squire, as soon as he had seen them, "is arranging matters for us better than we could have hoped. Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth."

"What giants?" said Sancho Panza.

"Those you see there," answered his master, "with the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long."

"Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the vanes that turned by the wind make the millstone go."

"It is easy to see," replied Don Quixote, "that you are not used to this business of adventures. Those are giants, and if you are afraid, away with you out of here and betake yourself to prayer, while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat."”