The Gibraltar Magazine February 2018

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NEWS

18 AROUND TOWN 20 HELLO THERE: MOST AWKWARD DATE

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BUSINESS 23 WHAT THE HYPE 26 THE NIGHT ECONOMY 30 DLT: LEARNING THE LINGO

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34 FOR THE LOVE OF BUSINESS 36 HOME OR AWAY: WHERE TO INSURE?

LIFE 40

A WOMEN'S WORK: MONICA COUMBE

44 KELLY-ANNE BORGE: KELLY FROM THE TELLY 47 DARTMOOR: WW2 PLANE CRASH 50 ON MY RETIREMENT: EMILIO ACRIS 52 LOST WORLD: OUR HERITAGE IN PRINT 56 MARINE PARASITES: THE RHIZOCEPHALAN

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59 GIBTALKS 64 LOVE AND THE WORLD IN FICTION 66 STRAIT LOVE: THE LAST FANDANGO 68 ZIPP BY UNIFY

LEISURE

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70 EXPLORING ESTONIA: CASTLES, CUISINE AND CHOCOLATE 76 JUMPSUITS; JUMPING ON THE TREND 80 BINKY'S KITCHEN: LOVE OF FOOD, AND EACH OTHER 82 VILLAINS AND WINES: FAR EAST FAKES

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84 RECIPES: POMME D'AMOUR AND ROCKY ROAD

A WOMAN’S WORK MONICA COUMBE

NIGHT ECONOMY OPEN 24 HOURS

86 GUIDES AND INFORMATION LOST WORLD 94 OLYMPIAN GODS: HERITAGE SECRETS WHEN IN ROME

FOR THE LOVE OF BUSINESS

GIBTALKS 2018 THIS YEAR’S VOICES

97 SCHEDULES EXPLORING ESTONIA 98 COFFEE TIME A BALTIC GEM BACK COVER: #GIBSGEMS

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FEBRUARY ISSUE EDITOR’S NOTE

EDITOR: Sophie Clifton-Tucker editor@thegibraltarmagazine.com DESIGN: Lina Sproge design@thegibraltarmagazine.com SALES: Luis Jimenez sales@thegibraltarmagazine.com

If you’re anything like me (and I hope for your sake you’re not), there has been many a Valentine’s morning spent sobbing into a bowl of cornflakes. There is this illusion that the morning of the 14th should be spent swapping Hallmark cards (other brands are available), boxes of chocolates (a good way to get rid of the remaining Christmas stash), and gifts that come with an inflated price tag because the cashier wrapped it in paper with hearts on it.

ROSES ARE RED, AND IF VIOLETS ARE BLUE, THAT’S BECAUSE ANTHOCYANIDINS CAN VARY IN HUE

DISTRIBUTION: Jordan Brett jordan@thegibraltarmagazine.com ACCOUNTS: Paul Cox paul@thegibraltarmagazine.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:

Whatever your stance on this most amorous of days, it can be used as an opportunity to celebrate relationships with your loved ones. In Estonia for example, Valentine’s Day is overthrown in place of Sobrapaev, or ‘Friendship Day’. Whether you’re single or spoken for, this month Kati convinces us to travel to Estonia - the Baltic beauty you’re bound to fall in love with (p. 70).

Graeme Fulton,

From the idyllic interaction between Kelly from the telly and her husband (p. 44), to the tumultuous love between Peter and Marco - the flamenco dancer less than half his age - in Hellaby’s newest novel (p. 66), we have all bases of the heart covered in this February issue. We also eschewed tradition and asked you to reveal your most awkward dating disasters, and boy did you deliver (p. 20). You are not alone; one year I was gifted a goat. For Ahmed. In Ethiopia. (Hi Ahmed! Hope Gary is doing well.)

Reg Reynolds,

“All is fair in love and war”, but what about business? Owner of Supernatural and entrepreneur extraordinaire, Dan, reveals the highs and the heartache behind start-ups (p. 34).

Should you take the plunge? Speaking of love and business, we introduce Binky and her kitchen, complete with husband Nikos (p. 80). Just like pear jam with cheddar, this cooking couple fuse together in perfect union over a spread of galaktoboureko and baklava.

This month we introduce our brand new series ‘A Woman’s Work’, shining a well-deserved spotlight on some of the inspirational women of Gibraltar. To kick us off, Molly interviews wedding planner Monica Coumbe (p. 40).

I hope this month brings you love in its multitude of forms, and whatever your heart most desires. Even if that is a goat called Gary.

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8 News 18 Around Town 20 Hello There: Most awkward date

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BUSINESS

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30 DLT: Learning the lingo

22 What the Hype: The advent of AI 26 The Night Economy: Open 24 hours 34 For The Love of Business: Start-up success 36 Home or Away: Where to insure?

LIFE 40 A Women's Work: Monica Coumbe 44 Kelly-Anne Borge: Kelly from the telly 47 Dartmoor: WW2 plane crash 50 On My Retirement: Emilio Acris 52 Lost World: Our heritage in print 56 Marine Parasites: The Rhizocephalan

SCENE 59 GibTalks: Some of this year's speakers

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64 Love and the World in Fiction: Soundtrack for the heart 66 Strait Love: The Last Fandango 68 Zipp: Unifying the nation

LEISURE 70 Exploring Estonia: Castles, cuisine and chocolate

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76 Jumpsuits; Jumping on the trend 80 Binky's Kitchen: Love of food, and each other 82 Villains and Wines: Far East Fakes

REGULARS

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84 Recipes: Pomme D'amour and Rocky Road

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86 Guides and Information 94 Olympian Gods: When in Rome 97 Schedules 98 Coffee Time Back Cover: #GibsGems

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CULTURAL PROGRAMME FEBRUARY 2018 Wednesday 31st January to Saturday 17th February “Rock Fashion Rocks!” - Retrospective Exhibition on Fashion Design in Gibraltar Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery, Casemates Square Mon–Fri 10:30-18:30 Sat 10:30–13:30 Planned by the Gibraltar Cultural Services on behalf of the Ministry of Culture. FREE ENTRY Saturday 10th February GibTalks 2018 John Mackintosh Hall 10am – 5pm For further information please contact the Events Department on 20067236 or email: info@culture.gi.

Wednesday 14th to Saturday 17th February Gibraltar International Dance Festival 2018 John Mackintosh Hall 7pm 16th edition of the Gibraltar International Dance Festival.

Organised by M.O. Productions.

Wednesday 21st February The Art Society Talks O’Callaghan Elliot Hotel, Governor's Parade registration and welcome drink at 6:30pm the talk starts at 7:30pm sharp Tom Duncan: Romans Moors and Christians: Andalucía and its Golden Age Wednesday 21st to Saturday 24th February Young Musicians Festival 2018 John Mackintosh Hall Monday 26th February to Friday 9th March Young Art Competition 2018 John Mackintosh Hall 9am – 6pm

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news Ages 7 to 12 years. For further information contact 54018012 Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th February 16th Gibraltar International Dance Festival J ohn Mackintosh Hall Theatre, 7pm

Every Monday to Friday as from 12th February

CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME – YOUTH ARTS JAMBOREE

3.45pm to 5.15pm Arts and Crafts Workshops

by Teresa Moore Ages 4 to 8 years.

For further information contact 54006059 Every Tuesday as from 13th February, 3.45pm to 5.15pm

Gibraltar Cultural Services, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Youth, has launched the Youth Arts Jamboree, a cultural development programme dedicated to young people aged between 4 and 24 years old.

The Jamboree will be held from the 12th February to the 10th March 2018. Activities will include the reintroduction of school visits to the historic City Hall, led by Her Worship the Mayor Kaiane Aldorino Lopez, and a poetry jam led by Tanya Santini and Jonathan Teuma. Other events will include the established art, dance and music competitions as well as the World Book Day celebrations.

‘It is imperative that we invest in our youth so that we can have more young people in cultural activities and that as a community, we can celebrate young people’s artistic and cultural achievements.

For any enquiry please contact Gibraltar Cultural Services, Events Department, on telephone 20067236 or email: info@culture.gi

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Arts and Crafts Workshops

by Kate Davies Ages 7 to 12 years.

For further information contact 54018012 Every Tuesday as from 13th February, 4pm to 6pm Gorham’s Cave - Learn about the World Heritage Site and life during the Palaeolithic period.

By appointment only. Bookings and for further information contact Paulette at the Gibraltar Museum on 20074289 or email: education@gibmuseum.gi Every Wednesday as from 14th February, 4pm to 5.30pm Arts and Crafts Workshops

by Michelle Stagnetto Ages 7 to 12 years. For further information contact 54013125 Every Thursday as from 15th February, 3.45pm to 5.15pm Arts and Crafts Workshops

by Kate Davies

Tickets on sale as from Friday 2nd February 2018 at On Pointe Dance Shop in Casemates Square, £8 and £10.

For further information please email: mopro@gibtelecom.net Every Saturday as from 17th February, 4pm to 6pm Responsible Caving - Geology, History, Heritage, Wildlife, Abseiling and Cave Rescues.

Ages 16+. By appointment only. For further information contact Paulette at the Gibraltar Museum on 20074289 or email: education@gibmuseum.gi Tuesday 20th to Saturday 24th February, J ohn Mackintosh Hall Theatre, 7pm 13th Gibraltar Festival for Young Musicians Tickets can be purchased at the entrance for £5. Tickets priced at £12 for the Gala Night will be on sale a week prior to the event. For further information email info@gampa.gi Monday 26th February Educational Visit to Witham’s Cemetery 5pm to 6.30pm For further information please telephone 20042844 or email heritage@gibraltar.gi Young Artists Exhibition John Mackintosh Hall Galleries, 6.30pm Official opening & prize giving.

Invitation only Tuesday 27th February to Friday 9th March, Young Artists Exhibition J ohn Mackintosh Hall Galleries, 9am to 9.30pm, Entrance Free 9

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GIBTALKS 2018 Gibraltar Cultural Services, working alongside teacher and playwright Julian Felice, will be holding a conference event on Saturday 10th February 2018 at the John Mackintosh Hall. Based on the successful TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) series of talks (www.ted.com), Gib Talks will see a range of local speakers deliver fifteen-minute talks on a broad spectrum of subjects with the aim of focusing on the anecdotal, the personal and the light-hearted as opposed to heavy-going academics and agendas. The speakers will represent a cross-section of the community and will help to make up a rich and varied programme.

In addition to the invited guest speakers, four ten-minute slots will also be made available to members of the general public who would like the opportunity to speak to an audience about an issue close to their hearts.

Tickets for the event will be on sale as from Monday 8th January at the John Mackintosh Hall, priced at £5. Ticketholders will be able to drop in and out of the event as they please during the course of the day, with refreshments and live music provided in the premises.

For the full schedule, visit thegibraltarmagazine.com/gibtalks18/. For further information please contacts GCS on 20067236 or via email: info@culture.gi

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COMPETITION TIME!

and a trophy. Additionally, each category will receive a £50 voucher and a pen kindly donated by the Gibraltar Chronicle, plus a Trophy from the Ministry of Culture.

Gibraltar Cultural Services will hold a Short Story Competition and a Logo Competition as part of this year’s Gibraltar Spring Festival 2018.

SHORT STORY COMPETITION Open to both Gibraltarians and residents of Gibraltar who may submit one piece of work, in any subject.

There will be four categories as follows: A. School Years 4 to 5 250 - 350 words

Entry forms and full conditions are available from: Schools and the College, The Department of Education (23 Queensway), Gibraltar Cultural Services (308 Main Street), www.culture.gi Works may be handed in at the Gibraltar Cultural Services, John Mackintosh Hall, 308 Main Street between 9.30am and 7.30pm, Monday to Friday.

The closing date for receipt of entries is Monday 19th March 2018.

B. School Year 6 to 7 250 - 350 words

LOGO COMPETITION

C. School Years 8 to 11 450 - 550 words

Open to all ages. Entrants may submit up to two original works.

Entries must be submitted in an A4 size on paper or card, indicating whether the orientation is ‘portrait’ or ‘landscape’.

D. School Years 12 to 13 500 - 1000 words E. Adults Must not exceed 1000 words The winning entries will be printed in the Gibraltar Chronicle. The overall winner will receive the Ministry of Culture prize of £300

Logos should be simple in design and suitable for printing on posters, flyers, tickets or other promotional material and must

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contain the wording: ‘GIBRALTAR SPRING FESTIVAL 2018’ The prize for the winning entry is £300.

Entry forms and full conditions are available from The Gibraltar Cultural Services, John Mackintosh Hall, 308 Main Street where works may be handed in between 9.30am to 7.30pm, Monday to Friday.

The closing date for receipt of entries is Tuesday 13th March 2018.

For any enquiries please contact the Events Department, Gibraltar Cultural Services, 308 Main Street, Gibraltar, Tel: 200 67236 or e-mail: info@culture.gi

DATES ANNOUNCED FOR MTV PRESENTS: GIBRALTAR CALLING 2018 The 2018 MTV Presents: Gibraltar Calling music festival will take place on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd September at the Victoria Stadium. This year’s event will be later in the month than in previous years, due to Gibraltar’s commitments to host FIFA matches at the Victoria Stadium.

Doors will open at 3pm on both Friday and Saturday afternoons. The new format allows attendees, event staff and volunteers to rest on the Sunday before returning to their normal work schedules on Monday.

Early bird tickets will go on sale from Thursday 11th January 2018 at gibraltarcalling.com. Early bird ticket prices are: 2 Day General Admission = £89 1 Day General Admission = £75 2 Day VIP = £359 1 Day VIP = £320 As in previous years, tickets for children aged 12 and under (on 22nd September 2018) will be available free of charge when the child is accompanied by a tick-

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et-holding adult. Further information on children’s tickets will be available in due course. Festivalgoers are encouraged to sign up to the Gibraltar Calling newsletter for the most up-to-date information and further announcements.

The festival’s producers will make the first artist announcements in the coming months and these will include chart-topping artists for the Main Stage alongside heritage acts on the Classic Stage. Once again, MTV Presents: Gibraltar Calling will see some of Gibraltar’s best musical talent share a stage with global superstars.

The Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo, said: “I am delighted that Gibraltar will continue its partnership with MTV as its main media partner, benefiting from the strength of MTV’s marketing and media support whilst still allowing us to announce artists that appeal to all ages and tastes.”

The Minister of Culture, the Hon Steven Linares, said: “The Gibraltar Calling music festival was a huge success in 2017 and I expect 2018 to be even more incredible.

We are working hard with MTV to bring you the best musical talent from today and years passed; brace yourselves for a fantastic event!”

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news BRITISH AIRWAYS ANNOUNCES NEW LONDON GATWICK – GIBRALTAR SERVICE HM Government of Gibraltar welcomes the announcement by British Airways of the launch of a new seasonal route from London Gatwick to Gibraltar. This will commence on Monday 28th May, in time for the peak summer season.

The route will operate 6 times weekly, daily except Tuesday, and will run until Saturday 29th September. Over 2,000 additional return seats will be offered per week, with a total of 37,000 seats for the period of operation. This is in addition to the 11 weekly flights from Heathrow during the summer.

Minister for Tourism and Commercial Aviation, the Hon Gilbert Licudi, said: “This is fantastic news for Gibraltar, with much needed capacity left behind

by Monarch Airlines being filled up

by British Airways. London Gatwick is Gibraltar’s busiest route and these additional weekly services highlight the demand on this route, and will complement the British Airways existing London Heathrow services. This shows British Airways confidence in the Gibraltar market. In addition, with easyJet increasing capacity by upgrading to larger aircraft and the charter services from various UK regional departure points in the UK being offered by Super Break, this will undoubtedly boost the tourism industry as well as providing further vital links to major UK airports to all business and leisure travellers”.

STTPP – SHORT-STAY PARKING BAYS FOR ALAMEDA ESTATE As part of Zone 1 Residential Parking Scheme, 2 short stay drop off / loading and unloading bays will be established on Red Sands Road directly outside both Red Sands House and Alameda House. These bays, located centrally within the Alameda Housing Estate, will cater for those in need of gaining access to their homes with shopping and heavy items, for helpers, friends and family who do not reside within the Scheme boundaries wishing to assist persons getting to their homes or for the delivery of essentials, such as food. These bays will also provide small businesses with very short-term parking for deliveries of groceries and other heavy goods.

As from Monday 15th January 2018, the short-stay bays will have a maximum parking time of 30 minutes and will be operational between the hours of 8am and 7pm daily, outside of which they will revert

to regular parking for Residents’ Permit holders only.

Longer-term Pay & Display parking facilities are available at Grand Parade and on Rosia Road for non-residents and those without a Residents’ Permit for the area.

The Minister for Infrastructure and Planning, the Hon Paul Balban, said, “I am greatly encouraged that the Residential Parking Scheme for Zone 1 has now settled well among the residents of the area and seems to be working as expected. The Scheme has greatly improved the parking provision for residents of the area. These new tweaks will now help improve facilities for those requiring very short-term parking facilities to assist or access persons in need or to deliver groceries or other items to them.”

The new British Airways London Gatwick flights are now available to book on www.ba.com

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news THE GEDIME MOTORS TROPHY The Med Golf Gedime Motors Trophy tournament got off to a cool but sunny start at Almenara on Sunday 21 January 2018. Fanned by a brisk north-westerly wind, the event was played over the Alcornoques and Lagos courses. The golf format was individual Stableford. The best result, and 6 points ahead of the rest of the field, was by winner of the Gedime Motors Trophy Dan Lomax, with a very fine score of 36 points.

The best gross prize went to Matthew Bruce-Smith with a score of 84. Matthew also won his category prize. The best gross score on the par 3 holes was Chris Warren with a score of level par. The best senior prize was won by Ian Collinson with a score of 28 points. Ian was also first in his category. The longest drive was won

by Duncan Hamilton. The best team prize went to Matthew Warner and Graeme Powie with a combined score of 59 points.

Handicap Category Prizes: Category 1 (handicaps 0 to 12): Matthew Bruce-Smith was the winner with 29 points. Matthew Charlesworth was the runner up, beating Peter Grüetter on handicap, with a score of 27 points.

Category 2 (handicaps 13 to 22): The winner was Chris Delaney with a score 30 points. The runner up was Matthew Warner with a score of 29 points.

Category 3 (handicap 23 and above): Ian Collinson was the winner with 28 points and the runner up was Jonathan Bowden, beating Tommy Pearson on handicap, with 26 points.

Nearest the pin winners were: Kevin Jones, Douglas Casciaro, Javi Hunter and Chris Warren. David Varges was nearest the pin in 2 on a par 4 and Jorden Brown was nearest the pin in 3 on a par 5.

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STTPP – LAUNCH OF RESIDENTIAL PARKING SCHEMES – ZONE 2 As part of the implementation of recommendations contained within the Sustainable, Traffic, Transport and Parking Plan, HMGoG is pleased to announce the next Residential Parking Scheme (RPS) known as Zone 2 within the Town Centre, following the successful launch of Zone 1 in July 2017.

The implementation of designated residential parking zones aims to provide residents of the area with an improved chance of parking whilst still supporting the needs of visitors and commercial activity in those areas.

The Residential Parking Schemes will also indirectly tackle the issue of derelict vehicles on the public highway in view of scheduled, regular street cleaning campaigns and will result in better management of existing on-street parking stock.

The cost structure of the permits will be as follows: •F irst permit per household £ 5.00 per calendar month •S econd permit per household £10.00 per calendar month • Third permit per household £20.00 per calendar month Motorcycles and mopeds will not be required to obtain a Resident’s Parking Permit but will only be able to park in designated motorcycle parking bays within the defined zone.

The information booklet and application forms are also available for download on the HMGoG website on: https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/new/

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GIBRALTAR AT FITUR The Gibraltar Tourist Board (GTB) participated in FITUR, the international tourism trade fair, last month, celebrating its 38th staging in Madrid, Spain.

FITUR is a global meeting point for tourism professionals. In 2017 9,893 exhibiting companies from 165 countries/regions, 135,858 trade participants, 107,213 consumers and 7,452 journalists took part.

Co-exhibiting with the GTB was the Bland Group International.

The stand and theme continued that launched at the WTM and in Gibraltar in November, concentrating on the Year of Culture campaign. The campaign was presented to the members of the Spanish tourism trade press from Madrid at the Gibraltar stand so that the Spanish market is aware of this campaign.

Minister for Tourism, the Hon Gilbert Licudi QC stated: “FITUR is an important global event and although we have chosen not to participate for a few years due to changing trends within the industry, I’m pleased that we are making a return and in particular to present the Year of Culture campaign launched here and in London in November of last year. Many of our visitors come on day trips from Spain and FITUR gives us an opportunity of meeting and engaging with tour operators and other professionals in the tourist industry in order to continue to promote Gibraltar as a destination for their clients.

DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER DISCUSSES EUROPE AND BREXIT WITH LOCAL STUDENTS The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia has said that the inclusion of Clause 24 in their negotiating guidelines by the European Council was a shameful betrayal of the 96% of Gibraltar that voted to remain in the European Union. Dr Garcia made these comments in an address to students attending Bayside and Westside Schools and the College of Further Education.

The address followed a presentation delivered by the group of students who visited the EU institutions last autumn in a trip which was organised by the Gibraltar in Europe Group. They are the fourth group to have gone so far and were clearly impressed by what they saw and the people that they had an opportunity to engage with. Dr Garcia praised the group saying that the feedback from Brussels was that they had asked probing questions in different meetings and had proved to be excellent ambassadors for Gibraltar.

The Deputy Chief Minister explained the value that the Government attached, when first elected in 2011, to taking Gibraltar’s case to the EU and bringing Europe to Gibraltar. In line with that policy, these annual educational visits were organised and the Gibraltar representation in Brussels was significantly upgraded. The irony is that enthusiastic Europeans were now leading on our departure from the European Union.

Dr Garcia explained that the Government had left no stone unturned in its efforts to

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put across the Gibraltar point of view to decision-makers in Brussels and in London.

In the EU this included the different Member States of the European Union, a large number of key Members of the European Parliament and the European Commission itself. In the United Kingdom it included every major political party from the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish National Party and Democratic Unionists. There was also positive engagement with the United Kingdom Government itself through the framework of the Joint Ministerial Council, and also with all the Devolved Administrations, with the Crown Dependencies and the other UK Overseas Territories.

The Deputy Chief Minister went over the issues which relate to the border, access to the Single Market, access to the UK market and future trade agreements between the United Kingdom and 2 third parties.

He outlined the commitments that had been secured from the United Kingdom Government going forward.

Dr Garcia concluded that the EU would continue to be there once the UK and Gibraltar have left it and there would still be a need to have a relationship with it.

The group of students were Christopher Edwards, James Caruana, Nikhil Nagrani, David Garcia, Henry Archer, Louis Chincotta, Melanie Trinidad, Nuhaila Mkerref, Sanya Chugani, Mariam Pinto, Lauren Lopez and Josephine Cassaglia.

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news YOUTH WORK VOLUNTEER TRAINING

The training period runs until July 2018 during which time trainees will have the opportunity to work alongside full and part time staff in a variety of youth work scenarios.

The Gibraltar Youth Service will deliver an Introduction to Youth Work Training Course for new volunteers at the Youth Centre, Montagu Bastion, Line Wall Road starting on Saturday 17th February 2018.

The training offers an ideal opportunity for those who wish to work with young people and with a commitment to their education and welfare.

This year trainees will once again have the choice of two routes, assessed and non-assessed. They will both be involved in face-to-face work soon after an initial introduction to Youth Work aims and objectives and Youth Work delivery. The assessed route will require the trainee to evidence a set of core Youth Work skills and develop relevant social educational projects. Successful completion of these will result in the award of a local certificate in an ‘introduction to understanding Youth Work.

For more information about the course and application procedure please contact Charlene Figueras or Rebecca Figueras 200 78578 during office hours or email: charlene.figueras@gibraltar.gov.gi. For application forms visit the www.youth.gi website. The deadline for applications is Friday 9th February 2018, 5:00pm.

Finally, for any general information about the Gibraltar Youth Service please contact Mark Zammit, Principal Youth Officer on gibyouth@gibtelecom.net or call 20078637.

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news AWARENESS TRAINING ON LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND AUTISM The Ministry of Equality again offered an awareness training session on “Introduction to Learning Disabilities and Autism” last month.

On the last occasion the training was attended by Special Olympics Gibraltar, Gibraltar Girl Guides Association, The Scout Association (Gibraltar) and Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Gibraltar.

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The seminar focused on 5 key points: 1. Understanding learning disabilities, autism and mental health.

2. Causes associated with these diagnoses.

3. Understanding links between certain conditions.

4. Understanding behaviour within these conditions.

5. Positive approaches to working with people with learning disabilities.

The Minister for Equality, The Hon Samantha Sacramento MP, said: “I was very encouraged by the positive feedback received from the last training.

Many of those who attended said that they had enjoyed the presentation and in particular the group interaction and the sharing of experiences.

These organisations provide an important service to the community, this includes helping children to develop key skills and attributes, which will no doubt help them in the future as adults. This training can only improve the excellent service that each NGO provides to the local community and will make them more inclusive of people with disabilities."

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Over the last 12 months, the GHA has launched several new initiatives and programmes to improve and modernise surgical services and maintained bed resiliency.

This has included increased staffing in key areas and the appointment of specialists to develop new services within the GHA. The appointment of a new colorectal surgeon has seen the introduction of a ‘keyhole bowel surgery programme’ for the first time in the GHA, meaning less invasive surgery and shorter hospital stays for patients. The new service is being supported by an enhanced recovery programme, which aims to optimise patients before surgery and ensure rapid return of normal bowel and body function. This programme involves targeted input from dieticians, physiotherapists, intensive care nurses and anaesthetists. Patients will receive the most up to date anaesthetic and pain control techniques, to ensure they are comfortable and able to get up and about within a very short time of their surgery.

The GHA has also appointed an upper gastro-intestinal surgeon twelve months ago and has launched two new surgical programmes. The first of these is weight loss surgery, (bariatric surgery), which again is mainly being done via the key hole approach. Patients entered into this programme are prepared for surgery via a programme of coordinated care, involving the surgeons and dieticians. The surgical and anaesthetic techniques being used

allow patients to recover rapidly from their surgery and go home after a few days. The second programme is upper gastrointestinal surgery, also new to the GHA. This has seen new types of key hole and open stomach, spleen, liver, pancreas and gall bladder operations being performed in the GHA for the first time. Only this week, a second upper gastro-intestinal surgeon has commenced work at the GHA, she also has a special interest in Breast Surgery, having completed a fellowship with the Royal Marsden Hospital Specialist Breast team.

Gibraltar is currently experiencing a surge in winter influenza and other flu-like-illnesses, which is similar to the pattern that is being seen in the UK. The St Bernard's Emergency Department has seen a total number of 500 attendances from the 22 December to the 27 December 2017, and the wards have had increased admissions from just before Christmas The Medical Director of the GHA, Dr Daniel Cassaglia, commented that: “my medical colleagues have confirmed that the numbers of patients being seen and admitted with Influenza is the highest they have seen for many years and mirrors what is being seen in other European countries this winter. So far we have been able to cope with this surge in admissions, and GHA staff will continue to work very hard to ensure optimal bed availability at St Bernard’s Hospital”.

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news THE ROWING MARINE’S WORLD FIRST ATLANTIC OCEAN SOLO ROW IS POSTPONED Lee Spencer, The Rowing Marine, has postponed his attempt to become the world’s first physically disabled person to row solo from Europe to South America due to the devastating loss of his mother.

Lee commented: “I would like to thank everyone in Gibraltar and all of my sponsors for their understanding and support.

The key word here is postponement. I have a small window to leave this year, if

not I will return next year - everything is in place and ready to go. My priority right now is my family.”

The revised launch date will be announced in due course.

Safeguarding training is essential for all professionals working with children and young persons. This training has been provided to all professionals working with children since its first commencement and delivery in the year 2007. December 2017 has seen the 10th anniversary of safeguarding training delivery to front line professionals working with children. Since its commencement, approximately 2000 professionals have undertaken the Safeguarding Training.

different departments are delivering in ensuring children and young people are safeguarded.”

CHILD PROTECTION SAFEGUARDING TRAINING The 7th December saw the last Child Protection Safeguarding Tier 1 Training for the year 2017. This completes the 2017 Safeguarding Training provided by key professionals within the Safeguarding Training Sub- Committee, part of the Child Protection Committee. During this last year the team has delivered twelve Tier 1 sessions, two Tier 2 sessions, and one Tier 3 session. The total number of participants trained in 2017 alone is 402.

The Training Sub-Committee remains multi-disciplinary, with identified lead trainers from the Care Agency, Gibraltar Health Authority, Department of Education, Royal Gibraltar Police, Youth Services, and Gibraltar Sports and Leisure Authority. Giselle Carreras, (Chair for the Safeguarding Training SubCommittee and Head of Psychology and Therapy at the Care Agency), highlighted that multi-agency working and the delivery of this training by a multi-disciplinary team over many years, has been pivotal in the success of this training programme. She further emphasised the importance that Safeguarding Training encompassed, specifically in learning, understanding, and implementing systems and processes, so as to protect and safeguard children from harm.

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The Chair for the Child Protection Committee, and CEO of the Care Agency, Natalie Tavares was happy at the positive feedback provided on the safeguarding training, stating: “I would like to thank the members of both the executive and operational arms of the Child Protection Committee on the invaluable work their

Minister for Health, Care and Justice, the Honourable Neil F. Costa MP, commented that he was very pleased that the Child Protection Committee, and its sub-groups, continue to raise awareness, in addition to firmly establishing the importance of safeguarding for children and young persons in Gibraltar. "It is important that this work is carried out in a multidisciplinary manner and delivered by professionals from my different responsibilities, in conjunction with the other Government Departments, which hold responsibility for safeguarding."

He further added that: "safeguarding is everybody's business".

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around town – Three Kings Cavalcade 2018

THREE KINGS CAVALCADE 2018 61st anniversary of the Three Kings Cavalcade was a great success, with many more participants than the previous year.

Well done to all involved!

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hello there

Susan Clifton-Tucker, 62

Andrew Tucker, 56

Television Presenter and Journalist at GBC

Chartered Certified Accountant

As I arrived for my date, I energetically pinched what I thought was my husband’s bottom and enveloped him in an enthusiastic bear hug from behind, only to be met with a complete stranger.

This was years ago and we still laugh about it today!!!

I scoured the room for my date, only to find her enthusiastically greeting another man’s derriere. We’re married now!

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR

Sonia McKay, 45

Viktor

Senior Company Administrator at Fiduciary Management Ltd

Barman at The Ivy

Many moons ago, I was invited for an evening meal by a friend lawyer. I approved out of pure politeness. We ended up having a meal special at Burger King with close to no conversation.

Needless to say, I did all in my power to avoid him after that. This has to be the most awkward “date” of my life. I still cringe at the thought.

So we went for a night out. Its started great but I forgot that I had taken some medication for a headache. So after like 2 hours of drinking I passed out in a park. I lost my keys, my headphones, everything! We didn’t go out again...

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MJ Feeke, 39

Graeme Fulton, 28,

Chef Owner at Benjamin’s

Tech Blogger at Prototypr.io

My most awkward date has to be when I went on the first one with my husband… and he bought his mum.

Took this girl out for a date. When we got back to the car, I thought it’d be a good idea to let her drive it. After a jumpy start, we put our seatbelts on and I directed her towards a small roundabout where she promptly turned into a lamppost.

MOST AWKWARD DATE ?

Minnie, 2

Mickey, 5 months

Professional Hot Water Bottle

Underwear Burglar

There I was, minding my own business, when Daddy Paul and Mummy Nic come home with this Dachshund who was, quite frankly, barking mad. As I was making myself comfortable on the sofa that evening, guess who walks in with undies in his mouth?! Doesn’t he know we’re only meant to chew left shoes and unidentified objects from outside?

When I first arrived at my new home, I saw the most beautiful Dachshund I’ve ever seen. It was puppy-love at first sight. I decided to bring her some of the humans’ underfur as a romantic gift, but try as I mutt, it didn’t go down so well and she nipped me.

That was ruff…

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business

WHAT THE HYPE Looking past the puffery of Artificial Intelligence

BY GRAEME FULTON

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ver the last few years, there’s been a whole lot of hoopla about Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over people’s jobs, potentially leaving hundreds out of work. It sounded like mere speculation into the future, but in reality it’s not even ‘just around the corner’ any more - it’s here. According to a Mckinsey report, all companies should be preparing for the digital wave of disruption AI is bringing: The impact on jobs may sound scary, but it doesn’t need to be. AI won’t only result in a loss of jobs, but the creation of new work. But how did AI emerge? Is it really all it’s made out to be? And will AI cause dramatic changes in 2018?

The Emergence of the Machines Employing AI to automate repetitive and mundane tasks makes sense in a few

ways - it’s cheaper labour for businesses and gives people the chance to do more rewarding and creative work. The benefits are highlighted on a largest scale by Amazon. As well has launching their smart assistant Alexa, Amazon employ more than 100,000 robots in their warehouses to automate manual lifting work once handled by humans.

• I n 2015, 15% of enterprise companies were already using AI to automate manual, repetitive tasks. (Narrative Science)

The New York Times reported that bots not only make warehouse work less tedious for people, but also create efficiency gains that “let a customer order dental floss after breakfast and receive it before dinner”. Essentially, machines enable humans to do better and more enjoyable tasks.

• I n 2017, 80% of enterprises adopted some form of AI in production (Forbes)

This transition to a robotic workforce hasn’t appeared out of nowhere either.

There has been a trend in growth:

• By 2016, 38% of enterprises adopted AI (26% for automating repetitive tasks). (Narrative Science)

Whilst AI is still at an early stage of development overall, it could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030 (according to PwC’s report). And this first wave of adoption no doubt brings us right up to the doorstep of some exciting opportunities through which we can start tapping into AI’s real potential.

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HUMAN PROGRESS

HUMAN PROGRESS THROUGH TIME

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writer and TED speaker Tim Urban illustrated, we’re reaching the verge of a new paradigm that will sweep the world:

Revolution’, Urban observed that an ‘S-curve’ is formed every time waves of progress driven by new paradigms sweep the world. Zooming out from the situation presented above, this chart shows the bigger picture:

The S-curve: Why 2018?

In his article back in 2015, ‘The AI

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Cognitive Computing

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Blockchain Commercial UAVs (Drones)

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4D Printing

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Through of Disillusionment

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Deep Learning Machine Learning Autonomous Vehicles Nanotube Electronics

Augmented Data Discovery

Quantum Computing

3. A leveling off as the particular paradigm matures

verge of a new paradigm that will sweep the world.

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For 2018, AI may just be at the tail end of the slow growth phase, as it’s more ready than ever to accelerate after the high adoption rates we saw over the past year. Just like growth of the Internet As Urban explained, the curve goes between 1995 and 2007, adoption was through three phases: the first struggle, which subsequently lead to an explosion of different use cases 1. Slow growth (the early phase of expoof the Internet - from social networking nential growth) like MySpace, the birth of search engine companies like Google, 2. Rapid growth (the late, exWe’re and then the entire e-commerce plosive phase of exponential reaching the industry. growth)

What Tim illustrates (diagram 1) was part of a larger concept which he coined the ‘S-curve’ (diagram 2). That was published back in 2015 at the time we first started to see a rise in adoption of AI in enterprise businesses. Now it’s 2018, so let’s re-visit his theory to see what the S-curve is and it means for today:

Virtual Assistants IoT Platform Smart Robots

THE S-CURVE WAVE OF A NEW PARADIGM AS IT EXPLODES INTO GROWTH AND THEN MATURES

technology As suggested by Urban, this is the same • Looking forward into 2018, we may type of growth spurt that can come next see a little more hype, followed by a for AI, so 2018 might be the time dip in expectations as compafor AI to start living up to some Bots create nies deal with the realities of of the hype. efficiency implementing these technologies gains effectively.

Exceeding Expectations that “let a This dip in expectations is natural customer Speaking of hype, taking a look though, as we all want super order dental at the popular Hype Cycle from intelligent robots cooking our floss after Gartner can help us look past dinners, and being friends with much of this ballyhoo, and get a breakfast us right now! Popular TV show, more realistic view of where AI and receive Black Mirror, even has some of might be at: it before us sold on the idea of living forever in the form of a conscious dinner." robot - a bit like Sophia Bot from Hanson Electronics:

“ AI touches almost every aspect of our lives. And it’s only just getting started.”

– PwC

This Hype Cycle includes AI as a one of the megatrends of technology that companies should be investigating for the future of their workforces. The cycle can suggest: • A I trends such as Virtual Assistants, Smart Robots and Conversational AI were reaching a peak of inflated expectations 6 months ago (when the cycle was published).

Downloading a Michael Jackson bot would be amazing, but we can’t moonwalk before we can walk; like most complex technologies, AI will be implemented bit by bit, and we’ll have to learn from our mistakes along the way.

The Future is Soon

Take Microsoft’s intelligent chatbot called Tay as a prime example. Tay was released into the wild world of Twitter to learn and communicate with humans but unfortunately was taught to be a controversial racist in less than a day.

Despite the obvious issues outlined above, PwC still forecast AI to bring economic benefits of more than the current output of China and India combined by 2030.

The Hype cycle also predicts it’ll be just 5–10 years until AI reaches a plateau in productivity.

Additionally, we may not be quite so ready to trust our bot friends to accurately take our orders without the chance of them mixing things up. For example, when using speech-to-text software to say: “This new display can recognise speech” The (not-so) reliable iPhone’s voice recognition can easily interpret that as: “This nudist play can wreck a nice beach”

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“ Artificial intelligence is poised to unleash the next wave of digital disruption, and companies should prepare for it now.”

– Mckinsey

In the grand scheme of things it’s fair to say 2030 is not actually that far off, so preparing your companies and workforces for the robot economy now is a good idea.

For when the robots do come for our jobs, the crucial problem will be to create those new jobs that humans can perform better than algorithms (EY - Ernst & Young).

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THE NIGHT ECONOMY How many times have you been out late at night wishing somewhere was open to do some shopping? Wishing you could have gone to the gym at night? Get some emergency photocopying or printing done?

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estimated at over £171 million and over alking around Gibraltar after Worldwide, extended opening hours 8pm sometimes feels like 3600 jobs directly supported by these are beginning to spread to other sectors the place is a ghost town. night trains (only about 14% of those are beyond retail. Whether you’re looking to Perhaps with the exception transport jobs). In Gibraltar, late night buy or rent a property, actually managing buses have been introduced on weekof Ocean Village, Morrison’s which is open to view properties can be a real chore as ends which is a step in the right till 11pm and Eroski which shuts at 10pm, most agents close by 17:30 and pretty much everything else is closed. direction. seem to be closed for the weekIf managed Gibraltar’s shop opening laws require tradend (except Chesterton’s which is well, extenders to shut by 8pm at the latest (with few open on Saturdays). Some estate Indeed, the importance of the ed opening exceptions). This looks even more absurd agents in London are now offerNight Economy to London is so hours can in summer when daylight hours ing extended hours with viewings significant (estimated at generate a are long and people are still at possible until 9pm or even 10pm. over £26 billion in 2016 Surely the beach and out and about greater sense Banks too have realised that exand supports 1.25 milshops and at 8pm. Surely shops and other tended opening is attracting more lion jobs), that London’s of belonging other busibusinesses can benefit from late customers. Branches of Standard Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and more nesses can opening hours?

Chartered Bank in Singapore has appointed a ‘Night coherent and in other countries across benefit from Czar’ to make London’s communities.

Asia are now open until 9pm and In fact, cities around the world night-time economy late opening on weekends, and 24-hour hair even better – the writer, are starting to embrace the Night hours? salons are popping up from New York to broadcaster, DJ, performer and Economy with late night shopcampaigner Amy Lamé. Amy’s ap- Sydney. Even some zoos, museums and ping or 24-hour opening becompointment comes after the hugely success- other tourist attractions are opening up at ing increasingly available. Last year London night to offer a more exciting experience. ful creation of night-time mayors in other Underground started operating trains 24 hours on some tube lines, with the result cities across the globe from Amsterdam and Berlin to San Francisco. so far being an increase economic activity Gibraltar is going through a construction 26

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Providing a diverse, vibrant and safe nightlife is a big tourist attraction.

INDEED, LATE NIGHT OPENING HAS NUMEROUS ADVANTAGES: 1. More jobs: The night-time economy is a source of new jobs and new income for the city.

2. Revitalisation of public space: It allows the revitalisation of areas and buildings in the city, particularly those that are not used after a certain hour of the day.

3. Safety: 24-hour cities promote citizen security. Why? Because - at least perceptually - a street that is filled with people feels much safer than an empty street. For this reason, policies that invite people to stay outside, such as expanding the hours of operation of shops, restaurants and movie theatres, help maintain lively streets.

boom at the moment, with large projects being built in Mid-Town, Europort, Queensway, Devil’s Tower Road and the planned new Government developments on the East Side. It is imperative that town planners and policy makers consider the changing lifestyles of cities and integrate facilities and laws that promote night time and weekend activities as part of their strategies.

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using venues like the airport terminal as pop-up clubs or performance spaces. It might involve “White Nights” - arts festivals where local areas stay open all night for performances, artworks and celebration - so successful across Europe. And it might mean that an off-duty nurse, a taxi driver or a departing clubber can find a safe, comfortable and welcoming place for a meal or drink during the night.

In practice, while Gibraltar may be too small to make it economically viable for retailers to be open 24x7, the legal framework should be there to allow them to do so, should they wish. In an era when local businesses are competing with 24x7 international online shops and are faced with political and economic uncertainty of Brexit, levelling the playing field in terms of extended opening hours (even on weekends) may be helpful. And there’s little doubt that providing a diverse, vibrant and safe nightlife is a big tourist attraction.

4. Foster tourism: A city with a vibrant night life is much more attractive for visitors. A city that offers late night transportation, as well as restaurants and shops that open late, is much more attractive to those who come to visit. Gibraltar is trying to promote event-driven tourism to get more visitors to stay here overnight. A much wider late-night offering is needed to attract people to stay here.

5. Sense of belonging: If managed well, extended opening hours can generate a greater sense of belonging and more coherent communities.

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Proud of the past, confident in the future – ISOLAS LLP announces acquisition of Legacy Consulting ISOLAS LLP, currently celebrating its 125th anniversary, has acquired the law firm Legacy Consulting.

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egacy Consulting is a boutique family office practice, focusing on servicing High Net Worth individuals and families, establishing wealth management structures, and family offices in Gibraltar and implementing family governance frameworks. It also advises clients on relocation, taxation (including cross border taxation), structuring, succession planning and philanthropy and works with next generations to educate them on family wealth.

Emma Lejeune joins ISOLAS together with new associates Harriet Almeida and Nicki Walker, both experienced law-

Left to right: Marcus Killlick, Emma Lejeune, Nicki Walker, Harriet Almeida and Peter Isola

yers who were previously part of Legacy Consulting.

On the acquisition of Legacy and the arrival of Ms Lejeune, Peter Isola explained that: “This acquisition marks the continued development and growth of the firm in the context of a buoyant yet competitive market. Emma’s expertise in the area of family offices compliments the firm’s own private client practice and allows us to reach out to a wider range of High Net Worth clients, many of whom we are now seeing as part of other activities in which

the firm is heavily involved. Being able to provide entrepreneurs and investors with solid advice on issues such as succession and wealth management is an important part of our firm’s services and I am excited to be able to welcome Emma and her colleagues.”

Emma Lejeune added: “To be recognised

by ISOLAS is both a great honour and a testament to the hard work that went into making Legacy a success. We are thrilled to have joined such a vibrant team and look forward to contributing to the firm’s continued success through our complimentary practice areas.”

ISOLAS LLP announces the appointment of two new partners ISOLAS LLP announced the appointment of Emma Lejeune and Selwyn Figueras as Partners.

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mma Lejeune is appointed a Partner following the recent acquisition by ISOLAS LLP of Legacy Consultants, a boutique family office practice servicing high net worth individuals and their needs.

Peter Isola commented: “Having Emma and her team join us reflects the continued growth and strengthening of the ISOLAS brand. Emma brings exactly the right blend of proactive client support and quality of service that ISOLAS recognises is crucial in a challenging market. As the

Left to right: Marcus Killlick, Emma Lejeune, Selwyn Figueras and Peter Isola

uncertainties of Brexit remain, her addition demonstrates the firm’s confidence in the future and its commitment to maintaining its ongoing development”.

In addition, Selwyn Figueras, who was called to the Gibraltar Bar in 2001 and appointed ISOLAS Business Development Manager in 2008 is also appointed a Partner.

Selwyn has been an integral and important part of the team developing ISOLAS in the last decade and has been instrumental in the creation of ISOLAS marketing

structure. Welcoming the appointment Marcus Killick ISOLAS CEO said: “Selwyn’s appointment reflects the importance the firm places in constantly developing and evolving its business model to meet the needs of our existing and future clients and the pivotal role Selwyn has played in this. This has included utilising his extensive experience in modern media techniques as well as regular marketing trips to various jurisdictions including, more recently, supporting the firms’ Distributed Ledger Technology team.”

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In recent months it seems everyone’s talking about the growing impact of ‘blockchain’ and the price of one of the cryptocurrencies it underwrites – bitcoin. If you are confused by the technology and the terminology, hopefully this month’s column is for you.

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t seems that ‘everybody’ is talking about bitcoin, but in reality it remains a relatively small marketplace and, whilst it is generating a huge amount of hype and press comment, very few people I know have any real understanding. Indeed many may be feeling more than a little ‘left behind’.

So here is my contribution for those that wish to get up to speed with these exciting developments. In the course of the next thousand words or so, I will be throwing a number of new terms at you, long-suffering readers, but please bear with me. Read on.

Underlying all of this is Distributed Ledger Technology (or simply ‘DLT’ to the initiated). When bitcoin first emerged back in 2009, it was described as a ‘cryptocurrency’ based on ‘blockchain’ using ‘DLT’.

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amount of new information all at once. So let’s stop for a moment and go back to the beginning.

was natural to create electronic versions of the filing cabinet. Simple storage on the computer’s internal space led inexorably to shared ‘drives’ and then, of course, the arrival of the Internet brought about previously undreamed of Fundaaccess through the ‘cloud’. But mentally, the we are not at the end of that archiving journey, not by any measure.

Let us assume that you need to store a document for safekeeping. Anyone my age who has worked in an office will remember the old days of paper, staples, of valuable clips, folders and filing cabinets. documenFundamentally, the archiving of Which brings us back to valuable documentation had not Distributed Ledger Technology. tation had changed for centuries and the We can define DLT as a database not changed dangers were all too obvious. (ledger) that is shared (distributfor centuDocuments could be misfiled, ed) across a network of widely ries and the removed and never returned or, spread computers. Records – dangers in the worst-case scenario, the perhaps transactions or maybe were all too archive itself could be destroyed. contracts – are copied to all obvious.

As a young banker one of my first participants numbering in their jobs was preparing indemnities hundreds or thousands, thererelating to lost documents – and a real fore making the holding of the file totally pain it was too! secure.

Fast forward to recent times and the advent of computers and digitalisation. It

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technology office filing cabinet and what happens in the case of, say, a fire? With DLT, records are ‘decentralised’ and copied hundreds of times securely and rapidly using cryptography onto different computers. As a result, the risks of accidental or malicious intervention are very much reduced, if not totally eliminated.

Moving on from DLT, let us now consider a definition of ‘blockchain’. Blockchain is a foundational digital technology that allows a network of computers (wherever they may be located physically) to manage, together and in a decentralised way, the database or group of files that we considered under DLT.

identity and authentication, reputation verification, energy, ride-sharing services, gaming, consumer engagement, even e-voting.

DLT is new and is set to overturn the former way of doing things. It will take time but it will happen. I do not think it unreasonable to consider Compare its potential for transformation to this to the be as ‘disruptive’ as the creation office filing of the Internet itself – and think cabinet and how relatively recently that what haphappened.

pens in the case of, say, a fire?

Essentially, ‘blocks’ are segregated, vast bundles of data in permanent communication with each other so that each block knows what the content is in the rest of the chain. However, only the owner of a particular block has the digital key to access it. The other blocks will immediately detect anyone who attempts an exchange of data outside the protocols of the chain – and the exchange will be aborted.

Suddenly, the world has acquired a system for the fast, trusted exchange of vast amounts of data without intermediaries or supervision.

What remains in this whistle stop tour? Cryptocurrency. No prizes for guessing the ‘superpower’ against which all other cryptocurrencies are measured – bitcoin. This was the first DLT currency and enjoys huge public recognition even if the underlying technology is not (yet) widely understood. Released in 2009 it has been joined by no fewer than 1,400 other cryptocurrencies. Some such as Ethereum, Dash and Ripple are relatively well known, but the majority are smaller with highly specialised applications.

Apart from the global interest in cryptocurrencies – and bitcoin in particular – there is a particular, local relevance to us here in Gibraltar. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) or Initial Token Offerings (ITOs) are a means of crowd-funding using cryptocurrency, which can be a source of capital for startup companies without the burdensome costs of regulatory compliance.

In an ICO, some quantity of the cryptocurrency is pre-allocated to investors in the form of ‘tokens’, in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or Ethereum. These tokens become functional units of currency if or when the ICO’s funding goal is met and the project launches. Proceeds from ICOs topped $4 Back to bitcoin and in particular the hype billion last year, despite escalating warnsurrounding it in recent months. ings from officials of rising risks At present we cannot use bitand fraud.

This is not coin to buy goods and services for the faint generally – although the number Gibraltar has recognised the hearted of businesses that accept it as a value that could be generated by and normal payment method is growing all Could one argue that DLT and blockchain the orderly regulation of such an the time. In bitcoin’s case the are one and the same? No, they are not investment important development. Being a supply is limited to 21 million so but they are often conflated. I describe criteria first mover in the online gaming its supporters assert that demand blockchain as being the original manifesshould business proved to be enormouscan only increase as it starts to tation of DLT – the only one so far in fact. always be ly successful and the government be used more widely. We are Other technologies will no doubt appear is keen to repeat that experience. applied. likely to experience similar effects in time but, for now, think of blockchain as Legislation has recently been with some, but certainly not all, being the practical way of using the DLT enacted to regulate this sector – the first of the other cryptocurrencies available. concept. worldwide. The potential benefits to our business community and Gibraltar in genIf anyone wants to jump on the bandIn practical terms, what can DLT be used eral could be huge. wagon and ‘speculate’ (or should that be for? Simply put, it will revolutionise work gamble?) on the value of bitcoin or any of – be that for companies, governments It is indeed a brave new world but one that its crypto-cousins, inevitably the and ultimately, all of us. This government and the local finance industry old world must become involved. brave new world doesn’t stop at What can is already embracing. We should all get This is not for the faint hearted document storage and data manDLT be used behind the efforts being made because and normal investment criteria agement, anything that requires success in this for?

Simply should always be applied. accurate, secure recordkeeping area will benefit put, it will will use DLT in the future – for the economy as a revolutionise example, land records and perA relationship with an exchange whole – and theresonal documents, such as driving work. of some kind must be established fore all of us – in licences and passports.

– as in the old days one might the years ahead. have employed a stockbroker. Investors may be happy to retain their cryptocurWhile initial interest has focused on rency with that exchange. Alternatively finance-related applications such as paythey can establish an ‘e-wallet’ of their ments, clearing and settlement, non-fiown. There is one final term to consider nancial players have also been looking for IAN LE BRETON here – ‘fiat’ currency. This is not related to ways to leverage the opportunities that Corporate Services Director, Sovereign the Italian car manufacturer but is the term DLT opens. Interesting areas include sup+350 200 76173 used to refer to traditional legal tender ply chain certification, helping artists and ilebreton@SovereignGroup.com musicians to attribute digital art, media and such as pounds, dollars or euro that are used to buy (or value) crypto. content distribution, commodities, digital GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

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FOR THE LOVE OF BUSINESS Polite observations into the true nature of entrepreneurs and the reasons behind their success

BY DAN THOMSON

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through a passive income, yet nobody reason. You can’t just want to become ou don’t have what it takes”.

I have met or even heard of has one of That was the title of the first rich and imagine that it’s going to happen those. Even some of the wealthiest people business talk I ever attended overnight. No successful entrepreneur has and alluded to the fact that ever done it for the money.

I’ve been lucky enough to meet, with personal wealth into the billions, still work 80% of people would like to start their over eighty hours per week. And here’s own business one day, and yet it is only What then, passion? Whilst passion is a the real kicker… not because 2% of small businesses that ever strong motivator, a reathey have to, but because they grow to see themselves grow big son to do good in the Even Just wantenough to become a success. couldn’t imagine themselves doworld, it often doesn’t some of the ing to start ing anything else. Not out of love bring the success that wealthiest your own for their work or their business, you expect, because beAnd to that effect, they were people I’ve business isn't lieving in a product and but because of a work ethic that probably right. These days you been lucky stems from the love of working. enough. You often hear individuals describe service wholeheartedly enough to can often lead to a kind themselves as entrepreneurs, or have to have of blindness, followI get asked regularly what business (wo)men, and yet when meet still a driving made me want to start my own ing your own cause, followed up with the question of work over reason. uncompromisingly. And business and I honestly couldn’t what it is they actually do, you’re eighty hours tell them. I used to say it was beoften met with the answer of “I while admirable, it very per week. cause I couldn’t work for anyone have an idea, to start my own business” often leads to more stress than most can handle and negatively else, but that would be untrue; I or an incoherent waffle about five or six think a sense of accountability is useful not projects they’re working on. None of which impacts other areas of people’s lives. matter who you are, or what business you makes them an entrepreneur. run. Most successful founders and CEOs Everyone dreams of the easy, fun business are accountable to a board of directors. that they’re passionate about and makes Just wanting to start your own business So what might have started as arrogance, loads of money for them and their family isn’t enough. You have to have a driving "

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business and thinking I was better than the people I worked for in a London cocktail bar at the time, turned out to be a sense of wanting something to Ironically it grow. Not for my own personal was love that gain though. If I had wanted to earn a lot of money and have all got me into the free time in the world I can my current think of 5 jobs I’ve been offered business, in my life that any sensible perSupernatural. son would kill for.

Ironically it was love that got me into my current business, Supernatural. My girlfriend at the time could see an emerging

Dan Thomson

Behind the bar at Supernatural

Pouring cocktails at his old UK establishment, BYOC market for health and wellness and due to my background operating bars in London, she saw a unique opportunity to apply those skills to health food and in particular, juice bars. 5 years later you can find us at our latest location in the World Trade Center.

wanting to work for my employees to make them proud and to see something grow and become something really special.

Making money keeps my board of directors happy too.

Nobody teaches entrepreneurship.

Nobody could. You have to become the So why do it at all? Honestly, most of my salesman, the manager, the trainer, the life is spent being so analytical accountant, and the lawyer. You and logical (probably not to my just have to jump in and learn as You have to benefit), that starting my own you go and you will learn faster become the businesses seems the wrong than anyone could ever teach salesman, thing to do. I’ve started a dozen you. Nobody tells you about the the manager, hours of your life this will take up, businesses and most of them the trainer, have failed. Some from very early the loved ones that will suffer. on, some took years of matuthe accounEven on the most luxurious ration before having to call it a holidays it is virtually impossible tant, and the day. Knowing this, and the 98% to switch off. So what appears to lawyer. chance of failure, no matter how be bliss to the outside world and hard you work or how much you to aspiring entrepreneurship is care about your product/service, goes actually endless work. against any logical thought you could have on the matter. What started as not The end game for most businesses, and wanting to work for anyone has become again, the main reason people start a GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

business (for the wrong reason) is the fast growth and quick sale at a huge profit. For the most successful individuals however it is usually that the work-life balance has shifted too far in the wrong direction, or that they know something about the company that you don’t. For some it is about an attempt at retirement, but what would I do with retirement? I can barely take an hour’s break without feeling itchy to do something.

I’m not successful by any scale, I cherish my own freedom and enjoy what I do and the benefit it brings others. I can’t see that changing, and I couldn’t see myself stopping for anything. There is no chasing Friday, or holding on for Christmas or even retirement. Those are all great opportunities to enjoy what I do even more.

So do you have what it takes? Probably not, at least to turn the business into an international success. But should you try anyway? Absolutely! Starting a business can be the most rewarding experience in the world, even if it fails, no matter how big it gets. Win or lose you learn a lot and nobody can take that experience away from you. What else would you do?

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HOME OR AWAY Should I get my future property insured locally in Gibraltar or should I be looking abroad?

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ot long ago, a client came to me asking me whether he should insure his brand new one-bedroom apartment purchased in Gibraltar back in England, or whether he should consider doing it locally via a Gibraltar insurance company or broker. This was an easy question to answer. It is much more practical to insure your house via a Gibraltar Insurance company given the fact that everything is handled in situ, and it is so much easier in case of any problems or issues coming up (and they do come up) as a local company has a much more practical and faster approach to solve your case than another overseas alternative.

Furthermore, there are no language barriers or understanding of the so-called small print as everything is done in English.

With this first question clearly answered we may proceed to answer several basic questions than come up when organizing the relevant insurance policy with the chosen broker or company in Gibraltar.

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What does building insurance normally cover?

ment and appliances, kitchen equipment including food and drink, clothing, entertaining equipment (TV, music equipment, Building insurance aims to cover damage computers etc.) ornaments and valuables. for the structure and fittings of your home In other words, all the things that you by the perils stated in your chosen policy. would take with you if you moved to It will normally include lavatories, another house. There will be baths, interior decorations, and exceptions and exclusions so it A local fitted cupboards. In addition they is highly recommended that you company has read the policy carefully and do should include garages, fences, gates, swimming pools, tennis a much more not hesitate to ask your broker if courts and in general terms all practical you are in doubt. outbuildings. A good point to and faster check is if the policy includes approach to How much should I insure my subsidence, heave and landslip. solve your home for?

This is normally the case if the property is new. If the property is older than ten years a survey may be requested by the insurers but it can still be done.

case than another overseas alternative.

What contents will the policy cover?

Your policy should include all your belongings including furniture, electrical equip-

Your building insurance policy should basically cover the full cost of rebuilding your property in case it is totally destroyed. This figure does not necessarily have to match the market value of your property. Au contraire, it will more likely match the valuation figure done by the valuation survey provided it is recent one. It should GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

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not be older than one year or else you will have to add a little for inflation increases.

With regards to contents these should be covered for the cost of brand new replacement values today.

Building insurance should cover the full cost of rebuilding your property in case it is totally destroyed.

Will my mortgage bank need a copy?

Most definitely it will need a copy. All banks will ask you for a copy of your insurance policy. Some banks across the border in Spain will insist you even insure via their own insurer or that you take a life insurance policy as well.

house is your permanent address.

A point to consider is that you should declare high valuables separately like for instance a good painting or an expensive watch. This is an important factor to discuss with your insurer prior to obtaining your final policy.

Must I be aware of any important exclusions in my policy?

following from their customers as far as a minimum security is concerned.

Doors: Outside doors should be made of solid timber and be secured with 5 lever mortice deadlocks or their equivalent.

These deadlocks can only be opened by a key so that a burglar cannot use a plastic card to move in the tongue and open the door. Glass doors should be fitted with similar locks.

Every policy has exclusions. With this in Windows: Ideally they should have iron mind I strongly advise you to read your bars or grills. Remember that most burpolicy thoroughly and with glaries occur via unprotected enough time to spot any issues windows.

Gibraltar which can be brought up with is normally your insurer. Most companies in A good insurance policy coververy safe but Gibraltar have policies very simiing all the needed aspects is an one never Are my personal belongings lar to their UK counterparts. With absolute must even if this means covered when I am away from really knows. some local additions like insura certain higher cost. Gibraltar is home or travelling? ance for breakages due to a surge normally very safe but one never from the electricity supplier. really knows. A top class alarm system I always recommend my clients is priceless and to take an all risks policy which You should at the end of the includes this. Specifically any loss, declare high What about a safe or an alarm. day it will give you accidental damage or theft whilst Will these be requested valuables tremendous peace abroad or away from home. This by the insurers? separateof mind. includes all of Europe or the ly like for I highly recommend both and the whole world depending on the insurer will make them a must if instance policy chosen. At the end of the you declare certain valuables of day you decide which areas or a good high standard. It will always give countries must be included. painting or you great peace of mind whilst an expensive JORGE V.REIN PARLADE MBA you are away or abroad. watch.

Will my PC or valuable items Business Consultant like my Swiss wrist watch or top +350 54045282 The following standards are end Smartphone be covered? normal to be asked by any decent insurer, jorgeparlade@icloud.com and they will nearly always request the Yes they should be covered if your insured GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

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[Feminism was last year’s word of the year, seeing a 70% spike in online searches and it seems that female empowerment is here to stay in 2018 – and I couldn’t be more ecstatic.

Women are making real moves across the globe in activism and politics, with the recent shift in high profile stars using their influence and putting their weight behind solving some of the toughest issues women are facing in business. Be it the gender pay gap, harassment in the workplace or period poverty, the world’s ears are perking up and eyes are opening to systemic gender discrimination.

But it’s not just about star power – ordinary women making small steps to change the face of local workplaces and sectors can be just as inspiring.

We thought it was high-time a little attention was paid to local women doing incredible things; daring to make the bold step into starting their own business, smashing through the glass ceiling in a traditionally male-dominated sector, and making a difference to the development of local girls. Here’s the first of our monthly profiles on Gibraltarian women in business that inspire us.]

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MONICA COUMBE

A Woman's Work: Our monthly spotlight on the women carving out their own spaces on the Rock, and how they did it.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, but we interviewed a woman working in romance all 365 days of the year.

BY MOLLY MCELWEE

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ff Gibraltar’s Main Street, winding up through towards the Upper Town, you can find a quaint little shop on Governor’s Street. But don’t be deceived by its size; hundreds of floral arrangements, colour themes, design templates and first dance songs have been decided upon and planned from the office, and hundreds of years of marital bliss have come together in the Hour Weddings studio.

Our inaugural profile is on Monica Viroomal Coumbe, owner of Hour Weddings planning service. She decided to make a complete career switch and step into entrepreneurship a little later in

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life, all while raising two young children. A decade on, her wedding planning business is thriving; she’s showcased her work to an audience of two million viewers on Channel 5, organised the current Chief Minister’s wedding and in the last year organised over 100 weddings.

From epic love stories of people coming together from across the world, to cringe-worthy cancellations and awkward Ross Geller-style name blunders during ceremonies, Monica has seen it all. Here she shares the details of making it work when you’re in a 24/7 business, taming bridezillas and what a day in the life of a wedding planner looks like.

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a woman's work the list of all the props and decorations that have to be taken to the venue, make sure all the external details are in place, so AV systems I may have ordered, makeup artists and hairdressers have made it to the bride on time, checking the bows have made it to the wedding car. So there’s list after list to make sure everything is in place after months and sometimes years of planning.

movie and then the most bizarre stories too.

I had the sweetest bride turn out to be a bigamist, a man once asked me to break the news to his bride that the wedding was off, because he didn’t have the guts to tell her himself – which I obviously did not do, and I even had an 80-year-old groom who had been married I actually 12 previous times – the wedding love working I organised for him was lucky with my number 13!

I’m in the background for the first part of the day, until the wedding clients – starts in the afternoon - it’s then especially I had high school sweet hearts that I change from the organiser, from the US find each other denow that to the planner. I’ll change my cades later and get married right clothes, put my heels on and I’ve totally here in Gibraltar with me. make sure I look decent, then turned I’ll be at the wedding, receiving into a total Their stories are really importguests, allocating seats, ensuring bridezilla ant to me, and it’s beautiful to everything goes to plan and folmyself! create something you imagined, lows the itinerary we set, right up presented to the bride and until the first dance. Only then is groom, and it becoming a reality – which is my work done, and the party really begins - with Gibraltarian weddings that can often the biggest gift of all, it’s like an art for me really. mean my day finishes at midnight.

Monica Coumbe I chose this career because…

I wasn’t inspired to start the business actually, I was thinking of focusing more on event planning. For me weddings were a no-go area, only because my father died four days before my own. But a few friends really insisted that I should become a wedding planner instead, and it almost happened by chance, not by choice and I was roped into it slowly. Obviously I enjoy it thoroughly, because I’ve been doing it for the last 10 years.

She’s showcased her work to an audience of two million viewers, organised the Chief Minister’s wedding and in the last year organised over 100 weddings.

I didn’t even know what planning a wedding entailed, I had done events but I thought weddings meant I was going to have to be too close to bridezillas and that would do my head in, but I actually love working with my clients – especially now that I’ve totally turned into a total bridezilla myself!

A typical day looks like…

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You feel like you’re on call 24/7, and that can be tough. Sometimes the most challenging part of the job is having to meet demands outside of working hours, as you have to be on it almost all of the time because you’re helping your client create their vision and acting as their problem solver. But 3:00am requests in some cases can feel a bit much.

My first destination wedding, which took play in the Canary Islands. I was thrown completely out of my comfort zone, I had to coordinate about 250 guests coming from all over the world and there were 16 events over the course of a few days – and I had to organise it all in three months. It was the most stressful wedding I’ve With ever been a part of, but Gibraltarian the results were fantasweddings tic, so it all worked out that can in the end.

often mean my day finishes at midnight.

Another highlight was being featured in Channel 5’s Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun. The programme changed everything for me really, it had 2 million viewers, I was even recognised by someone while on holiday in the Caribbean.

The wedding I organised for him was lucky number 13!

On the morning of a big wedding I wake up at 6:30am and the first thing I do is check my mail and messages to make sure there aren’t any last minute hiccups or requests that have come through overnight. I get up go to my office on Governor’s Street, have my first coffee, and then check the rota to see who’s helping to set up that day. I double check

The worst part of my job is…

My career defining moment was…

The best part of my job is…

Seeing a vision come together, and learning about the stories from the couples I work with.

Interesting stories about how people meet from all over the world, how they end up in that chair, organising their special day with me in Gibraltar.

I’ve had epic love stories straight out of a

If I could be anything else, I would be…

I always wanted to do a bit of everything as a child, I never saw a clear vision of what I wanted to do but I always loved being creative, so really this is what my job is. It gives me a balance between being creative and doing all the logistics behind it.

But I always wanted to be a flamenco dancer; I still have the urge to learn how to dance like a sevillana.

The advice I’d give to anyone wanting to go into this business…

I think you need a flair for piecing together a vision, so having a creative side is key.

You also need a lot of patience; you need to be customer friendly and above all very organised. Having a great team behind you is another important factor, because most of what I do would be impossible to execute alone.

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KELLY-ANNE BORGE Waking up with Kelly: Looking back on one year on the Breakfast Show

BY ELENA SCIALTIEL

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got her alarm set at 5.30, and when it first made a big adjustment to his life to start 017 was a very good year for his day with me, and listen to me on the beeps she describes the feeling akin to twenty-six-year-old reporter, TV radio.” There’s no having breakfast together and radio presenter Kelly-Anne having to get up to catch an early plane: on weekdays for the newlyweds, but they Borge, who has managed to pack hard to start off with but exciting with expectation. make up for it on weekends, when Kelly three of the most life-changing stressful affords herself a lie-in to the ‘luxurious’ events in any young adult’s life in hour of 8-9am! the short time it takes for Earth Despite her co-present“He is very to revolve around the Sun once: "It’s easy to er Ben Lynch advising supportive new job, a fairytale wedding with the famous Breakfast While waking up in the small forget we’re of what I exotic honeymoon, and moving Club members against hours is routine in the UK, in live on air do, and I am homes.

Gibraltar it is prerogative of a hitting the snooze butsometimes grateful he’s limited number of early-bird ton, she doesn’t pracas it feels made a big professions, and it affects their Like the Earth revolving around tice what she preaches like goodsocial life later in the day, as this (to her defence, she the Sun, Kelly’s life revolves adjustment natured doesn’t preach it, Ben tends to stretch well into the pretty much around broadcasting to his life to banter with does!) and does so a small hours, when one may find and the gruelling demands of start his day oneself running on empty around couple of times before rising way before the sun does a friend, a with me, and the clock before realising it’s time tossing the covers aside – not just to avoid rush hour on chat over listen to me for work again and they haven’t her way to work, but to bid ‘Good and shuffling to the livbreakfast." on the radio.” ing room to get dressed. gone to bed yet! morning, Gibraltar!’ to listeners By then, her husband waking up to the smile in her Nick - whom she describes as ‘the love of voice when she reads out the news. “Yes, Kelly doesn’t give up socialising on weekmy life’ - is awake, so she kisses him good I always drive in the dark, even in summer, days though, always with an eye to her morning before leaving. “He is very supas I am due to open the gates at 6.30, watch, aiming to be tucked up in bed by being the first member of staff in.” She’s portive of what I do, and I am grateful he’s 11pm: “If I can make it by that time, I con44

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life sider my day accomplished. By Friday night however I am exhausted, and I usually call it an early night when everyone else is just about going out!”

Her toughest day is Wednesday going to Thursday, when she hosts the live TV programme ‘The Hub’ at 9.30pm. “I finish my shift on Radio Gibraltar at 2pm as usual, but Wednesday is the one day I definitely take an afternoon nap! I wasn’t much of a ‘napper’ before, but nowadays my body just asks for it! It isn’t physical tiredness, though, mostly the need to switch off for a while and refresh my mind before returning to Broadcasting House at 7pm.”

Being live on TV requires looking and sounding all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, which Kelly manages to pull off like a true professional. “When the show is over, I am still high on adrenaline, and winding down to sleep doesn’t come naturally when I return home, so Wednesday is the night I am hardly ever sound asleep before midnight, and the alarm blares shortly after.

Thursday mornings on air are my hardest,” she confesses, but thanks to the lively interaction she still manages to keep up with Ben, listeners hardly notice.

views and jotting down headlines.

In fact, Kelly is a reporter before being a presenter: “GBC is my first and only employer so far and I found my second family in Broadcasting House. I started there as a production secretary at just eighteen, fresh out of school and while studying for my English Language and Literature degree through the Open University. I worked on shifts and often studied at night, aiming to complete my studies in three years. Yes, I was a night owl before the opportunity of my current job propped up! But before that, a vacancy for a reporter position opened just about the time of my graduation, so I applied and landed it. Television reports gave me the chance to meet a lot of interesting people and diversify my interests: one day, it was a politician I rushed to interview with my camera crew, the next an artist or a charity activist…”

Since Christine Clifton-Psaila retired at the end of 2016, Kelly found herself with ‘big shoes to fill’ taking up "One day, the challenge of being the new it was a So, in some respects, her transfer newsreader on the ‘Breakfast politician I to the radio slowed down her Show’ – and more than that rushed to hectic day: less running or driving when she was upgraded to being around, less pressure to look picinterview the co-presenter in what was reture-perfect groomed on camera dubbed the ‘Ben & Kelly Show’. with my “I am really grateful to Ben who’s camera crew, and the relief of being allowed a ‘radio face’ on bad hair days made me feel at home in his the next although she firmly believes that long-running show, participating an artist or right: “Recently, someone recognised me the antelucan hour she leaves in his regular features and adding a charity solely from my voice: I was chatting to a home at is no excuse for not new ones that allow us to involve activist…" friend at the supermarket when someone doing her hair and make-up! Yet the audience. It’s easy to forget came up to me and exclaimed ‘hey, I’d recshe needs to keep on the ball we’re live on air sometimes as ognize your voice anywhere!’ It felt good for conversational spontaneity, because it feels like good-natured banter with a being acknowledged like that. Another there are no do-overs and editing magic friend, a chat over breakfast.” time, someone else reassured me that I am for live radio, and one must make sure that way thinner in real life than on TV…” quick-fire one-liners are kept appropriate For Kelly, breakfast is usually at her desk, at all times. ‘stashed with porridge and cereals’, while And is there life beyond the she starts her busy day organising headairwaves for Kelly? “I am a victim “I enjoy the idea of keeping "It felt lines for the many readings interspersed of wanderlust, and I spend most company to our listeners as they between 7.04 to 9.04 (or 9.09, like Ben good being of my free time planning our next get ready to face their own day.” says). She works through a hectic twoacknowlholiday - when I am not attendPerhaps her listeners are grateful hour spell, including nipping upstairs to edged like ing exercise and Zumba classes, to someone who wakes up even reception to retrieve the newly-delivered that. " which is my way to release stress earlier than them just to make dailies and perusing them for highlights, in this sweaty dance where you their morning routine more enor popping in and out of the newsroom can lose your inhibitions and have fun with joyable and informative, yet Kelly is surely before sitting back for the more relaxed likeminded women.” Indeed the world is last hour, culminating in interactive quizzes delighted to be forming a relationship with her playground, under her personal motto the most active Breakfast Club members and competitions. At ten o’clock, Kelly is who regularly send in their news, thoughts, “take everything in your stride and don’t off air and switches to her ‘producer hat’, be frightened by a challenge: the scarier guesses as a feedback to her daily dos. settling in the newsroom to produce the the challenge, the more rewarding the lunchtime news hour, editing and collating outcome will be.” segments, carrying out telephone interKelly is already a local celebrity in her own GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

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CRASHED ON DARTMOOR Gazing out the window on a cold winter’s afternoon, I watched mesmerized as a threatening black cloud rolled over the hilltop and down through the pastures covering buildings, tractors and sheep in a deep dark fog.

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the local tourist information shop, I had s I watched the above scene unfold from my small purchased the book Dartmoor Air Crashes flat in the Devon village of

by Robert Jones. On reading the book I Moretonhampstead my thoughts learned that 75 years ago, two aircraft destined for Gibraltar had crashed on the turned to the luckless World War II fliers moor. Two of the fliers, one American, who crashed and died on the bleak terrain of Dartmoor, a remote part of Second Lieutenant Jerome Devon made famous by the writForeman, and one British, Flight There ings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sergeant John Dixon, were killed. is every It’s impossible to know what the (The Hound of the Baskervilles). chance they young men knew of Gibraltar Dartmoor is not mountainous had heard at the time but there is every by any means but it does have hills that average 1,400 feet chance they had heard through through above sea level and includes military gossip that it was a good military place to be in wartime, even the highest point, High Willhays gossip that it at 2,039 feet, in the south of if only for a few days. Unlike was a good their compatriots in Britain and England. Combine this rocky, place to be in Europe, the soldiers, sailors and boulder-strewn landscape with wartime. unpredictable weather and you airmen stationed on the Rock enhave dangerous flying conditions, joyed an abundance of food, including fresh fruit and vegetables, plenty of as many an unsuspecting pilot has discovered to their misfortune. drink, nightlife, and top calibre entertainment provided by ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association), John I was thinking about war-time fliers at Gielgud, Beatrice Lilly, Vivian Leigh, Joyce the time because a few days earlier, in GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

Grenfell and Tony Hancock, to name just a few. But the 21-year-old American pilot of the P-38 Lightning and the 22-yearold co-pilot of the five-man RAF Vickers Wellington bomber would never find out, as they perished amidst the tors and peat of Dartmoor.

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning gave a much-needed boost to the Allied air forces when it first arrived in the war zones in late 1942. With its two V-12 engines it had a top speed of 400 miles an hour, a ceiling of 44,000 feet and a range of 1,300 miles. By comparison the Focke-Wulf 190, which had replaced the Messerschmitt 109 as Germany’s premier fighter, also had a top speed of about 400 mph, but its maximum ceiling was 37,000 feet and it had a range of just 500 miles. When the first P-38s arrived in Europe, however, it was soon discovered that their turbochargers were slow to engage in cold and damp conditions, which of course were prevalent in the UK and most of the continent. It 47

history was decided, therefore, that they were better suited for the dry conditions of North Africa where they could provide assistance to the Allied army battling its way east following the successful invasion, Operation Torch. As a result, on 26 January 1943, sixteen P-38 Lightnings took off from Langford Lodge, Northern Ireland.

They were to fly 1,400 miles (added distance to avoid flying over neutral Spain and Portugal) to Gibraltar with a short stopover at Portreath, Cornwall.

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The P-38 was an unusual looking fighter

Vickers Wellington with ASV

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

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with the cockpit set between the two engines, which were connected by pontoon structures to the wide stabilizer-like tail.

In his book Dartmoor Air Crashes Jones writes: “Preparing to take off from Portreath, Jerome Foreman would have settled into the roomy cockpit and scanning the instrument panel before him, gone through his pre-flight checks. The Lightning was a comfortable aircraft with good One all round visibility, although the bulky engines and broad wings disappeared did reduce the view downwards. over the sea Instead of the usual fighter ‘stick’, and was there was a steering yoke more never found often seen in much heavier and another aircraft. This would be the pilots crashed near ‘office’ for the next five hours.”

couldn’t have been much worse for poor Foreman, struggling with a disabled plane while flying over unfamiliar terrain in what were probably unfavourable weather conditions. When Foreman’s Albufeira, P-38 didn’t arrive at Gibraltar At Portreath, two of the P-38s Portugal. it was assumed that that it had were found to need more service come down over the ocean and so only fourteen - including the one flown would never be found, but on 1 March

by Foreman - took off for Gibraltar with 1943 the wreckage and Foreman’s body the flight plan taking them over the Bay of were found on a remote hill not far from Biscay and down the Atlantic coast off of Princetown (home of Dartmoor Prison). An Iberia to Gibraltar. No one knows for sure, RAF medical officer performed the post but it would seem Foreman’s Lightning mortem and found that Foreman had died must have experienced mechanical or of multiple injuries. One can only hope fuel problems, and somewhere over the that the young man died quickly and didn’t Atlantic he banked his plane around and suffer before passing. Two of the other headed back for Portreath. The situation P-38s failed to make it to Gibraltar that 48

day, one disappeared over the sea and was never found and another crashed near Albufeira, Portugal, the pilot being killed when he bailed out and his head banged against the tail.

Foreman was Jewish and lived in Los Angeles. He had enlisted on 20 November 1941, two days after his 20th birthday and seventeen days before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour and Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. Initially he was buried with full military honours in the American Military Cemetery at Brookwood, Surrey. His father Jack had died a few months earlier in a defence plant accident so it was his mother Elizabeth who struggled with the paperwork to have her beloved son’s body repatriated to America.

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Vickers Wellington with ASV

Kitty Tor

Once the War was over the U.S. Military did its best to comply and finally on 22 September 1948 Second Lieutenant Jerome Leonard Foreman was laid to rest at Hillside Memorial Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.

Vickers Wellington with ASV

A hundred of them had searched ten square miles of the bleakest parts of Dartmoor in appalling weather conditions.

The next Dartmoor death crash involving a Gibraltar bound flight came a little more than five months later. The Vickers Wellington GR11 was being ferried to join Coastal Command at Gibraltar. This RAF bomber was special because it was one of the first to be fitted with Air to Surface Radar (ASV) to be used in the ongoing battle against German submarines. Also equipped with the intensely bright Leigh Lights the Wellingtons proved to be a scourge of the U-boats. The ASV was used to locate the subs when they routinely surfaced at night to recharge their batteries.

The Leigh Lights effectively blinded the enemy gunners as the Wellingtons attacked with bombs and machine gun fire.

This particular Wellington was piloted by Flying Officer George Watterson and it took off from RAF Boscombe Down, near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, on 1 June 1943.

The remaining crew consisted of co-pilot, Sgt John Dixon, navigator Sgt G. Collins, flight engineer Sgt W. Simpson, and Wireless Operator Sgt A. Mooney. All five crew were members of the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve.

Jones writes: “It is thought the intention was to make the journey to Gibraltar via an airfield in Cornwall, most likely St. Eval.

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Vickers Wellington with ASV Cornish airfield.”

Just half an hour into the flight the weather conditions must have turned nasty and it would seem likely that FO Watterson was probably flying-low to get a sighting through the clouds and fog when the Wellington’s belly struck ground on a grassy area of the moor near Kitty Tor. Co-pilot Dixon was killed on impact, the others suffered a variety of injuries, some serious, but all survived. Dixon, the son of Joe and Sarah Dixon had earned his teaching diploma just before enlisting. He is buried in St. John’s Churchyard at Shildon, County Durham.

Despite his wounds the gutsy Watterson struck out on his own to find help. He followed a stream for three miles and must have been close to giving up hope, when two hours after the crash, he heard voices through the dense fog and stumbled, exhausted and covered in blood, into the offices of Meldon limestone quarry.

Watterson could only provide a rough description of the crash site, but quarry manager, F.G.L. Weaver, immediately organised search parties, and the determined rescuers set off into the dark laden with first aid equipment and stretchers.

the scene, testified later that the injured airmen would not have survived long on the open moor without the assistance of the quarrymen. A hundred of them had searched ten square miles of the bleakest parts of Dartmoor in appalling weather conditions.”

Southern Railway, the company that owned Meldon Quarry at the time, presented scrolls to each of the men involved in the rescue. Interestingly one of them was named Baskerville. Today Meldon Quarry is a recreational site catering to hikers, cyclists, swimmers, bungee jumpers and devotees of extreme sports, few or none will be aware of the life-changing drama that took place there 75 years ago.

It wasn’t until 11 pm, four and a half hours after the crash, that the wreckage and survivors were found. The quarrymen administered first aid and stretchered the survivors for miles through the maze of rocks and brush to waiting ambulances.

As I finish writing this account I look out the same window of the Moretonhampstead flat and see the sun shining, not a cloud in the sky, but it is 7 January, there is a slight breeze, the temperature is 4 degrees and I understand that at any moment an eerie black fog could come rolling over the hilltop.

Jones writes: “There is no doubt that the initiative and fortitude of the men of Meldon Quarry helped to save lives.

Dr. Routh of Okehampton, who attended

“Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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ON MY RETIREMENT

His attempt at ‘manufacturing’ a tin watering can which leaked like mad during his engineering apprenticeship was enough to dissuade him from choosing a blue-collar profession.

Clerical came next... and that never materialised either.

He eventually ended up retiring as a Royal Gibraltar Police Superintendent.

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Officer where you learn a great deal, back are today. It was completely different with milio Acris attended the Sacred Heart Grammar School in his teens. there now being a drug squad, fraud squad to the CID and moving around again as you’re approached to take on different Sensing he was thrown in with a and other specialised units. “Becoming a slightly brainier lot he opted for police officer was really my first job which jobs. “I became a sergeant and spent I found uplifting. I spent some time as six years in the CID which was the job I the Technical College in Queensway, got loved most, and in 1992 was promoted to a ‘reserve man’ for callouts and the like, himself a few O Levels and moved on to Inspector, so I was back in unithat ill-fated engineering apprenticeship. and learnt a lot from office work form in charge of a shift of about “That’s true, and the clerical job came as typing and so on, seeing what "Looking a result of my father working in was going on behind 30 officers, a responsibility where back, I’d like the scenes. But I always you become more of a manager. the Ministry of Defence at North to think I "Me joining Looking back, I’d like to think I had my sights on Front and managing to get me was always the police was always approachable with an promotion, unlike other in. I got the job but never went approachwas anothopen-door policy as an enforcer.” to work because it was in the officers who were quite able with an er world mid 70s during the CPSA clerical happy remaining as they open-door beyond his were, and that was fine union lockout seeking parity with As is the case in a number of the UK. At about the same time professions, wanting to become policy as an expectations." for them. I learnt that the best route when I enquired about becoming a poa policeman is not just securing enforcer" seeking promotion lice cadet, following that, once I a job for yourself, it’s a vocation, was 18, applied to become a police officer was to move to the Criminal and Emilio poses the question, “Why stay and went on to serve for 38 years.”

Investigation Department (CID) and that’s if you don’t really have it in you?” Even what I did.” in a reasonably calm and safe place like Gibraltar, being a policeman does have its 58 year old Emilio tells me joining the po‘moments’ “Oh yes, for a start you run the lice was another world beyond his expecDetective Acris moved from unit to unit risk where you might become unpopular tations. At the time of entering the force within the force: back on the beat or ‘on shift,’ as a Community Constable, Court and nobody likes you and they show it there were no specialised units as there 50

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life when you get your car damaged because maybe you reported or arrested someone for whatever reason. The trouble we had during the confiscating of the fast launches in the mid 90s is certainly one to highlight, working non-stop for a whole weekend not being allowed to go “Why stay home and sleeping on the floor if you don’t at the station ready to go out really have it again in full riot gear. Aside from in you?” the setting alight of a police car which was quite impacting on arrival at the scene, not knowing if there were officers still inside - luckily there were not - and damage to property, we’d find knuckle dusters,

service! Gibraltar is small, but there is a lot to attend to and a police officer to my mind, is a police officer 24 hours a day.”

Perhaps an important factor not to forget also, about serving as a police officer in our little Gibraltar, is that everyone knows everyone else and sticky situations can sometimes arise!

So Inspector Acris continued his move up the ranks which was his intention in seeking promotion when joining.

He became Chief Inspector, then

Emilio Acris, first from right wooden clubs with nails in them and allsorts in certain individuals’ cars and elsewhere ready to harm the officers or whoever. And there are other situations that come up every now and then.”

"You run the risk where you might become unpopular and they show it when you get your car damaged because you reported or arrested someone."

Emilio remembers the days when the Royal Navy came in much greater numbers than today and Irish Town was a sea of white hats with sailors in uniform not in civilian clothing as they come ashore today. There was also more military serving on the Rock then, so the trouble that often ensued with so many men in town drinking meant another, potentially unpleasant task for the police. “But I remember in those days fights were fist fights and a lot of pushing and shoving only through drink.

Today you have to look out for knives and other weapons because of other issues and grievances making the incidents more serious and potentially much more dangerous for officers attending the incident.”

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"Gibraltar is small, but there is a lot to attend to."

readily come to mind when comparing with police forces in the UK and other countries are the responsibilities undertaken by the force on the Rock. Emilio reminds us, “When some raise the issue about there never being a policeman to be seen in town, it has to be realised officers are engaged in other duties. EU Legislation and other tasks take time to put into practice, work that needs to be sorted out. We have responsibility for an airport, a frontier, a port with its marinas and commercial entry points which also means having a Marine Unit and these days looking after more security - detection has been successful in the past - so there’s so much there that other police forces don’t have to dedicate manpower to and not forgetting that years ago we also used to man the ambulance

Detective Chief Inspector back in the CID, was Superintendant in charge of a Division and also served as Head of Special Branch.

Security, in the current climate, I would imagine always being high on the agenda.

Today, although retired, Supt. Emilio Acris tells me he still pops in to Police HQ to do a little work requiring his knowledge and is pleased to comply. After all, ‘Once a policeman, always a policeman!’

“For my part that is so true. I’ve assisted in situations a number of times when I’ve been off duty. As far as it concerns me, my police values are strongly held and I’ve found my time in the Force very gratifying.

I have no regrets!”

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LOST WORLD: SECRETS OF A WORLD HERITAGE SITE This month we speak to authors and family members Stewart, Geraldine and Clive Finlayson of the Gibraltar Museum, who presented their new book, Lost World: Secrets of a World Heritage Site, at last year’s Gibraltar Literary Festival. It is described as ‘a lavishly illustrated coffee table book that will highlight the values of the Gorham’s Cave Complex UNESCO World Heritage Site’ and will tell the story of Gibraltar’s heritage and wildlife through a series of stunning photographs. From excavations to artefacts, fossils to landscapes – this one is a treat for the eyes.

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he book is an attractive collection of nature pictures; what were the practical challenges of photographing fauna and sometimes flora if perched on accessible rocks? (For example, were you made to wait for hours or days for certain birds to fly over Gibraltar as part of their migrations?)

the right picture. Our photographs have involved a lot of background research and have taken us to worlds of extreme conditions. For example, when you see the photographs of the Snowy Owls you may not realise that they involved spending long, arduous hours over many days at temperatures of -30 oC.

Each picture has its difficulties – some far greater than others.

What were the practical challenges in working so close as a family? Is the rule ‘don’t bring your work home’ upheld in the household?

With regards to migration in Gibraltar, it has involved many hours waiting on cliffs to get the right images. This can involve waiting for the right wind, and light conditions, and the chance of getting the bird to come where you are.

People often tell us “Wow, what a great picture! You must have a fantastic camera!” What people don’t realise is how many hours we have spent without a camera, studying the subject, in order to get

It can sometimes be difficult of course, and when we disagree, it can take the form of a lot of discussions when no-one wants to give way – but in the end, we have found that because we are so used to each other, we often think along the same lines, and that when it comes to our work, our ideas are very much in tune.

This book took a lot of planning, so we spent many hours putting our ideas

together. Part of the ‘problem’ was not so much what to put in, but what to leave out! It is a good thing that we can eventually come to a consensus, although at times, it was not that easy.

The rule ‘don’t bring your work home’ is just not applicable in our case – we have lived and breathed our work for so long, it is part of our lives.

Regarding the milk tooth found last summer; have further investigations been carried out?

Yes, it is in the process of being studied and we will reveal the information as it becomes available.

If Gibraltar was home to Neanderthals for so many millennia how come only two skulls have unearthed? Where would you expect to find others? Did Neanderthals have necropolises?

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There is evidence that they had burial practices, but nothing like necropolises.

You should bear in mind that 80% of the Neanderthal territory is now submerged as a result of sea level rise 10,000 years ago. Add to that the fact that they didn’t always live in caves, the thousands of years that have elapsed, and the fact there were many scavenging animals around at the time, it is actually quite good going that we have three finds in a place as small as Gibraltar. The passage of time takes its toll.

A year on, what scientific interest has the heritage site raised, and how has it done economically in terms of visitors?

Have further advancements been made during the last excavations?

We are amazed at the interest that has been generated. We have only just opened the visitor site, so it is too early to say, but we do have a long waiting list to visit the actual caves themselves.

Unfortunately, this is subject to a strict annual quota – as you can imagine, we just cannot have thousands of people walking into a sensitive archaeological site because of the damage that it would cause.

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Tell us a little about your scientific adventure starting as ornithologists; Clive and Geraldine, how did your love for birds make you fall in love?

Right from the moment when we met, we have been working on our shared passion which is not just ornithology, but science in general. We are both naturally curious people, in awe of nature and its secrets.

We brought Stewart along with us from a very early age, and it clearly rubbed off.

Stewart; what do birds and bats mean in Gibraltar’s popular culture and history and how does it contrast from day to night? What is the relationship between man and nature in Gib back in time?

As far back as the 1700s, when no-one understood anything about migration, and it was still thought that Swallows hibernated in the mud at the bottom of ponds, observations made in Gibraltar of these swallows flying past in large numbers led to the idea that they might be moving through to avoid the winter further north.

Unfortunately, we have not been so enlightened about bats, and these have been declining all across Europe in the last few decades.

On ecology in Gibraltar in past and present; what steps should we take to appreciate and preserve biodiversity?

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This is a complex subject. A very positive step forward was last year’s Calpe conference on the subject of ‘rewilding’.

Certainly, bringing back species that once lived here is an exciting prospect, but we must first ensure that the conditions that made them leave in the first place, have now been addressed.

How long has it taken you to produce this book, and why? Have you chosen this point in time for a reason?

Is it going to be the first episode of a series, as it were, or more of a magnum opus?

This book has taken us about 10 years to produce. Nothing is ever finished – even now, we have images of species that are not featured in the book, and which were also here in the Ice Ages. We continue to publish on many fronts, and as our rich caves produce more finds, we suspect that there will be a lot more publications to come.

As it stands, we are currently working on a very exciting discovery which, for reason of journal embargo, we cannot disclose: watch this space!

To purchase a copy of the book, please visit The Gibraltar Museum or email shop@gibmuseum.gi.

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RHIZOCEPHALAN MARINE PARASITES Parasites are a fact of life, yet, our coastal region seems relatively free of them. Or is it?

Understanding our local parasites is key to gauging the health of our marine ecosystem. Here we investigate one of the most bizarre, the Rhizocephalans; a small barnacle with a very manipulative streak.

BY LEWIS STAGNETTO, THE NAUTILUS PROJECT

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ronment is full of parasitic organisms. It is that some predators could be considered ll living organisms require a important indicator of the positive health source of energy to maintain parasites and this requires slightly more of an ecosystem to have a wide diversity being alive. Take that source of clarification to our working definition. energy away and the organism of parasites even though we tend to think of their presence as negative. Here is an simply dies. Plants are autotrophs and A predator consumes its nutrients with full example of a local parasite and its unique produce their energy, sugar, from the intension of killing its prey. By contrast, it lifestyle choices. light energy they collect through their is not in the interest of parasites to kill off leaves. This process is commonly known their prey at all, after all, they are getting as photosynthesis. Consumers, free daily meals! There is a third Barnacles form part of the Subphylum on the other hand, eat their group of organisms which do kill Crustacea and are related to common It is not energy, with primary consumers shore crabs. They are sessile off their host, normally in the being herbivorous and secondary animals which form colonies on as a side effect, and It lacks interest of consumers being omnivorous any suitably submerged surface these are known as appendages, parasites to or simply carnivorous. For the parasitoids. The best and the worst that can be said for internal kill off their classical model of ecosystems any way to consider this them is that they are incredibly organs, animal you can think of would fall abrasive to our skin. But, one its to imagine a sliding prey at all, muscles and somewhere within this category; scale, predators on the type of barnacle, Rhizocephalan, after all, have almost enter parasites. lacks appendages, internal left, full parasites on the they are no nervous organs, muscles and have almost right and parasitoids getting free sitting in the middle. It no nervous system. The name ‘A parasite is an organism that system. daily really is a sliding scale literally means “root head” and lives on a host and derives its numeals! the female rhizo larva is ready to settle on and the animal chosen detertrients from it’ - a good working mines where it lies on that scale. host within days of being born. definition that I will use within this article. Anyone reading that statement carefully though would quickly realise As with any ecosystem, the marine enviFemales inject themselves into crabs or 56

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if they were its own eggs. But what about prawns through the openings in the shell the action is in fact releasing thousands of the males I hear you say? Rhizocephalan where the fine hairs protrude. They make new parasite larvae into the water column. their way into their lymphatic system already has that covered. After tapping into These larvae will be ready to parasitize where they grow and take over the hosts the brains of the crab, it tricks them into more crabs within a few days and so the bodily functions. Eventually, both male and thinking they are all female hence invoking cycle repeats. female behaviours like egg brooding. In female crabs will be sterilised by the rhizo this respect this parasite is fairy unique as an energy saving measure. After all, the So fortunately, we are not shore crabs and parasite wants as many nutrients as possiwith respect to how much it actually takes are therefore safe from such a terror, right? ble for itself. To avoid predation, over the hosts bodily functions Actually, as it turns out scientists from the Eventually, and bends it to serve its own it will take over the crab’s motility University of Bergen have found that this purposes. system and head for deeper the female parasite is evolving at an incredible rate waters to ensure that it survives and new species were found inhabiting becomes long enough to reproduce.

The male rhizocephalan sharks. After some careful work it so large is attracted by the body appears that the parasite is now that she Could they of the female bulging Without any specific mouth replicating what it was doing to erupts out make the out of the crab and parts, the Rhizocephalan literally crabs within its new-found host. of the hosts jump into a fuses with her. This drinks all the nutrients it requires This opens up the question of abdomen human host? allows the female to for its own growth from a root how adaptable this parasite could and entices like structure which it grows fertilize her eggs and possibly be. Could they make she then moves the host crab inside its host. Eventually, the the jump into a human host? It is highly males to her. back to shallow waters where she unlikely at present but that being considfemale becomes so large that invokes the crab to release its eggs, or her she erupts out of the hosts abdomen and ered, if a family member starts acting a bit eggs in actual fact. Even though the crab entices males to her. Throughout this strange on the beach this summer it might instinctively feels that’s they are spawning period the host crab acts as if they are be worth checking them out for a possible pregnant and will care for the parasite as the reality could not be more different as Rhizocephalan infection!

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GIB TALKS The anecdotal, the personal, and the light-hearted.

Here are some of this year's speakers and their spectrum of subjects.

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DAYA DEWFALL is a health professional, daughter, sister, wife, mum and very proud granny. She currently works in Public Health, having previously worked as a Staff Nurse in the ICU and PCC. During her time at the PCC, she took on and completed a master’s degree in Allergy from the University of Southampton in 2013. Prior to her career in nursing, she worked at a local fast food restaurant for 11 years - her first degree was in Hotel Management and Catering Technology.

‘The Plastic Brain’ Neurologist TREVELAYNE FALLER tells the audience how to be brainier. “The Plastic Brain” explores the ongoing research on the ability of the human brain to rewire itself if a neural pathway were to be disrupted, because of injury for example, when the brain would have to carve out an alternative neural pathway to continue carrying out an acquired behaviour.

“The human brain is an extremely dynamic organ,” she explains. “It contains billions of neural pathways which connect and relay messages back and forth between multiple sub-structures. These neural connections are what allow us to move, think and feel as we do. Every time we think in a certain way, practice a specific task or feel a specific emotion, these neural pathways are also strengthened. For example, when learning a new behaviour, a new neural pathway is carved out in the brain. The more we repeat that behaviour, the stronger that neural connection becomes.”

“I have lived in many parts of the world; I was born in Ghana where I spent the first 10 years of my life, then moved to India. Almost 30 years ago, my path led me to beautiful Gibraltar. There is so much talk about migrants and immigrants, their struggles, and how lives are turned around in seconds. I was initially approached by Mark Montegriffo to take part in this year’s GibTalks and hey presto, I received an email from Julian thanking me for agreeing to take part.

I wasn’t sure if I actually was at the time. Whilst a lot of my professional and private life involves communicating with people, I was still nervous about this public presentation. Nonetheless, I decided it was time to step out of my ‘comfort zone’ and plunge in.

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I have chosen to talk about my trajectory as a migrant; sharing my views and personal experiences in the hope of engaging the audience and illustrating that each of us is in some way a migrant, a traveller on a journey. My life certainly is fluid and remains in continuous movement. events, classic or modern. His GibTalks contribution starts from a ‘fateful day in May’ when he took a risk, as he explains: “Perhaps if I hadn’t taken that risk, I wouldn’t be doing this for a living and looking back at my journey so far and what else may come or not come. I am so glad I did. It is very important for me to get my message across to those unsure about taking the risk but - trust me - it is well worth taking it in the end.”

Scientists used to believe that our brains stopped developing once we reached adulthood and these neural pathways became hard-wired. However the good news is that research has shown that the brain retains its ability to alter itself well into adulthood. “Our brain is constantly updating and changing its responsiveness and connectivity, based on experience.”

The purpose of Trevelayne’s talk is to make the concept of neuroplasticity accessible and explore the potential of utilising the brain’s capacity to rewire itself in order to find new ways to heal injured brains, or enhance the skill in healthy ones.

There are many moments that one feels foreign even in a place of familiarity and comfort, so being a national from another country or being of a certain colour certainly doesn’t make anyone less or more than what they are; we cannot put boundaries around people for their origin without looking at the richness and diversity of cultures and histories they bring to the world.

‘Impossible Is Nothing’ DAVID DIAZ is one of the main promoters of the renaissance of the Gibraltar Live Music Society and the presenter of a weekly podcast about local music, as well as an all-round music guru, ever-present at Gibraltar live music

He sums his journey under the Nike motto he borrows for the title of his speech: “The road has been tough and does come with its own bumps, crashes and a lack of belief but once you get going, you will arrive at the destination.

When someone is born into a passion then it is just inevitable that somehow they will end up following their passion for a living. In May 2014 I took what I feel has been my biggest leap yet when I launched a podcast interviewing those local musicians I knew. Unemployment got the better of me, so what better way to overcome the boredom?”

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scene Mark has co-authored two books with his son Matthew: Walk to the Rock, and On Ancient Trails – A Pilgrimage from Gibraltar to Jerusalem. Since 2015 he has managed to raise £52,000 for charity between his walks and his books.

When not walking he can be found exploring mountain areas, cooking and blowing his bellowing bagpipes.

‘Sandals of Fire’ MARK RANDALL is a retired Lieutenant Colonel and former Commanding Officer of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment with twenty-six years military service. An avid long distance hiker with over a dozen Caminos de Santiago under his belt, his footwear of choice is the humble sandal. He has a Masters in International Liaison and Communication and was awarded the Gibraltar Medal of Distinction for services to his Regiment and Gibraltar.

In April 2016 Mark embarked on a journey that would take him from his home all the way to Jerusalem itself.

Nearly two years later he is still coming to terms – not just with the enormity of the pilgrimage itself, but with the profound effects it has had on him physically and emotionally. “The daily hardships of walking the ancient pilgrim paths of Europe are not for the faint hearted,” he says.

“The Way is a religious and spiritual pilgrimage where many find solace, find hope for their future. They find the path in life that they want to follow,” and what best platform than GibTalks for Mark to engage with the people who have supported him on his endeavours and to share some of his experiences and the most profound teachings of the Way.

‘Finding Peace in Chaos’ Yogi, spiritual guide, author, lecturer and Integral Yoga Centre founder NALANIE CHELLARAM is making the most of her fifteen minute slot to reveal the secret of ‘Finding Peace in Chaos’: “We are surrounded by noise.

We are surrounded by fear. When we listen to the news, all we hear about are wars, bombs, destruction, earthquakes, floods and climate change and we are not even sure anymore about what is true and what isn’t! Families are breaking apart. We are so busy trying to make money to buy the good things in life, but never seem to have time to enjoy the money we make. We spend too much time on social media and save little time for face-to-face quality time with friends and family. We have no time to sit and be, no time to think about our lives in a meaningful way. We hear about suicide cases and people dying of cancer on a daily basis. There are too many people suffering from anxiety attacks and depression. Where has the peace gone? What is happening? How can we get out of this vicious circle?”

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There is a way out, she reassures her audience: “The Buddhist calls it mindfulness. The Yogi calls it meditation.

The naturalist calls it contemplation.

Religions call it prayer. By learning how to observe our thoughts, by taking time out to watch Life from a neutral point of view, we see the world from a totally different perspective and then find our solution to peace.”

‘Looking at Life’ ANA LYDIA ARMSTRONG DANINO is the author of two books of memoirs, ‘The Snake and the Tiger’ and its sequel ‘Chasing Rainbows’, in which she recalls her life in Africa and South America as well as her travels around the world, including the Far East, and her career as a sophisticated entertainer.

Her Gib Talk is titled ‘Looking at Life’ and draws inspiration from her childhood in the Danino’s household that she shared with a number of sisters and the much-wished-for kid brother: “When I helped my father, I could have used my salary for anything but I chose dance and education. I was ambitious and knew that without education you cannot go far.” Having marked her 68th wedding anniversary milestone with husband Jack, she elaborates: “When I was young, I did not think that just marrying and having a family was enough.

Life had more to offer! I tried to turn the hard happenings into experience for the future, and I always relied on the concept that I could do everything I wanted to. I learnt my lessons and am still learning every day.”

Her outlook is “life is what you make it, as long as you don’t hurt anyone in the pursuit of your happiness”. She accepted the challenge of delivering a talk at this year’s GibTalks to share her experiences with others and to prove how it is up to each one of us to make life as interesting and as good as they desire.

“Life is a continuous struggle and the most important thing is to be positive, and achieve your best in your lifetime.

I tried to surpass all the harsh corners and make the best of the opportunities offered to me.”

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scene Representation of the People Act on 6th February 1918 - an Act that was to reverberate worldwide with women in other countries making their case for universal suffrage. Still, even with the passing of the People Act, women did not have equal enfranchisement in the electoral system until a decade later. In Gibraltar this happened in 1947, the same year in which Dorothy Ellicott became the first woman in Gibraltar to hold a governmental position.

‘What’s biology got to do with it?’

DR JENNIFER BALLANTINE PERERA’s GibTalk will offer factual data whilst also setting out how far we have come down the cultural road to understand if women are still determined by, as Simone de Beauvoir outlined in her 1949 book, The Second Sex, their biological function.

"2018 marks 100 years of the Vote in the UK with the passing of the

"Opportunities for women have proliferated broadly in the past seven decades, at least in many parts of the Western world, but the fact that we are still debating gender equality across a number of areas raises all sorts of questions as to the terms under which equality is couched. Certainly issues remain in respect to equal pay and in the underrepresentation of women in a number of professional, corporate and political settings, but the reinforcement of cultural norms in societies such as Gibraltar also go some way in underpinning views on gender that, once normalised as societal values, become difficult to dislodge."

‘The hero and the villain within’ KENNETH CASTIEL is an entrepreneur, CEO, motivational speaker and high performance coach who began his career selling books door-to-door and went on to found one of the leading home grown financial services corporations in Gibraltar. After thirteen years, he sold the company and attained financial freedom at the age of forty-three. He is a Life Member of the Million Dollar Round Table, the premiere international association of financial professionals. He has embarked on cutting-edge education at the highest level in the fields of NLP and archetypal branding and returned to university at the age of fifty-nine to graduate through the school of psychotherapy and psychology, with a master’s in creative leadership from one of the UK's top universities. Kenneth is the eighty-first civilian in the world to skydive from 30,000 feet, the cruising altitude of a commercial jet.

Kenneth’s talk touches upon topics discussed in his forthcoming book The Hero and the Villain Within. “Society tells us that there is only one way to live: succeed, grow old, get sick and die. After a certain point, we are told, change is neither pru62

dent nor possible. But society is wrong.

It is always the right time, no matter when to win at the game of life. To make changes and create a financially sound, physically fit and psychologically fulfilling life. Our social conditioning passed down from generation to generation forces us to participate in a collective fiction that often leads to limitation and fear. Through our inherited values and beliefs, we make agreements about who we are and what we are capable of doing; whether or not we are worthy; and who we think we should be. To be able to win at the game of life we need to break through the disempowering agreements we’ve made based on these invented notions.”

‘Urban Planning Vision’ As an architect and urban planner, CARMEL KHALILIAN recognises that our urban planning and built environment hold a symbiotic relationship with people, but rarely are people involved in the planning process to a sufficient degree. “Because history and culture are cross-cutting and affect all aspects of sustainable development, it is crucial to ensure a common understanding of the need to preserve our built environment,” she explains. “This must be achieved whilst also encouraging development that complements and enhances the existing built fabric of Gibraltar, supported by a strong planning framework together with a comprehensive management strategy and appropriate support mechanisms.

People need to be placed at the heart of the agenda since sustainable development brings together the environment, people and development with the focus being clearly on people whose well-being is the ultimate goal of all development policies.”

For this reason, Carmel started Planning Vision with her business partner Joanna Jadczak. In her talk, she will expand on the aims of her professional endeavors to make urban life more sustainable and people friendly: “Planning Vision is dedicated to providing independent and impartial town planning advice to property developers and private individuals, as well as concerned residents and community groups throughout the property development cycle. Efficient use and management of our resources are one of our key focuses towards meeting the demands, needs and requirements of our people. We strive to ensure that planned developments are not only acceptable, but also desirable, sustainable and of high quality, thus creating sustainable places for people to live, work and play.”

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LOVE AND THE WORLD IN FICTION Love and music have been intertwined since the legend of Apollo.

This month, we reflect on an enchanting album, which features heavily in the soundtrack of my first ‘real’ relationship.

BY MARK MONTEGRIFFO

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hile travelling last summer, I met a girl in Tel Aviv who, after a Spring of loss and ongoing grief, made me appreciate things that I had not thought an awful lot of prior. One of those things was related to music, as we soon set up a playlist for finding comfort in during the trials of a long-distance relationship. Feeling like I ought to add some local music to our little Spotify project, I shared the talent of Jeremy Perez from his ‘Rich Man’s World’ EP and, because I had recently seen him play an intimate set at the John Macintosh Hall, so too were the songs of Elie Massias added to the melodious soup that was our playlist. Miranda and I agreed that I had stumbled upon a gem.

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feeling. How Elie Massias can do that in 40 release of Elie Massias’ ‘World in Fiction’. minutes – I am unsure.

The album has an ethereal quality to it, perhaps owing to the stripped back instrumentation in some of the tracks We can begin to break it down by listening or the elegant harmonies penned and to the opening track, ‘The Passing’, where performed by Massias. The songs Elie is conscious to something vary in genre classification, with ominous affecting a scene of The songs ‘Olive Mountain’ beginning by tranquillity: “Evening falls/On this of Elie sounding like a folk song about border town/Plagued with histoMassias love and spirituality, contrastry/A vague future of uncertainty”. ing with the far more jazzier ‘5 Prophetic perhaps, if Elie was added to the Hours’ (the song itself is roughly referring to Brexit... but equally melodious 5 and a half minutes) prior to the it could have been written at the soup that track. Ambiguous too are the time of heightened contraband was our themes behind some songs, with and threats of direct rule over a playlist. lyrics ranging from the nostalgic 90s Gibraltar. The song though, sights of the Gibraltarian town to is principally about bereavement: verging on the prophetic and abstract. The “Generous eyes/Innocent smiles/In a album, like love, feels whole, yet difficult to colonial house/They mourn an unexpected place your finger on what is causing that passing”. The song was taking me back to GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

music Mountain’, “Nobody will understand the bond between us”. It is time to embrace the freedom of love, even if it means leaving the beauty of your place of upbringing so “When the clouds clear up/We’ll run astray in the garden filled with loving” which recalls the talk of Eden in ‘Susan’.

The great escape commences in the final and title track in the shade of the world’s absurdity, as they are “Wading through a world in fiction/So far removed across the bay/Like Joe would say/So far removed, misunderstood”, heading to realise their love in the Promised Land, where I met mine. Not Jerusalem, but Tel Aviv; a city that is at once European and also Middle Eastern, simultaneously comfortably Mediterranean Gibraltar and other-worldly adventurous. is a rock Reminiscent of Gibraltar and through perhaps Tarifa with its gorgeous changing sunsets, miles of golden beach, times. It is and diversity worthy of consistent undoubtedly boasting, summer in Tel Aviv was cosy and the ideal mix of home and abroad nostalgic, for me; perfect for love.

but unmoved and stuck.

Massias, an orthodox Jew, fittingly uses Jerusalem as the destination of his escape, where simple things do seem more colourful. A destination, of course, with the paradox of indefatigable conflict and controversy, but also of steadiness and permanence, physically represented by the For that ancient Jerusalem stone that constitutes lonely we get to ‘Close To You’: “Let me the time I lost my cousin Jamie the old city. As the world saw last year period, my glide through changing seasons/ and, Elie’s strong falsetto cries of when Jerusalem hit international mainAll this with you”. It is in ‘She’ a “distant haze” reminds me that home was a stream headlines, nobody is indifferent to where Elie finally identifies a I was unable to join my family in Jerusalem. And it was another Elie, Elie distant haze. mature love that opens one’s grieving in Gibraltar – for that Wiesel, who alluded to the notion that the mind: “And through her eyes she lonely period, my home was a opposite of love is indifference... or The comes to see/Thoughts of all my senseless distant haze.

Lumineers who penned the line in their realities” and “Simple things seem more co- lyrics to ‘Stubborn Love’. It appears to be a lourful with each word/Bringing on images Dark days and nights at a UK university is similar paradox that governs a successful from a different world”. something that many young Gibraltarians love, where there is a desire to escape, will sympathise with, as they will with the travel, and enjoy the several benefits of It appears that we are back in Gibraltar for saga of love and travel that Elie embarks a romantic companionship, but equally a ‘5 Hours’, but with a profound on with his following tracks on stubborn desire to roll with the clashes as observation: “Stripped the album. ‘Susan’ is about a any pair of individuals is bound to Equally and burnt, this lifeless boy’s first forays into innocent, be confronted with. it could Gibraltar monument/In contrabut unrequited love. It takes us have been is a rock diction to the seas that through “Comedy Street” and The album then, by my interprewritten at through surround me”. Gibraltar “that old cafe where the ladies all tation at least, appears to see the time of changing is a rock through changdrink their tea”. Susan’s sweater love as an elevation beyond the heightened times. It is ing times. It is undoubtclinging to her thighs is reminis‘real’; the heightening of sensual edly cosy and nostalgic, cent of an innocence and simcontraband undoubtedly experience. Recognising exisbut unmoved and stuck. plicity, as warm as the scene of tence for what it is, institutions cosy and and threats Home is caring but Gibraltar that Elie paints: “Susan, for what they are, and transcendof direct rule nostalgic, tired: “By the village where did you go?/You showed over a 90s but unmoved ing the limitations of the physical the fishing boats have me an Eden then took it away”. environment one happens to Gibraltar. and stuck. returned/The men wear He manages to answer Susan inhibit to fully appreciate the hearty smiles/With in the next track, ‘Sand Dunes’, emancipated bond of a young eyes up to their knees”. Love is new and which cuts a different tone musically and couple in love. 20 years on, Elie Massias there to be explored somewhere far from lyrically: “She does not know mankind”, gets to the heart of the emotion that the judgment of home because, in ‘Olive he claims. But still there is a longing when knows no time and ignores no place.

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STRAIT LOVE THE LAST FANDANGO Rainbow-heart novel heel-stomps on prejudice and disability

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is a well-travelled Thailand-based techhe Rock of Gibraltar features in the changes from a sweltering hilltop Northnical translator by profession, but this is opening paragraph of businessman African village to the Andalusian countryhis maiden voyage on the rollercoaster Robin Hellaby’s debut side, from the intricacy of the novel The Last Fandango Alhambra, to the neon of creative writing. The novel is The story of the Glasgow nightborn from the realization that he published by Wishful Thinking.

Yet its is being reached his mid-forties without club scene on a crisp The paperback format of the blurred adapted having truly loved someone, book was launched at Sacarello’s, January night. Despite lines make into a play unknowing how to be trusting, after the e-book climbed the a looming sense of it hard to Amazon charts in just two weeks, foreboding that doesn’t giving, compromising. “After a that literary pigeonhole allow the protagonists breakup, I started writing down at an intimate affair on a cold agent Sandie feelings and ideas to achieve time to settle down and November evening, when it was it in a single Lenton some clarity in my grieving relax in the lives they’ve also announced that the story genre, Forrest and process and I soon realised how is being adapted into a play that chosen for themselves, whether her team it was mostly my fault if the relaliterary agent Sandie Lenton the story is all but romance, hope to see claustrophobic and yet tionship failed. My notes collated Forrest and her team hope to see adventure, premiering in its blurred lines make it into a story of romance, passion, premiering in the West End as drama or prejudice, intrigue, manipulation, early as this summer. the West End hard to pigeonhole it in even horror. a single genre, whether deceit, heartbreak, joy, rejection, as early as dejection, and eventually murder, romance, adventure, The shrewd reader of this book this summer. drama or even horror (the shrewd prison, suicide, disability… but most of all, will indeed be enticed by the reader will quickly rule out chickabout true love, with no strings attached.” curiosity of learning how the flick, though). playwright manages to convey within the In fact the novel describes – definitely inconstraints of a stage the sense of the sky novative and bold in this era of pink, fuchliterally being the limit that pervades this Robin Hellaby (a nom de plume to shield the innocent) is not new to typing, for he sia, purple and every shade of indigo porn book from cover to cover, as the scene 66

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literature publicists can dream of - a decade-long homosexual relationships in the run-up narrative, carried out in feuilleton fashion, platonic love story that works against all decade to same-sex marriage legalisation. especially in the descriptions of choral odds, against realistic expectations as well scenes of bereavement or amusement, like as against bigotry and façades of bourgeois Women in speaking roles are few and far the Scottish funeral shortly followed by respectability. Of course it isn’t Scottish clubbing. Stylistically, the account between and their emotionsmooth sailing, or the four hunis delivered through plenty of dialogue al depths are regrettably left The story dred pages of this tome would that sometimes mirrors lilts and bilingualunexplored, even when they starts with have no reason to circulate, but ism; however, emotions and thoughts are are pivotal to the action, like true love conquers all, and for it mostly expressed verbally, with the mature calligraphic wallflower Beth who an airplane the church bell tolls. characters as articulate as news anchors morphs from moody rebel teentrip across and the young punctuating their serrated ager to taciturn efficient hotel the Strait rhythm with interjections and exclamation From carnal infatuation, the manager, to support the object of of Gibraltar marks, while the description of non-verbal protagonist’s sentiments for the her childhood friendship, puppy to reach a communication is minimal and relegated to young and breathtakingly beaulove and unconditional adult fictitious the dance floor, where a torrent of emotiful wannabe flamenco dancer devotion, or the ginger-haired city-state tions pours out the heel-stomping frenzy. half his age steadily evolve into Junoesque landlady who comes Figures of speech are sprinkled located a grey area of idealistic love and across more as libertine eclectically in the level-headed self-denial that well fit the classic than liberated in her somewhere The Last syntax, to originate atmospheric Roman concepts of patronage cougar prowess with in an Arabic Fandango turns of phrase like ‘the only and adoption, while sexual gratifisub-Saharan escapees. country cloud hanging over our relationmakes cation is sought outside the partOther females are cold ship had the distinct outlines of nership. Written in first person by and calculating, like enjoyable an erect male organ’. a forty-something ordinary English ‘Mister the French Madagascan cynic escapism Blister’ (how Robin describes him) who is gold-digger (an atavistic antipaand indeed content with his retiring life in the Almería thy for ‘les frogs’ slithers through Despite a few faux-pas, such as deserves its backlands and cared for by an unrequited the pages), or busybodies on a the uncalled-for racist stab at dignified and proudly discreet governess and her mission who can either make it Romanians, and the maladroit place in brother, the story starts at the turn of the or break it for the protagonist like turn of a Scottish wake into rainbow Millennium with an airplane trip across the larger-than-life ex-schoolgirl farce, The Last Fandango makes the Strait of Gibraltar to reach a fictitious lesbian who, despite meaning enjoyable escapism and indeed heart city-state located somewhere in an Arabic well and dispensing sensible deserves its dignified place in literature. country that could be Morocco, Algeria or advice, still sounds pushy and rainbow heart literature. even Egypt, according to the author. This insolent; or the petite, taciturn prim-anddetail raises the question with the reader proper military wife and piano teacher who about why one should cross the straits to seals the protagonists’ destiny through one travel from Almería to Algeria rather than gossipy slip of the tongue. Village life is flying or crossing by ferry from Malaga, but kept together by the monolithic presence they will gladly accept the poetic licence of a nonagenarian Scandinavian virago, ex that allows sneaking Gibraltar in the mix. spy and ex war hero, rumour has it, and If it wasn’t clearly stated on Page One that honorary lifelong chief, who could comthe year is 1999, you would be fortably be a man and nobody forgiven for assuming it is at least would ever spot the difference It discloses a century earlier, not withstand(her official title is Headman and the insider’s ing airplane tickets and mobile her voice modulates on baritone, point of phones, for the international after all!), later revealed to be the view on settlement is being trapped in key to somewhat restoring the Victorian censorship that constatus quo after one storm in a homosexual dones and encourages arbitrary teacup spiralled into life-shatterrelationships interventions against alleged in the run-up ing tsunami. debauchery purported behind decade to closed doors.

Alex, meant to be just the tragic same-sex catalyst for the decisive encounmarriage The main characters are a felter between Peter and his cocky legalisation. lowship of British, middle-aged, (in more than one way) protégé, rich and powerful men who seem stays etched in our minds as the to live by Grecian pederasty rules, in their one who got away, the right lover for a pursuit of barely overage lovers, the more balanced pursuit of happiness. Of course exotic the better, usually bisexual and drama-prone Peter wouldn’t settle for the actually pledged to stable heterosexual easy road to his twilight years, and opts for relationships, just to save appearances. To silencing his frustrated fatherhood wailings some readers, this breezy conscious couby letting himself being used by a salaRobin Hellaby pling and uncoupling may ring unrealistic, cious, capricious, ambitious prima-donna with all caution and political correctness escaping paternal intransigence with the thrown to the wind despite the efforts spectacular leap of faith that only fandanVisit TheLastFandango.com to purchase your of the ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’ go can allow. paperback or e-book copy. Paperbacks are handing out condoms at shindigs, yet it also stocked in Gibraltar and Sabinillas, priced discloses the insider’s point of view on A nod to Aestheticism runs throughout the £12.99 or €15.

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ZIPP BY UNIFY

Unify: making a difference about difference

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may find harder to memorise. the issues of sexism and homophobia beith the slogan ‘better together’ printed on their fore their minds can provide fertile ground colour-mismatched T-shirts, for these weeds’ seeds to be sown.

Supported by Minister for Equality Unify - a quintet Samantha Sacramento, the project was of six-formers who earlier in the initially designed by David Hitchcock and This fierce-looking alien will join There year won the award for ‘most later developed by the professional graphic Zipp in a new adventure that, are several innovative product’ at the Young designer the company contracted thanks according to the audience’s lines that Enterprise nationwide contest to the funds budgeted by Holly suggestions, will be highlight promoted their children’s book set in a large city, or Hart and Lauren Olivero, the Zipp how Zipp’s Trips at last Literary Festival. in Gibraltar, or even financial side of the enterprise, cannot take Unify broke the record for youngwhile Josie Cassaglia and Shianne under the ocean to prejudice, it anymore est speakers on the program and Ferrary wrote the story and throw in some environprofiling and and jumps to revealed they are already working surveyed potential readers, adults mental issues for good labelling on the sequel or even the auand children, about how long measure.

Of course the her defence, may stem dio-book, if a joint project with a Unify business partners and how often they would spend while the key from the fellow Young Enterpriser sets sail reading books together and how didn’t unzip about the line to the inability of as smoothly as they hope. they imagined their friendly alien. plot they’ve in mind, entire story getting into but it will most probably is delivered: the other’s follow the same format Their interactive talk encouraged The message portrayed by the “You that afforded success to volunteers from the audience to cute and endearing cartoon shoes, or alienated their debut, a winning design and name the alien who characters is an invitation to not in this case me!” blend of neat graphics, they’d want to be the protagonist only embrace but also encourage spacesuit. rhyming text and a (or co-protagonist) of their secdifference, because that is what ond book on which they expect glossary at the end for the glowmakes the world interesting and worth to start working soon, and which will tackle ing-green words that youngest children meeting and getting to know someone so68

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literature not-like-you. There are several pivotal lines it ever again, so that Zipp, his spaceship in the poem that highlight how prejudice, repaired, can blast up in the stratosphere profiling and labelling may stem from the while Luna bids him farewell standing inability of getting into the other’s between her two dads. This is shoes, or in this case spacesuit. an unexpected ending for most A winning For instance, to the little green blend of neat readers that draws a couple of man lost in her backyard, school‘aws!’ and ‘ahs!’ and perhaps raisgraphics, girl Luna asks if he is an alien, and es an eyebrow with the traditionrhyming he simply replies “No, I am Zipp.” alist, but it is a valid creative extext, and a Well, if you think about it, to this glossary. green-skinned, one-eyed, pointyeared space explorer, the real alien simply is the earthling: it’s a question of perspective!

Disregarding any basic stranger-danger caution and without seeking permission from a responsible adult (but sometimes poetic licences must be taken for the greater good of the moral!), Luna hides Zipp in her bedroom and the morning after, after a close encounter with the house cat, Luna takes him to school, where he hopes to find spare parts to repair his spaceship. She must get there on time to rehearse for the school play so she disguises him as a ghost to smuggle him on the bus, where she is bullied and relegat-

pedient, almost Scheherazade-worthy, to keep us on the lookout for next adventure, reinforced by Zipp inadvertently (or not?) dropping a rocket into our atmosphere.

The whiz-kids told the audience how they considered other products at first, but soon set their minds on a children’s book with a powerful message, because they didn’t want to make a difference just in business but also in mentality. They marketed it on social media, promoted it with their peers and copies can be purchased by contacting them or from ‘Happy Healthy Nails’ in Engineer’s Lane.

ed to the back. It is only at this point that the readers fully realise that Luna is black and the rest of the class white, but their bullying doesn’t dwell solely on racism, since the same ‘popular kids’ are later seen making fun of someone in a wheelchair.

Although Luna aces her part in the play and looks dashing in her costume while ghostly Zipp looms in the background, some girls manage to humiliate her to tears until Zipp cannot take it anymore and jumps to her defence, while the key line to the entire story is delivered, more likely shouted: “You alienated me!” A round of apologies is in order as everyone wells up profusely, hugs and promises not to do GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

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EXPLORING ESTONIA Captivating castles, charming cuisine, chocolate shops and 'Friendship Day'.

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smoked fish; you’re probably unlikely to stonia. A country with a long and landscape that is still very wild. This shows complicated history of being domfind some during the winter but oh, the especially when travelling from town to inated by other nations including summers… The island of Saaremaa in town as it is not uncommon to go past periods of independence (one of particular is also known for its juniper thick uninhabited forests that are rich with bushes – make sure not which finally stuck in 1991) berries and mushrooms in addito leave without having and mouth-watering food that tion to its various furry inhabiMake sure Don’t is a mix of Nordic, Russian, and bought at least one item tants. Don’t however try to ask a not to leave however German cuisine, so expect a lot for your kitchen that local where their special foraging without try to ask a of meat, black bread, and fish in has been hand-carved places are, you may as well be having local where from this particularaddition to anything that can be asking for their firstborn. On the bought at their special ly fragrant bush. In foraged and then later preserved flip side, driving around during least one foraging terms of getting there, by grandmothers in a multitude dusk or dawn is like driving of tins and jars. The population unfortunately, there are around in a safari park – I have item for your places are, is only 1.3 million and the official no direct flights from even had a gigantic moose step kitchen that you may Gibraltar to Tallinn. language is Estonian, although out on the road so stay vigilant has been as well there is a variety of regional diHowever, it is just 2 when travelling! Female deer, for hand-carved be asking flights away either via alects. As an example, I am from some reason, don’t like to run from this for their England, Germany or Saaremaa and quite often some across the road alone. They are particularly firstborn! of the words I use make no sense through Scandinavian always accompanied by either fragrant to people from other areas of the countries. The airport baby deer, adult deer, or a big bush. itself is very close to the city cen- scary looking moose. It’s like ladies leaving country! tre, you can either take the bus, the table - never go alone. walk to a tram stop or get a taxi.

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Hand-carved souvenirs from the juniper bush Kadrioru Loss get yourself a green travel card that will set you back just €2. There is even one in the airport; drop the card off there once you’re done to receive a refund. You can load money on the card, buy a day ticket, a week’s ticket etc. Basically it is similar to the Oyster card system in London. A tip from a local: aim for the door validator immediately as you board to swipe your card against, and grab a hold of something as soon as you can as the train will just go, weather you are ready or not.

The Estonian brown bear called Laulupidu. This is part of the Baltic song festival and in 2003 was included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List, so it is definitely a must-see (during the right season) whether you’re in in Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia. The music event takes place during the summer where only selectively chosen choirs and orchestras get to perform shoulder to shoulder under a big arch called Lauluväljak to masses both on site and via radio and TV broadcasts. In Kihelkonna the locals 72

Another place to check out is the location of the most famous ghost story in Estonia.

It is the one of Valge Daam which translates to the White Lady Quite often and I can promise you that every they sing Estonian has at least heard of either in her. It has been reported that traditional a female figure appears on the garb or in Baptistery’s circular window have formed their own choir and built into the southern wall of even created an event called outfits that Haapsalu Dome Church during Talvelaulupidu, meaning ‘winter have been the full moon nights in August singing party’, and quite often inspired and she has been nicknamed they sing either in traditional by native by the locals as the White Lady. garb or in outfits that have been clothing.

For centuries this woman has inspired by native clothing. revealed herself on the chapel’s window and the legend goes like this: In At the beginning of the 20th century there the Middle Ages, during the reign of Oeselwere 1245 main manors in Estonia so Wiek Bishop, every canon was supposed definitely try to find the time to go and to lead a chaste and virtuous life according see at least one. In Tallinn, a sight to see is to the rules of the monastery. Access of the Kadrioru loss aka The Kadriorg Palace women to the Episcopal Castle which is a Petrine Baroque palace was forbidden by threat of death. built for Catherine I of Russia Grab a hold However it happened so that one

by Peter the Great. The palace of something canon and an Estonian girl fell currently houses the Kadriorg as soon as madly in love with each other.

Art Museum, a branch of the Art you can as As the young people could not Museum of Estonia, displaying stay apart, the canon dressed the the train foreign art from the 16th to the girl up as a boy and brought her 20th century. If you can’t get will just go, to the castle to sing in the choir. enough of the art, type KuMu weather you For long it remained a secret, into your Google Maps and let are ready or but one day the deception was the instructions take you on an not. discovered and the verdict of the art journey lasting for hours and Bishop was harsh: the canon was hours. Community transport in thrown to the castle’s dungeon to starve Tallinn is free if you are a resident in the to death, while the girl was immured alive capital. If not, head to any R-Kiosk and GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

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in the wall of the Baptistery, then under the construction.

Lamenting of the poor woman was heard for several days until she finally silenced. Yet her soul could not find the peace and, as a result, she appears on the Baptistery’s window to grieve for her beloved man already for centuries, and also to prove the immortality of love (valgedaam.ee).

This northern occurrence creates a beautiful ambience with the occasional aurora borealis.

Estonia’s cultural stories are enough to warm the hearts of locals and visitors alike, even in cold February (though perhaps not the girl-buried-alive-into-a-wall part). Let’s instead talk about the weather and how the sun decides to rise super late and sets around 3-4pm. Sounds off-putting? Well, it shouldn’t. This northern occurrence creates a beautiful ambience with the occasional aurora borealis, especially in the old town of Tallinn where the cobbled streets are lit with warm-toned lights, houses are banned from deviating too far from their original build with renovations (great for Instagrams, thank you Government), and the inspiration for wine bars, cafes, restaurants and pubs has been gathered from all over the world so you know you are getting high quality food. For example, in Vapiano they cook your food fresh right in front of you with super speed, and whilst you wait for your pasta or salad to be pieced together from pre-measured portions, you can stay entertained by watching the pizza team hand-stretch dough and toss the bases as high in the air as they possibly can. An extra cherry on top is that on every table there are pots of herbs and it’s not frowned upon to pinch some fresh GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

basil leaves or whatever your heart desires to give your dish that little something-something, Gordon Ramsay style. Just make sure they aren’t actual decorations – I have made that mistake before.

If you are looking for normal prices combined with beautiful surroundings and pub grub, head to Villemi Pubi (Villem’s Pub) and try the cheese schnitzel. It is literally a chunk of cheese that has been rolled around in breadcrumbs and egg. Lift it so that it sits on the chips and THEN cut into it. You’re welcome. However, if your taste buds crave for fine dining or just a great glass of wine recommended by highly trained

Tallinn Old Town in summer

Haapsalu Dome Church

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Restaurant Dominic local chocolate brand “Kalev” or its Finnish is shown to the people in your life (not friend “Karlfazer”. Kalev is a big enough necessarily in a romantic way). You can brand that they have their own chocolate exchange cute notes or cards with your shops where they sell anything your heart friends or spend the day going somewhere may desire. To Estonians this is nice for a meal or for an activity. like Charlie entering Wonka’s This seed is normally planted The old chocolate factory, but more in in kindergartens and schools, belief is that a Main Street shop sort of way. with kids making cards for other the longer A treat one must try there is kids, taking part in raffles and the ride, the marzipan, which you can have so on. Some schools also have a longer the in basically any flavour shape or red theme during this occasion. crops will form that your mind can imagine Students wear a red heart with may it be rum and raisin, in the a number; people write notes grow for the shape of a cat, race car, carrot... addresses to numbers rather year.

Vastlakuklid you get where I’m going with this. than names and pop it into a box, sommeliers, visit Restaurant Lusikas or encouraging children to be kind to one Restaurant Dominic – the latter has a another.

Another important day in February is also variety of dining rooms in a building which Vastlapäev, which this year falls on Sunday was first mentioned in the written word the 11th of February. The traditional Valentine’s Day as a celebration of couples in 1374. As the regulations for foods are pea soup with smoked meat, and their eternal flame tends modifications in the old town hot black tea, and for dessert white buns to come second. This is even And it’s are quite strict, prepare yourself that have had the top cut off reflected in the way the not frowned to be impressed with how they (and set aside), filled generously native adverts are wordupon to For have merged the new with the with whipped cream, topped ed during that time; for pinch some Estonians, old. The restaurant boasts a wine with the cap and dusted with example, some shops fresh basil the 14th of room set to a specific temperaicing sugar. It is mandatory to have tag lines such as leaves or February ture in an addition to a cigar go sledging with your friends or “friendly prices”. Don’t whatever started off as family; the old belief is that the room downstairs. The wine list get me wrong, the itself is updated weekly by the inlonger the ride, the longer the cafes and restaurants your heart ‘Friendship house sommeliers Imre Uussaar crops will grow for the year. Best are covered in a trail of desires Day’ where and Aron Rahu in addition to the to do it on snow, personally I pink and red, and shops to give appreciation seasonally adjusted menu. If that wouldn’t recommend attemptlook like a wayward your dish is shown to hasn’t sold it to you then I don’t ing it on black ground (this is pixie exploded in glitter, that little the people in know what will. what Estonians say when there but romance or lack somethingyour life. should be snow but isn’t), but A thereof isn’t shoved something.

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Kalev Chocolate the capital Tallinn, why not try ice skating?

The ice rink on Harju Street Is surrounded by the scenic buildings of the old town and is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Just bear in mind that it might be a tad crowded as it is in the city centre and easily accessible by everyone.

The key

But how will you survive the to a happy weather? The key to a happy holiday is holiday is LAYERS, and plenty LAYERS, and of them. This may be common plenty of knowledge so I do apologise in them. advance if I am pointing out the obvious here; however I, as a native Estonian, have made that mistake one too many times myself. The last thing you want to worry about on your holiday is taming a runny nose or nursing a sore throat. Definitely do not put on a big thick coat on its own. Dig out that scarf, warm gloves (opt for the touch-screen friendly ones, you will thank yourself later) and a nice woolly hat and layer up under that Kuressaare Episcopal Castle winder jacket. The roads will probably icy or just covered with salt so be mindful of Kuressaare) has been known for Back in the that when packing footwear for the trip. centuries for its spa treatments day it was and the healing powers of mud. mandatory If the capital doesn’t appeal to you, why Back in the day it was mandatory not venture into the countrytreatment for patients treatment side and take a ferry ride to with a number of for patients Throughout Saaremaa? Estonia has 3G or 4G ailments, nowadays it with a time it has almost everywhere so you are is a luxury pampering number of had a variety session that is apprecialways connected and English is ailments, of uses, spoken as a second language so ated equally by both the Angla Windmills, Saaremaa nowadays may it be booking bus tickets from Tallinn natives and foreigners it is a luxury to Kuressaare can easily done via a hub for alike. There is a variety on a heated stone bench. The mobile and then printed out at pampering. of spas in the small breakfast buffet offers traditional proclaiming the bus station (tpilet.ee/en). Just town of Kuressaare European breakfasts mixed with Christianity, select from where to where and (also the biggest town on the native dishes and the dining room is set in torturing let the website work its magic. island). In Grand Rose spa there what looks to be a wine cellar so expect prisoners, The new range of buses have Wiis a wide range of saunas with candlelight in the morning! And saving hosting Fi, more comfortable seats and a variety of temperatures, use the best for the last: Kuressaare Episcopal concerts... a range of films and music to kill of salt, steam, specific types of Castle is a true gem. The earliest written the list goes time with for the duration of the wood and lights. There are also record mentioning the castle is from the journey (4 hours in total, this is pools varying in temperature on.

1380s and throughout time it has had a counting the 30 min ferry ride). and special buttons that activate variety of uses, may it be a hub for prounderwater massage streams, showers or claiming Christianity, torturing prisoners, you can just enjoy a freshly made cocktail The island (and especially its ‘capital’ hosting concerts... the list goes on.

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Cream Floral Jumpsuit TOPSHOP £39.00

JUMPING ON THE JUMPSUIT TREND

I’ve always thought that women who wear jumpsuits look like they’ve got it all figured out. Many of us (and I firmly included myself in this until very recently) avoid jumpsuits like the plague, and understandably too, as they can be intimidating and not always the easiest to pull off.

But once you venture into the world of jumpsuits, I promise you, you’ll never look back.

BY JULIA COELHO Lace Top Jumpsuit ASOS £45.00

Teetering on that fine line between I’m-aboutto-get-stuckinto-someDIY-andwall-painting and pure style Goddess.

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Bershka Floral Printed Wide Leg Jumpsuit

The Jetset Diaries Avalon Jumpsuit ASOS £205.00

ASOS £35.99

A jumpsuit may be the perfect solution for all of your cold weather fashion troubles.

Wrap Front Jumpsuit with Peg Leg & Self Belt ASOS £38.00

From feminine and fitted, to flared and funky: there are unlimited options at your disposal.

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irst and foremost, a jumpsuit is a fantastic going-out option during the chillier months. As a major friolera myself, wearing dresses in the bitter winter temperatures doesn’t particularly fill me with joy, and the standard jeans-and-a-nice-top look isn’t the most inspiring of options to fall back on time and time again. With a huge range of long-sleeved styles available, a jumpsuit may be the perfect solution for all of your cold weather fashion troubles. They’re also fantastic pieces to sport throughout the transitional spring months that are due to grace us soon!

One of the best things about the jumpsuit as well as its more summer-appropriate sibling, the playsuit, is that they can both be styled numerous ways. From feminine and fitted, to flared and funky: there are unlimited options at your disposal. They can be worn with heels or flats, and are really welcoming to layering, which again means more versatility with regards to the weather. You could wear one for your most casual coffee date, yet also find one perfectly appropriate for a gorgeous wedding guest look (and it’s probably less likely that someone will be wearing the same outfit as you.)

When presented with a formal occasion, I think it’s natural to assume that a dress is our only option. While a dress may indeed be the safer choice, something we’re used to, and well within our comfort zones, a jumpsuit will never fail to make an impact.

A sleek and well-fitted one-piece will have heads turning, but will still be less in-yourface than any potentially ostentatious gown.

Equally, for a more casual affair, a jumpsuit is the perfect item to get you out of your jeans and t-shirt rut at long last. Sporting a jumpsuit can have the immediate effect of making you feel a little overdressed, but you can easily offset your self-consciousness by teaming it with some trainers for a laidback and effortlessly stylish look. A funky pair of dungarees is not only bang on trend, but also allows for so many fun styling options. A boiler suit, although one of my favourites (from afar), I have to say is one of the trickier styles to get right, teetering on that fine line between I’mabout-to-get-stuck-into-some-DIY-andwall-painting and pure style Goddess. All it really takes is a good fit and some rolling up at the ankles, a pair of strappy heels if you’re wanting to jazz it up a little, and some basic jewellery. As soon as I learn how to pull it off, I have a feeling it’s going to be my go-to date night outfit.

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fashion Humbug Striped Boiler Jumpsuit TOPSHOP £55.00

Accessories are key to any look, but particularly to a jumpsuit.

Missguided Polka Dot Jumpsuit ASOS £35.00

Striped Cropped Dungarees MANGO £49.99

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Cheap Monday 90s Style Dungaree ASOS £80.00

ASOS £69.00

Spaghetti Strap Jumpsuit MANGO £35.99

They’re also fantastic pieces to sport throughout the transitional spring months that are due to grace us soon!

Denim Dungarees in Mid Blue Wash ASOS £45.00

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If you’re new to the jumpsuit game, don’t feel like you have to go all in with a complex print or busy silhouette right from the get go. A simple black style is a safe bet and only needs minimal accessorising; the fact that you’re even sporting a jumpsuit in the first place is statement enough.

Generally, styles that are looser on the legs and cinched in at the waist tend to be the most flattering silhouettes. If you’re tall, wide leg jumpsuits could be a great go-to, and if you’re a little smaller in stature, you may want to opt for a slim-fit, cropped style, in order to avoid drowning out your physique in too much fabric. At the end of the day, there really are no rules in fashion, so just wear whatever you feel most comfortable and confident in.

As with all one-pieces, all you really need is a good pair of shoes, and some staple accessories. Accessories are key to any look, but particularly to a jumpsuit, where you may need a sparkle or special item to break up the monotony of your outfit. Jewellery has the power to create a secondary focus point, detracting from just the outfit itself.

A belt is one of the simplest yet most crucial accessories you could add to a jumpsuit. Not only will it break up the look, but it will also serve to accentuate your waist and show off your figure. I personally love a metallic belt to contrast the colour and texture of the look.

I’ve bigged up jumpsuits enough, but honestly, I wonder if anything else that’s so simple has the ability to look so cool, so comfortable, so utilitarian, and so flattering. Like dresses, they give you an entire outfit in one go, but unlike dresses, they don’t stop short at women’s fashion, and can often be totally unisex. Male dungarees and boiler suits have been hugely trendy over the past few years, although I’m not quite sure if they’ve been on our radar in Gib quite yet. I think the main issue is that men have not been slowly weaned onto the concept of a onepiece. Instead, high-brow fashion brands as well as those slightly more left field have released laughable pieces that look downright comical, and simply not for your everyday guy. But if you take it back to basics, a simple baggy denim pair of dungarees or a drop-crotch Rick Owens-esque piece can actually look really awesome when styled in the right way.

Sure, jumpsuits can be a little intimidating if you’ve never worn them before, and it’ll take you a little while to shake off the paranoia of feeling like you’re out and about rocking a pair of pyjamas. But I think it’s time to embrace them once and for all.

Who knows, they may even become a new wardrobe staple!

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BINKY'S KITCHEN

Spices, herbs and fenugreek: My big low-fat Greek wedding

BY ELENA SCIALTIEL

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ikos and Bianca Tsagkataki met at university in Scotland and were brought together by their love of Mediterranean flavours, albeit from opposite shores of Mare Nostrum.

Against stereotypes about Greek men, Nikos is the one who does most of the cooking in their household, especially where pastry artistry is concerned. Thus, faster than you can quip ‘opa!’ at a sirtaki contest, they started a miniature cottage industry of traditional Greek delicacies known as ‘Binky’s Kitchen’ in the local artisan markets’ circuit where they sell handmade preserves, but they also take orders for door-to-door delivery of sweet and savoury confectionery.

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ers, Nikos and his brother Giannis were left mers in the countryside with my grandhome alone by their parents who dayparents who taught me how to find and tripped to the countryside or the coast. pick wild herbs, how to dry and preserve Nikos reminisces: “My mother used to them and how to use them to flavour my leave some food in the fridge, healthy and dishes. They also taught me how to select fresh but not our favourite, next wild mushrooms, and tell the to the raw ingredients for our edible apart from the poisonous.

"If we favourite dish and notes for its I can do that in Crete, but here in wanted to method, plus some pocket money Spain, no, I wouldn’t trust myself save that which we could have spent for to pick the right ones.” money either take-away, grocery shopfor leisure ping or going out to the cinema “Binky’s Kitchen has been growpurposes we or disco. If we wanted to save ing for six years,” says Bianca, that money for leisure purposes Binky for her friends, who is the had to either we had to either eat the food we public face of the business and eat the food disliked, or cook our favourite takes care of customers’ service, we disliked, dish from scratch. Soon we masadministration and PR, while Niko or cook our tered the technique and learnt bakes galaktoboureko and baklava, favourite to explore other recipes. This or rolls vine leaves and rice into dish from grew into a passion that made me flavoursome dolmades. “It is a scratch." serve myself hearty meals when very small business, nothing more away from home and also pushed than a hobby, because we don’t me to go hunting for the right ingredients want quantity to override quality, and we and farmer markets or in the fields when strive to cook for others as if they were possible. As a young boy, I spent my sumguests at our table,” Bianca says. And Nikos GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

leisure adds: “I always sample my batches before delivery and if it doesn’t taste good to me, it isn’t good for my customers either, so I don’t deliver it at all.”

hours around the hills, and climb rocks just for the thrill of picking wild asparagus.”

“That’s why we keep our production relatively small: we don’t want to be overwhelmed by orders and turn "We have a our hobby into a chore. We have steady core a steady core of satisfied cusof satisfied tomers and word of mouth is the customers best publicity,” they say, adding and word that they are fully registered with of mouth the Environmental Agency that is the best carries out regular health & safety checks at their kitchen. publicity."

Their recipes are mostly vegetarian and vegan, as they bank on the goodness of spices, herbs and fresh vegetables. This doesn’t mean that Nikos cannot bake one mean moussaka - on the contrary! - but he explains how a typical Greek feast, like elsewhere in Med cuisine, features a main meat or fish dish, surrounded by a plethora of sides and salads that can easily turn into stand-alone platters. “There’s a misconception that moussaka is like lasagne, substiIt all started with fresh cheese, Bianca tuting aubergine slices to pasta sheets, but says: “I used to make, and still do, fresh the main difference is in the flavouring for cheese pressed according to the ancient the mince: it’s a blend of spices including recipe and preserved in olive oil and herbs. those that Europeans wouldn’t immediI use vegetarian rennet and Cretan oil ately associate with savoury, when possible.” Niko adds: “Cretan like cinnamon, that gives it its oil is dense and distinctive, so it "It’s a blend intense scent and taste,” Bianca adds character to the fresh cheese of spices explains. Of course the sultry when it is absorbed.” including flavour can be equally achieved those that for vegan moussaka, should Baklava sell out like hotcakes at Europeans you require it made with soy Binky’s Kitchen’s Calentita stall mince! “And the béchamel,” every year – except last edition wouldn’t Nikos echoes, “that is like the which was held one week earlier immediately icing on the cake: not too thick, than customary and they were associate not too thin, continuously away from Gibraltar! “This gap year with stirred in the pot to avoid flour has brought us the idea of coming savoury, like lumps, and at its turn flavoured back next year with a hot moussacinnamon, with a balanced mix.” ka stall; we just have to sort out a that gives it portable oven,” Nikos shrugs.

Moussaka is one of those its intense crockpots that gain in yumMeanwhile, Binky’s jams are available scent and miness if they are baked in from Bautista in Market Lane. Visit taste." the morning, let to cool and her Facebook page for orders. later reheated for dinner, which allows for all-day deliveries and for home-freezing if customers want to enjoy it in small portions over the weekend.

Thursdays and Fridays are the busiest days in the kitchen for Nikos who also has a fulltime day-job with Israeli firm Playtech, and for Bianca who is a part-time bank teller.

“There’s a lot of stirring and mixing and blending in our cooking,” Bianca admits, “especially when preparing jams. You cannot leave them one minute alone or they will stick!” She uses vegetable pectin only and quince as jellying agent for her preserves and chutneys, which often marry two fruits you wouldn’t expect to work so well together. Quince is common in Nikos’s native Crete, where from he also sources his herbs and spices, especially his favourites, thyme and oregano, since the different saturation of soil minerals bestows different nuances to their scents, even if grown roughly at the same latitude and under the same climate of their Andalusian counterparts. He does scour the ‘wilderness’ for herbs and other treasures to enrich the dish, though: “I ride my bike for GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2018

THE WHAT-WITH-WHAT OF BINKY’S JAMS: Pear jam with cheddar Apple jam with pork Sweet chilli with gammon (a good idea is to smother the uncooked gammon with the sweet chilli before going in the oven is it forms a sweet and sticky glaze) Tomato & honey with fresh cheese Red onion chutney with goat cheese, then warmed in oven and spread over toasted baguette

FAVE HERBS & SPICES: All-time favourites are oregano and thyme, whose pungency cannot can’t be replicated unless you go into the mountains of Crete and pick/dry it yourself!

Dill is used for fricassee and dolmadakia.

Dittany (Diktamos) is an ancient Cretan herb used for centuries to make a tea believed to heal a variety of ailments from digestive disorders to toothaches. Not as common now with the younger generations as it is with the grannies.

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VILLAINS AND WINES

It is estimated that half of all Château Lafite sold in the Far East is fake.

This month we look at the heady world of fine wine and why the world’s most expensive wines are a magnet for criminals.

BY ANDREW LICUDI DipWSET

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Kurniawan’s story is straight out of a n 2012 when the FBI broke into Rudy Hollywood movie except that our hero is Kurniawan’s house, in a quiet suburb of Los Angeles, they were now serving a ten-year prison confronted with bags of fake sentence after being found guilty How did of what’s almost certainly biggest wine labels, old bottles, corks this Pinotwine fraud of all time. How did and recipes on how to “make” loving this Pinot-loving, Indonesian stuexpensive and rare vintages of student in Bordeaux by mixing younger and dent in his early twenties manage his early cheaper vintages of the same to fool millionaire collectors and twenties some of the most trusted auction wine with exuberant Californian manage houses in the international wine Cabernet Sauvignons. Whilst trade? still in his early twenties, having to fool arrived in the US some years earmillionaire lier from Hong Kong, Kurniawan The most expensive wines are so collectors broke all records by selling rarely drunk that few can claim to and some through Acker Merrall & Condit be experts able to tell if a particof the most over $24,000,000 of fake wine in ular wine is fake by taste alone. trusted a single auction. Over a period of Those who knew Kurniawan auction ten years it is estimated that he claim that he had a very percephouses in the tive palate and was intelligent sold at least $1,000,000 of wine each month and that there are international enough to move seamlessly from still hundreds of millions of dolthe easy-drinking wine world he wine trade? lars’ worth of his fake wines ready knew to the complex world of to be sold in the worlds auction Burgundy. Soon he was talking in equal houses once Kurniawan is safely forgotten. terms with hardened collectors. It is easy 82

to imagine that the soft spoken, highly likeable Kurniawan (not his real name), whose family had been convicted of high level frauds in Hong Kong, would have quickly perceived Burgundy and Bordeaux as a means of making easy money. After all he would have seen collectors pay tens of thousands for single bottles rarely drunk but sold on to other collectors in a never-ending chain.

Kurniawan, who lived the good life of a rich young man with expensive houses and driving Ferraris, soon established himself as a significant buyer of top-notch Burgundy and Bordeaux. He bought so much of Domaine de la Romanee Conti he became known as Dr. Conti. His tastings and generosity with his wines soon became legendary, and gave Kurniawan a platform to show off his extensive knowledge of fine wines. As a collector, he also sold wines both at auction and privately.

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wine easy-drinking wine beginner to fine wine world expert. Once his reputation was established as a rich collector and connoisseur the rest was relatively simple. He would buy poor vintages He bought and decant them into old bottles so much of of better vintages worth tens of Domaine de thousands more. He would also la Romanee mix older and younger vintages of Conti he Bordeaux “producing” large quantities of wine such the legendary became 1947 Cheval Blanc. known as Dr.

Conti.

Kurniawan’s recipe for 1945 Mouton-Rothschild was 50% 1988 Ch. Cos d’Estournel, 25% 1990 Ch. Palmer, and 25% 2000 California Cabernet. Most wine geeks would love to taste this fake!

It is difficult to imagine he was operating on his own. He must have had help faking labels, corks and obtaining large quantities of old bottles. Kurniawan would have still be selling fraudulent wine today had he not made a crucial error leading to his eventual arrest and imprisonment.

Nuit. Red Burgundy Burgundy most famous bio dynamic producer. Other wines include La Tache, Echezeaux and Grand Echezeaux. I was lucky to be invited to a tasting of these wines many years ago before they became prohibitively expensive. My enduring memory is how easy drinking they were.

Average Price $15,700 per bottle.

Domaine Georges and Cristophe Roumier, Musigny Grand Cru. Red Burgundy We stay in Burgundy and return to Le Musigny vineyard. Roumier produces one of the finest expressions of Pinot. His production is organic and uses no pesticides.

Expect to pay north of $6000.

When Laurent Ponsot was told that Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, bottles of Clos Saint-Denis 1945 from his Montrachet, Grand Cru Chardonnay.

Egon Muller Scharzhoberger Riesling Burgundy family estate were imminently Cote de Beaune Trockenbeerenauslese.

Mosel, Germany up for auction in New York he immediately flew there arriving at the auction house 15 This wine is produced only in exceptional Back with Romanee-Conti and back to minutes into the sale. He managed to perMontrachet. The name and vineyard guaryears. Intensely sweet and complex. Each suade Acker Merrall & Condit to remove antees big spenders will flock to buy these grape is picked individually when noble rot the bottles from the sale on the has affected the grape. Described wines. Expect to pay north of $6000. basis that his family only started

by Jancis Robinson as a tight rope He would producing Clos Saint-Denis in between sweetness and acidity.

Domaine Leroy Chambertin Grand Cru. buy poor 1982. At Kurniawan’s trial Ponsot Average price $9800 per bottle.

Red Burgundy vintages reckoned that as much as 80% and decant of fine Burgundy for sale in the Another Leroy Pinot Noir. This time from Domaine Leroy Musigny world’s auction houses could be them into the Grand Cru Chambertin Vineyard.

Grand Cur, Cotes du Nuit. Red fake! old bottles Burgundy Very rare. In some years only a couple of of better It is easy to understand why barrels are made. Its provenance and rarity vintages Owner Madame Lalou Bizetfraudsters are attracted to fine assures high prices. North of $4000 per Leroy is said to love her vines worth tens wines. Here is a list of the world’s more than people. She has a large bottle. of thousands most expensive wines, compiled shareholding in Domaine de la more. using Wine Searcher. I have only Romanee Conti but was thrown Chateau Petrus-Pomerol Bordeux listed wines which are currentfrom of the Board of Directors ly on sale and not individual bottles of By rights the first twenty most expenafter a major row. Her vines are very low historical rare vintages which can achieve sive wine are all Burgundy or German. yielding and she has run her Domaine astronomical prices.

However I thought I would include another bio dynamically since 1988. Her wine which regularly faked. The wines are said to be near perfect Owner Petrus vineyard was bought by a and some vintages fetching in Henri Jayer Richebourg Grand Cru. passing Belgian from the owner’s Madame excess of $30,000 per bottle.

Red Burgundy widow for half the price of a one Lalou BizetHenri Jayer made superlative wines I am bedroom flat in Gibraltar! It’s the Leroy is said Domaine Leflaive Montrachet told. His vineyards around Vosne Romanee darling of Hollywood stars and to love her Grand Cru. Cote de Beaune in Burgundy included Cros Parantoux and celebrities. Highly collectable. It is vines more Richebourg. Jayer died in 2006. Expect to a great wine nonetheless. $3000.

Montrachet is the most famous than people. pay upwards of £5000 per bottle for his white wine vineyard in the wines. world. Leflaive is one of the most exalted Le Pin-Pomerol Red Bordeux producers here and his wine can fetch Another Pomerol. Small production. over $20,000 per bottle. Anyone for Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Virtually unknown a few years ago. $3000.

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POMME D'AMOUR AVEC TOFU The Love Apple with tofu. The French call the tomato ‘pomme d’amour’ as they believe it has aphrodisiac powers. In addition, it is thought that the acid in the tomato stimulates blood flow to a person’s lips and mouth. Oo la la.

PREP TIME 5 minutes

COOKING TIME 25 minutes

INGREDIENTS 400g tinned plum tomatoes 400g tinned chopped tomatoes 12 cherry tomatoes (cut in half) 2 medium sized Kumato (finely chopped) 4-6 cloves of garlic (the number depends on how garlicky you like your food) ½ tsp chilli flakes ¾ tsp ground sumac ½ tsp Himalayan pink salt ¾ tsp garlic pepper (or ordinary pepper if you are not a huge fan of garlic) 2 tsp Provençal herbs Splash of avocado oil (or whatever your go to oil is) 1 block of medium or firm tofu (firm makes it easier for the tofu to retain the love heart shape) Sprinkle of black sesame seeds 4 Pitta breads (or other breads like fresh crusty) 1 heart shaped cutter NOTE: This recipe is for two people and can be surprisingly filling.

The sweet and sour flavours of the sumac bring a fruity Middle Eastern taste to the herb and garlic Mediterranean inspired dish.

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INSTRUCTIONS 1. Chop up the Kumato and garlic.

2. Fry the garlic in a splash of avocado oil until golden.

3. Add all the tomatoes, herbs, chilli flakes, sumac, salt and pepper and bring to the boil, this should take around five minutes.

hearts. Keep the remaining tofu for another dish such as scrambled tofu for breakfast or freeze it for another day.

4. Turn the heat down to a simmer.

6. Using a metal fish slice (or flipper) gently scoop the tofu love heart and place in the pan of tomatoes. The tofu can fall apart so care is needed with this manoeuvre.

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your tomatoes for 15-20 minutes.

8. Sprinkle the tofu with black sesame seeds.

9. To serve up this dish use a fish slice to remove the tofu from the pan and place it on a side plate, using a ladle scoop the tomatoes into a bowl. Via the fish slice once more lay the tofu on top.

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150g of 70% non-dairy dark chocolate

Gently melt the dark chocolate and set aside to cool (it is vital to cool or it will melt the white chocolate)

25g of vegan strawberry marshmallows (chopped) 30g of non-dairy white chocolate (chopped) 25g of salted peanuts (chopped) 2 tbsp puffed quinoa 15g vegan honeycomb Vegan sprinkles

In a mixing bowl, add all the dry ingredients except the sprinkles. Once the melted chocolate has cooled, add this and stir everything to combine.

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A delightful terrace, bar, restaurant on the prestigious Queensway Quay Marina. Wonderful location for business meetings, weddings, anniversaries and other special occasions. Specialising in fresh fish caught locally with daily specials including seabass, dorada, sole, and bream, plus a very comprehensive a la carte menu. Also available are tapas and raciones (double size tapas) to share (or not!) prior to a main course. Mixed paellas also available, as well as fish cooked in rock salt, whole suckling pig and baby lamb to order.

Nunos Italian Restaurant, overlooking the Mediterranean, is popular with hotel guests, tourists and local residents. This 2 rosette rated, AA restaurant is renowned for its eclectic interior, intimate atmosphere and fine cuisine. Savour a wide selection of freshly prepared Italian delicacies, including bread, pasta, meat and fish, followed by delicious desserts. In the summer months, the hotel offers alfresco dining for private parties in the Garden Grill. Sitting nestled in the colonial garden you can enjoy a mouth-watering menu of charcoal-grilled meats and freshly prepared salads in candlelit surroundings.

Open: Mon-Sun 1-3pm lunch, 7–11pm dinner

Modern Italian eatery set in lively Casemates square. Everything from chicory and crispy pancetta salad with walnuts, pears and blue cheese dressing, or king prawn, mozzarella and mango salad to pastas (eg: linguine with serrano ham, king prawns and rocket; smoked salmon and crayfish ravioli with saffron and spinach cream) to salads (eg: Vesuvio spicy beef, cherry tomatoes, roasted peppers and red onions; and Romana chorizo, black pudding, egg and pancetta) and pizzas (eg: Quatto Stagioni topped with mozzarella, ham, chicken, pepperoni and mushroom) and specialities such as salmon fishcakes, beef medallions and duck. Daily specials on blackboard. No smoking.

Open: Tues-Sat lunch & evening, Sunday lunch only, closed Mondays.

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Stylish Lounge Gastro Bar on Queensway Quay Marina serving best quality food prepared by passionate, qualified chefs. Popular quiz on Sundays from 7pm and a relaxed friendly atmosphere. A separate Lounge Bar Area serving a wide range of hot drinks, wines, beers, spirits and cocktails at reasonable prices, with large TV’s for sports and events coverage.

Solo Bar and Grill is a stylish and modern eatery — perfect for business functions or lunches — and part of the popular Cafe Solo stable.

Serving everything from Goats’ Cheese Salad, Mediterranean Pâté and Cajun Langoustines to Beer Battered John Dory, or Harissa Chicken, and Chargrilled Sirloin Steak. This is a delightful venue in Europort with a cosy mezzanine level and terrace seating. Well worth a visit, or two! Available for private functions and corporate events — call 200 62828 to book your function or event.

Next to the Law Courts, with a terrace seating area, Jury’s has a selection of Ciabattas, paninis, baguettes and wraps, plus popular sharing dishes, such as Your Honour’s platter. Jacket potatoes, main courses, pasta and some innocent salads too. For those with a sweet tooth, there are tantalising homemade desserts, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, as well as Lavazza coffees and frappes.

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Traditional pub in fashionable Casemates area.

Named for the 18th century practise of locking gates to the city at night when the guard called ‘All’s Well’. All’s Well serves Bass beers, wine and spirits plus pub fare. English breakfast all day, hot meals such as pork in mushroom sauce, sausage & mash, cod & chips and steak & ale pie plus a range of salads and jacket potatoes. Large terrace. Karaoke Mondays and Wednesdays until late. Free tapas on a Friday 7pm.

Traditional Irish bar with full HD sports coverage and Irish breakfast from 8am (Sunday from 9am).

Guinness on draught. Food includes salads, jackets, beef & Guinness pie, Kildare chicken, chicken brochette, gourmet burgers, wraps, children menu, homemade desserts, daily specials and more. And just like in Ireland there’s no smoking inside, so a great atmosphere for all.

Situated in the corner of Casemates Square, the bar is a celebration of the life of Lord Nelson. See the collection of nautical art & memorabilia, including a brass pin from HMS Victory itself. HMS crews’ breakfast served from 10am, full menu including steak & ale pie, traditional fish & chips & much more served all day until 10pm.

Jam session Thursday, live top local band on Friday & Karaoke Saturday nights.

All’s Well Casemates Square. Tel: 200 72987

O’Reilly’s Ocean Village. Tel: 200 67888 www.oreillysgibraltar.com

Lord Nelson Bar Brasserie 10 Casemates Tel: 200 50009 Visit: www.lordnelson.gi

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Located on the water’s edge, Ocean Village, just across the bridge from O’Reilly’s. This bar & grill is a fusion of an American themed menu with Tarifa chill out style. Open for breakfast from 9am serving healthy options, freshly squeezed orange juice and Italian Lavazza coffee. Try the spicy Caribbean rum ribs, southern fried chicken bucket, the popular Texas burger or a selection of tasty salads and homemade desserts. London Pride, San Miguel & Carling beer on draught, live sports.

Gibraltar’s oldest bar, just off Main St. Small cosy and famous for its full English breakfast from 8am (9am on Sunday). A full menu including fish & chips, until 10pm. The home of Star Coffee, draught beers include Heineken, Old Speckled Hen, Murphys and Strongbow cider. Managed

by Hunter Twins from Stafford, England, also home to Med Golf & Tottenham Hotspur supporters club.

Located next to Pizza Hut in Casemates and in Eurotowers, serves a variety of salads/baguettes (white, brown, ciabatta) filled with a deli selection such as roast chicken; smoked salmon & mascapone; ham, cheese and coleslaw; or humous, avocado & roast red pepper. Salads fresh and tasty (Greek, Waldorf, cous cous, tuna pasta etc), great value. Jackets, quiches, coffee plus cakes (flapjacks, muffins) available all day. Eat-in area.

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Bridge Bar & Grill Ocean Village Tel: 200 66446 www.bridgebargibraltar.com

Star Bar Parliament Lane. Tel: 200 75924 Visit: www.starbargibraltar.com

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clubs & activities Arts & Crafts Cross Stitch Club: John Mackintosh Hall, 1st Floor, Mon 6-8pm, fee £1.

Gibraltar Arts & Crafts Association: Children: Mon&Fri 12.30-2pm, Mon-Fri 3.45-5.15pm Adults: Wed 5.45-7.15, Sat 10.30 to 12.30, Tel: 20073865 email: gibartsandcrafts@hotmail.com Knit and Natter Group: Tues 11am-3pm, Thurs 5.30-7.30pm, at Arts & Crafts Shop, Casemates balcony. Free to join and refreshments provided. Tel: 20073865.

The Arts Centre: Prince Edward’s Road, Art classes for children and adults. For more info call Tel: 200 79788.

The Fine Arts Association Gallery: At Casemates. Open 10am-2pm, 3-6pm Mon-Fri, Sat 11am-1pm.

The Gibraltar Decorative and Fine Arts Society: Affiliated to UK NADFAS meets third Wed of month at 6.30pm at Eliott Hotel - lecturers & experts from the UK talk on Art etc. Contact: Chairman Claus Olesen 200 02024 claus.olesen@sghambros.com.

Membership Ian Le Breton 200 76173 ilebreton@SovereignGroup.com Board Games Calpe Chess Club & Junior Club: meets in Studio 1, John Mackintosh Hall Thursday, Juniors: 5p.m. - 7 p.m. / Tuesday & Thursday 7p.m. - 10:30 The Gibraltar Scrabble Club: Meets on Tuesdays at 3pm. Tel: Vin 20073660 or Roy 20075995. All welcome.

The Subbuteo Club: Meets in Charles Hunt Room, John Mackintosh Hall.

Dance Adult Dance Classes: Wed evenings at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre from 7-8.30pm. Contact Dilip on 200 78714.

Art in Movement Centre: Hiphop/Break Dance,Contemporary Dance, Pilates, Capoeira, Acrobatics, Street Kids & Tods, Modern Dance. Performance and Film opportunities. Judo & Jujitsu Classes: Tue/ Thur with Sensei Conroy. All ages. Budokai Martial Arts Centre, Wellington Front. www. artinmovement.net FB: Art In Movement A.I.M, tel 54025041 or 54007457 Ballet, Modern Theatre, Contemporary & Hip Hop: weekly at Danza Academy.

Training from 3 years to Adult Advanced.

68/2 Prince Edward’s Rd Tel: 54027111.

Bellydance Classes, all levels, Tue 8-9pm at the Ocean Village Gym (non–members welcome). Contact 54005593.

DSA Old & Modern Sequence Dancing: Sessions at Central Hall Fri 8.30pm, beginners 8pm. Tel: 200 78901 or tony@gibraltar.gi Everybody welcome.

Modern & Latin American Sequence Dancing: Mon at Catholic Community Centre 8pm. Tel. Andrew 200 78901.

Modern, Contemporary, Lyrical, Flexibility, Hip Hop & Dance Theatre: Classes weekly at Urban Dance Studio, 2 Jumpers Bastion.

Tel: Yalta 54012212 or Jolene 54015125.

Rockkickers Linedance Club: Governor’s Meadow 1st School. www.rockkickers.com Salsa Gibraltar Salsa: Tues at Laguna Social Club, Laguna Estate. Beginners 7-8.30pm.

Intermediates 8.30-10pm. Tel: Mike 54472000 or info@salsagibraltar.com Zumba Classes at Urban Dance: Jumpers Bastion, with certified instructor Tyron Walker. Tel: 20063959 or 54012212 or Twitter: @UrbanDanceGib History & Heritage The Gibraltar Heritage Trust: Main Guard, 13 John Mackintosh Sq. Tel: 200 42844.

The Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Association: Dedicated to preservation of Rock’s transport/motoring heritage. Assists members in restoration / maintenance of classic vehicles. New members welcome. Tel: 200 44643.

Garrison Library Tours: at 11am on Fri, duration 1h 50mins. Tel: 20077418.

History Alive: Historical re-enactment parade. Main Street up to Casemates Square every Sat at 12 noon.

Music Gibraltar National Choir and Gibraltar Junior National Choir: Rehearses at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Tel: 54831000.

The Calpe Band: Mon & Wed. For musicians of brass/woodwind instruments of all standards/ages/abilities 7-9pm. Tel:

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Outdoor Activities The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Gibraltar: Exciting self-development programme for young people worldwide equipping them with life skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and the world. Contact: Award House, North Mole Road, PO Box: 1260. mjpizza@ gibtelecom.net, www.thedukes.gi.

Social Clubs The Rotary Club of Gibraltar meets the Rock Hotel, 7pm Tuesday evenings. Guests welcome. For contact or info www.rotaryclubgibraltar.com Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes: (Gibraltar Province) meets RAOB Club, 72/9 Prince Edward’s Road - Provincial Grand Lodge, Thu/month, 7.30pm. William Tilley 2371, Thurs 8.30pm. Buena Vista 9975, monthtly, Social Lodge. www.akearn1.wix. com/raob-gibraltar, william.tilley.lodge@ hotmail.co.uk, Clive, tel: 58008074 Special Interest Clubs & Societies Creative Writers Group: meets up on Tuesday mornings at 10.30 in O’Reillys Irish Bar and it is free to attend. Tel: Carla 54006696.

Gibraltar Book Club: For info Tel: Parissa 54022808.

Gibraltar Horticultural Society: meets 1st Thurs of month 6pm, J.M. Hall.

Spring Flower Show, slide shows, flower arrangement demos, outings to garden centres, annual Alameda Gardens tour. All welcome.

Gibraltar Philosophical Society: devoted to intellectually stimulating debate. Frequent lectures and seminars on a range of topics.

Tel: 54008426 or Facebook: facebook.com/gibphilosophy Gibraltar Photographic Society: Meets on Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Wellington Front.

Induction courses, talks, discussions, competitions etc. For details contact the secretary on, leslinares@gibtelecom.net Harley Davidson Owners’ Club: www.hdcgib.com Lions Club of Gibraltar: Meets 2nd and 4th Wed of the month at 50 Line Wall Road. www.lionsclubofgibraltar.com St John’s Ambulance: Adult Volunteers Training Sessions from 8-10pm on Tues. Tel: 200 77390 or training@stjohn.gi The Royal British Legion: For info or membership contact the Branch Secretary 20074604 or write to PO Box 332.

UN Association of Gibraltar: PO Box 599, 22a Main Street. Tel: 200 52108.

Sports Supporters Clubs Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Club: Meets at Star Bar, Parliament Lane, when Spurs games are televised - call prior to matches to check game is televised. Great food for a lunch if KO is early or an early supper if the game is later.

Gibraltar Arsenal Supporters Club: Meets match days upstairs at Time Out Café, Eurotowers. Gooners of all ages welcome.

For info/news visit www.GibGooners.com Tel: 54010681 (Bill) or 54164000 (John).

Gibraltar Hammers: Meets on match days at the Victoria Stadium Bar, Bayside Road. All league games are shown live. All West Ham supporters and their families are welcome. For details visit www. gibraltarhammers.com or gibraltarhammers@ hotmail.com Sports & Fitness Artistic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Artistic Gymnastics Association. Tel: Angela 200 70611 or Sally 200 74661.

Athletics: Gibraltar Amateur Athletics Association holds competitions through year for juniors, adults and veterans. Two main clubs (Calpeans 200 71807, Lourdians 200 75180) training sessions at Victoria Stadium.

Badminton: Recreational badminton weekdays at Victoria Stadium (Tel: 200 78409 for allocations). Gibraltar Badminton Association (affiliated to BWF& BE) junior club/tournaments, senior leagues/ recreational. www.badmintongibraltar.com Ballet Barre Fitness: Adults on Wed 10am & Fri 6pm at The Arts Centre. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com

Basketball: Gibraltar Amateur Basketball Association (affiliated FIBA) leagues/ training for minis, passarelle, cadets, seniors and adults at a variety of levels. Tel: John 200 77253, Randy 200 40727.

Boxing: Gibraltar Amateur Boxing Association (member IABA) gym on Rosia Rd. Over 13s welcome. Tuition with ex-pro boxer Ernest Victory. Tel: 56382000 or 20042788.

Cheerleading: Gibraltar Cheerleading Association, girls and boys of all ages.

Chearleading and street cheer/hip hop at Victoria Stadium. Recreational / competitive levels. Tel: 58008338.

Canoeing: Gibraltar Canoeing Association.

Tel: Nigel 200 52917 or Arturo 54025033.

Cricket: Gibraltar Cricket, National Governing Body & Associate Member of ICC. Governs International & Domestic Men’s, Women’s, Boys’ & Girls’ cricketleague & cup competitions and in-school coaching. www.gibraltarcricket.com, info@ gibcricket.com, Twitter: @Gibraltar_Crick Cycling: Gibraltar Cycling Association various cycling tours.

Darts: Gibraltar Darts Association (full member of WDF & affiliate of BDO). We cater for men, ladies & youth who take part in leagues, competitions and a youth academy for the correct development of the sport. Tel: Darren 54027171 Secretary, Alex 54021672 Youth Rep, Justin 54022622 President. Email: info@ gibraltardarts.com Football: Gibraltar Football Association leagues/competitions for all ages OctoberMay. Futsal in summer, Victoria Stadium. Tel: 20042941 www.gibraltarfa.com Gaelic Football Club (Irish sport): Males any age welcome. Get fit, play sport, meet new friends, travel around Spain/Europe and play an exciting and competitive sport. Training every Wed on the MOD pitch on Devil’s Tower Road at 7pm. Andalucia League with Seville and Marbella to play matches home and away monthly. Visit www.gibraltargaels. com or secretary.gibraltar.europe@gaa.ie Hockey: Gibraltar Hockey Association (members FIH & EHF) high standard competitions/training for adults/juniors.

Tel: Eric 200 74156 or Peter 200 72730 for info.

Iaido: teaches the Japanese sword (Katana), classes every week. www.iaidogibraltar.com Iwa Dojo, Kendo & Jujitsu: Classes every week, for kids/adults. Tel: 54529000 www. iwadojo.com or dbocarisa@iwadojo.com Judo and Ju-jitsu: Gibraltar Budokai Judo Association UKMAF recognised instructors for all ages and levels at Budokai Martial Arts Centre, Wellington Front. Tel: Charlie 20043319.

Ju-jitsu: Gibraltar Ju-jitsu Academy training and grading for juniors/seniors held during evening at 4 North Jumpers Bastion. Tel: 54011007.

Karate-do Shotokai: Gibraltar Karate-do Shotokai Association - Karate training for junior & seniors at Clubhouse, Shotokai karate centre, 41H Town Range. Monday: 9:30 p.m. & Wednesday 9:45 p.m.

Karate: Shotokan karate midday Mon beginners, other students 8.30pm. Thurs 8.30pm. In town at temporary dojo or privately by arrangement. Contact Frankie 54038127 or info@fhmedia.co.uk.

Motorboat Racing: Gibraltar Motorboat Racing Association Tel: Wayne 200 75211.

Muay Thai and Muay Boran Club: Tues & Thur at Boyd’s Kings Bastion Leisure Centre at 6:30pm, Tel: John – 54024707 FB: Gibraltar Muay Thai Netball: Gibraltar Netball Association (affiliated FENA & IFNA) competitions through year, senior/junior leagues. Tel: 20041874.

Petanque: Gibraltar Petanque Association.

New members welcome. Tel: 54002652.

Pilates: Intermediate Pilates: Tues & Fri 9.30am, beginners Pilates: Fri 10.50am at the Shotokai Centre, 41H Town Range. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com Gibraltar Pool Association: (Member of the EBA) home and away league played on Thurs through out the season, various tournaments played on a yearly basis both nationally and internationally, Tel: 56925000 gibpool@gibtelecom.net, www.gib8ball.com Rhythmic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Rhythmic

Gymnastics Association runs sessions from 4 years of age, weekday evenings. Tel: 56000772 or Sally 200 74661.

Rugby: Gibraltar Rugby caters for all ages from 4 years old to veterans (over 35’s). It organises competitions and sessions for Juniors; 4 x Senior Clubs; Veterans team; Touch Rugby and a Referees Society. Email admin@gibraltarrfu. com or visit www.gibraltarrfu.com Sailing: Gibraltar Yachting Association junior/ senior competitive programme (April - Oct) Tel: Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club at 200 78897.

Shooting: Gibraltar Shooting Federation. Rifle, Europa Point Range (Stephanie 54020760); Clay pigeon, East Side (Harry 200 74354); Pistol, near Royal Naval Hospital (Louis 54095000).

Snooker: Members of European Billiards & Snooker Association - facilities at Jumpers Bastion with 3 tables. Professional coaching for juniors/seniors. Organised leagues/ tournaments and participation in international competitions. Tel: 56262000 / 54000068, or info@gibraltarsnooker.com Squash: Gibraltar Squash Association, Squash Centre, South Pavilion Road (members WSF & ESF). Adult and junior tournaments and coaching. Tel: 200 44922.

Sub-Aqua: Gibraltar Sub-Aqua Association taster dives for over 14s, tuition from local clubs. Voluntary sports clubs: Noah’s Dive Club and 888s Dive Club. Tel: 54991000.

Commercial sports diving schools available.

Time - Thursday 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m..

Telephone, Jenssen Ellul - 54027122 Swimming: Gibraltar Amateur Swimming Association (member FINA & LEN) opens its pool for leisure swimming. Junior lessons, squad for committed swimmers, water polo.

Pool open Mon&Thurs: 7-10am, 12.30-4pm.

Tue, Wed, Fri: 7-10am, 12:30-5pm. Sat: 3-5pm. Sun: closed. Mon to Fri from 5-6pm groups training. 6-7.30 squad training. Mon, Wed, Fri 7.30-8.30 swimming joggers, Tues & Thurs 7:30-8:30 junior Water polo. Mon, Tues & Thurs 8:30-10pm Adult water polo. Tel: 200 72869.

Table Tennis: Gibraltar Table Tennis Association training and playing sessions, Victoria Stadium, Tues 6-10pm and Thurs 8-11pm with coaching and league competition. Tel: 56070000 or 20060720.

Taekwondo: Gibraltar Taekwondo Association classes/gradings Tel: Mari 20044142 or www. gibraltartaekwondo.org Tai Chi: Tai Chi for children and adults.

Mon-Thur 6.30-8pm at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre and Sat 9am-1pm at the Yoga Centre, 33 Town Range. Tel: Dilip 200 78714.

Tennis: Gibraltar Tennis Association, Sandpits Tennis Club. Junior development programme.

Courses for adults, leagues and competitions.

Tel: Louis 200 77035.

Ten-Pin Bowling: At King’s Bowl in the King’s Bastion Leisure Centre every day. Gibraltar Ten Pin Bowling (members FIQ & WTBA) leagues, training for juniors and squad. Tel: 200 52442.

Triathlon: Hercules Triathlon Club organises swimming, running and cycling training sessions and competes regularly in Andalucia and Internationally. Contact chris.walker@york. gi or Facebook “Hercules Triathlon Club” Volleyball: Gibraltar Volleyball Association training, indoor leagues, beach volleyball competition, 3 v 3 competition, juniors and seniors.

Tel: 54001973 or 54885000.

Yoga: Integral Yoga Centre runs a full programme of classes from Mon-Fri at 33 Town Range. Tel: 200 41389. All welcome.

Theatrical Groups Gibraltar Amateur Drama Association: Meet at Ince’s Hall Theatre Complex, 310 Main Street. Tel: 20042237.

Trafalgar Theatre Group: Meets 2nd Wed of month, Garrison Library 8pm. All welcome.

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On his fist commercial flight, Zeus discovers the discomforts of budget travel. Upon arriving in the Eternal City, the Father of the Gods finds his Roman relatives are no longer there...

BY PETER SCHIRMER ‘

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Year’s resolution to repair the celestial bridges on their own and suffer the poshere’s an English saying that “Rome wasn’t built in a day”,’ Hera damage had been taken in a warm-hearted tural discomforts of an easyJet flight. remarked, surveying the ruins of moment brought about by an excess of the Forum. ‘But it looks as though festive spirit and the rum-soaked remnants The venture had started badly. An arguof several Christmas puddings. they started building, and then ment with a Gibraltar Airport Customs gave up,’ she continued, gesturofficer who confiscated a small flagon of The New ing at the stretch of weathered Ambrosia which, along with sarBut the general enthusiYear’s resostones punctuated by a scatterdine and marmalade sandwiches, asm for a family reunion lution had They ing of marble columns. Zeus was had waned as past Hera had prepared should they been brought certainly concentrating on the large ice slights and rivalries were feel peckish before reaching about by were not cream cone with its mix of strawGatwick. (They certainly were not recalled: Artemis’ clash an excess going to berry, pistachio and chocolate he going to pay the exorbitant prices with Diana over whose of festive pay the had chosen from a gelateria at of the in-flight menu.) More conarrow had brought the foot of the Capitoline Hill. spirit and the down a golden stag; the exorbitant tretemps in the departure lounge tangling of tridents as where Zeus was refused entry to rum-soaked prices of Poseidon and Neptune the Calpe Suite and its stock of The Father of the Gods and his remnants the in-flight free booze. And his whispered fought over the ownerwife had arrived in the Eternal of several menu. ship of a particular pod curses soon after take-off, when City from Gibraltar the previChristmas the growing discomfort of fitting ous evening on a surprise visit and Hebe’s arguments puddings. with Bacchus and several other limbs into seats designed for midgets beto their Roman cousins, Jupiter cousins over the relative merits came unbearable, sent a shudder through and his consort Juno, which the Boeing 707, playing havoc with the of Retsina and Chianti. they hoped – or, at least, Hera and their cockpit instruments and springing the children hoped – would end the millenoverhead lockers to cascade carry-on casnia-long family feud, whose origin none of The children’s decision was unanimous. es onto several passengers, including Zeus. the Olympians could remember. The New Their parents could repair pantheonic 94

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satire the comfort of his robes. And he sulked as he chomped Spaghetti a la Romana, followed by Pizza Neapolitana and Tiramisu. The missing luggage Hera, contained all the presents for the who, with Jupiter family – the fluffy monthe wifely keys (which in no way resembled wisdom their neighbours atop the Rock), of many the illustrated plastic place mats, millennia, the miniature red telephone kiosks, and the quaint old British suppressed post boxes. the urge to

point out that it had been his idea.

‘This was all a dreadful mistake, we should never have listened to the idiot that suggested it’, he muttered to Hera, who, with the wifely wisdom of many millennia, suppressed the urge to point out that it had been his idea.

‘We can’t go empty-handed’, said Hera.

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‘What on earth are they doing?’ Zeus rumbled, moving like a matador to dodge a camera-tipped bandillero, and, as he did so, almost losing an eye to another.

‘They’re taking photos of themselves’, Hera told him.

But this morning the sun was shining and, ‘We’ll see about that’, said the reunited with their suitcases and Father of the Gods, as he dodged presents bundled into a large yet a third camera. He slipped his Moroccan-style carrier bag, the hand into his jacket and fingered couple had emerged cheerful from the the mini thunderbolt which had escaped Borghese Gardens hotel, with its view of Gibraltar Customs’ electronic scan - and St Peters’ dome dominating central Rome.

Hera’s eagle eye - as he pocketed it before But there was a problem – Rome was far leaving the hotel. bigger than they had expected (‘Apollo should have warned us’, and ‘You should He resisted the temptation to hurl it into have seen that yesterday’ Zeus grumbled) the camera-clicking horde, and, instead, - for they had assumed that, like their own merely squeezed it, immediately emptying old home Mount Olympus - or even the the memory cards of 21 assorted Japanese new one on the Rock where they cameras, and causing the malhad fled from the tide of refufunction of turnstiles at entrancThe gees which had made Greek life es to the Forum, the Capitoline celestial a nightmare - that of the lesser Museum, and the Church of San couple were gods would be easily found.

Cristobal.

Leaving the hotel they had been approached by a young man in a saffron robe and a Hari-Krishna haircut. Could he help them? It would be his pleasure to do so...

miniature red telephone kiosks, and the quaint old British post boxes.

Fish and chips was not on the menu, he gloomed, as he changed from the constriction of his traveller’s attire to

Looking across the ruins of the Forum, the celestial couple were suddenly engulfed by a group of chattering Japanese with ‘selfie-sticks’ stretched before them like diviners’ rods.

Robes, he believed, should be a pristine white.

suddenly engulfed by a group of chattering Japanese with ‘selfie-sticks’ stretched before them like diviners’ rods.

The onward light with Emirates was Zeus eyed the young man’s robe Halcyon, but they arrived in with something akin Rome to find porters were on to disgust. Robes, he The strike at a rain-soaked Leonardo believed, should be a missing da Vinci Airport, though this pristine white, though luggage hardly mattered - their luggage his own was being had been mis-routed to Berlin. contained all laundered – the dribbles Zeus had grumbled throughand droplets of last night’s food the presents out their taxi ride into Rome, and drink offered an unsightly – the fluffy ignoring the magnificence of the monkeys, the menu of his meal – and today, at Colosseum and of Hadrian’s Gate Hera’s insistence, he wore a dark illustrated with its retinue of pines, ignoring blue two-piece suit acquired in plastic place even the sleekly expensive shops a half-price Debenhams’ winter mats, the of the Via Veneto. sale.

His plaints had continued, despite the five-star luxury of their room and the exciting promise of a well-stocked mini-bar, when Hera decided they should eat in their room.

the tourist throng at the bottom of the Capitoline Hill.

They were looking for the family Jupiter, but the only address they had was Rome, Hera explained to the young disciple. Ahh, the Jupiter temple in the Forum was their most likely bet - though they would need a taxi to take them there... And thus, 15 minutes later and 30 euros lighter, a Bengali taxi-diver had dropped them amongst

The turnstiles still were out of order when, 20 minutes later and after wading through rivers of tourists, the Olympian couple reached the museum entrance; but, paying 10 euros each, a uniformed commissionaire let them in through a side door which gave onto a wide hall and atrium flanked with marble statues punctuated by man-sized hands and feet of what must once have been titanic figures. They recognised carvings and a bronze model of Jupiter and Juno as well as Mars wrestling with a lion and Neptune rising from a wave of horses, but of the Roman gods themselves there was not a sign.

Zeus stopped a passing curatrix, and, gesturing to the bronze of Jupiter and his consort, asked where the actual living gods were. She looked at him askance, puzzled, and then replied with a smile: ‘Oh, they left Rome seventeen hundred years ago – banished by the Emperor Constantine. Of course, if you want some heavenly-being more up to date, you can try St. Peter’s square. Go on a Sunday’, she laughed and bustled on her way.

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CHESS COLUMN

BY GRANDMASTER RAY KEENE OBE This month’s game is a sensational win from the Tradewise tournament in Gibraltar 2016 by a 16-year-old player. In a seemingly arid situation, the talented teenager outmanoeuvres the experienced former champion to score a filigree victory. Many players would have abandoned the position as utterly drawn, yet the white player’s fine sense of positional and strategic advantage, combined with his persistence, brought home the full point. Of particular note was White’s decision on move 29 to inaugurate an exchange of bishop against knight. On an open board the bishop is usually superior but White observed that here an exception was in force.

White: Benjamin Gledura Black: Viswanathan Anand Gibraltar Masters 2016 Semi-Slav Defence 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 Nc3 e6 5 e3 Nbd7 6 Qc2 Bd6 7 Bd3 0-0 8 0-0 e5 As Anand would certainly have been wanting to win this game he might have preferred 8 ... dxc4, maintaining some tension. After the text, the game quickly simplifies into a very arid endgame.

9 cxd5 cxd5 10 e4 exd4 11 Nxd5 Nxd5 12 exd5 h6 13 Nxd4 Qh4 14 Nf3 Qh5 15 Bh7+ Kh8 16 Qf5 Qxf5 17 Bxf5 Nf6 18 Bxc8 Rfxc8 19 Rd1 Rd8 20 Be3 Be7 21 d6 Rxd6. (diagram 1) Anand has had this position before as Black, against Maxime VachierLagrave in Paris 2013. In that game, White tried 22 Re1 and the game was swiftly drawn.

22 Rxd6 Bxd6 23 Rd1 Bc7 24 Kf1 a6 25 h3 Kg8 26 b3 Rd8 27 Rxd8+ Bxd8 28 Ke2 h5 Now life becomes difficult for Black.

28 ... Nd5 is dead equal.

29 Bg5 An excellent move. Now Black has to waste a lot of time untangling, allowing White’s king to assume a

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dominant position.

29 ... Kf8 30 Kd3 Ke8 31 Bxf6 Bxf6 32 Ke4 Bd8 33 Ne5 Ke7 34 Kd5 Bb6 (diagram 1) 34 ... g6 looks better.

35 Nd3 Kd7 36 Nc5+ Bxc5 Surprisingly, this pawn endgame is winning for White, despite the symmetrical pawn structure. The last chance was 36 ... Kc7 although after 37 Ne4 Kd7 38 Nd6 Bxf2 39 Nxb7 Black faces a difficult defence.

37 Kxc5 Kc7 38 h4 Kd7 38 ... b6+ 39 Kd5 Kd7 keeps the white king out but doesn’t help. After 40 b4 Kc7 41 f3 Kd7 42 g4 Black faces insoluble problems: 42 ... g6 43 gxh5 gxh5 results in a fatal weakening of his kingside while 42 ... hxg4 43 fxg4 Kc7 44 h5 wins. In order to prevent 45 g5, which will create a winning outside passed pawn, Black must play 44 ... f6 but then 45 Ke6 will mop up.

39 Kb6 Kc8 40 b4 Kb8 41 f3 Kc8 42 g4 After the pawn moves run out on the kingside, Black will not be able to prevent the white king decisively entering his position.

42 ... hxg4 43 fxg4 Kb8 44 h5 f6 45 a4 Kc8 45 ... Ka8 is no better. After 46 Kc7 Ka7 47 Kd7 White heads towards g7.

46 Ka7 Kc7 47 b5 a5 47 ... axb5 48 axb5 Kc8 49 b6.

48 Ka8 Black resigns 48 ... Kb6 49 Kb8 wins.

CHESS PUZZLE 2 Black to play.

This is from Bellon Lopez-Aravindh, Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2016.

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