Paint the town Red, White and Blue

This year I have seen Gibraltar go very British but also very Gibraltarian, as the date for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee came closer and closer. The town seems to be painted red, white and blue with more and more people hanging flags outside of their windows and even some estates have gone all out and painted entire areas in our national colours.

The estate that seems to have painted the most is Moorish Castle - they have gone all out with the painting of walls, stairs and even the floor. This has been done in the past but never in the scale which I have seen this year as every inch of the estate has been painted.

Unfortunately when I took the pictures they were still painting it and was not quite finished, but the tenants of the area showed me around and explained what they were planning to paint and it was mindboggling.

But they are not the only ones caught up in the colour fever - everyone in Gibraltar is doing it either by putting flags out or painting flags. I think we have not seen this level of Britishness hit Gibraltar since 1969 when Gibraltar saw an explosion of red, white and blue and flags due to the referendum. Even we have put our Gibraltarian flag on the roof terrace and have planted smaller Gibraltarian and British flags around the house.