Continuing — about Gibraltar: last November my wife and I spent 8 amazing days in Gibraltar, representing Israel at a sporting event. “Gib” has an impressive, strong, and respected Jewish community (approx. 700 people) that maintains 4 shuls, elementary and high school, 3 kosher food stores, a kosher bakery, and a kosher restaurant that prepares meals and sends them to Gentile banquet halls, which know how to heat them up. A supermarket in the town carries some products with British and EU hechshers. The community is emphatically Sephardi and sees itself as sustaining the authentic pre-expulsion traditions. It has even published a collection of piyyutim with CDs. I have phone numbers if you want them.
All this, apart from the astounding qualities of the place.