Happy National Day 2012

As we celebrate National Day here in Gibraltar, with a sea of Red and White, in London two important Gibraltar flags are flying.

Firstly, in Whitehall the Gibraltar flag is flying above the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as can been seen in this picture from Foreign Secretary William Hague's twitter stream:

https://twitter.com/WilliamJHague/status/245154135614304256


From now on the national flags of British Overseas Territories will be flown from the FCO on their national day or other significant days.

Sadly however, 10th September 2012 is probably not the best day for flag spotters to notice the flag, with the whole of london awash with flags for the Olympics Team GB and Paralympics GB parade.

However, any viewers watching the parade live on television (it is being shown on the BBC and on SkyNews), would not have missed Gibraltars own London 2012 olympian Gerogina Cassar proudly waving a large Gibraltar flag from *onboard* the float carrying the Rhythmic Gymnastics team which she competed as part of.

Best picture I can find so far online is this one, although the flag is sadly not wide to camera at this time:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A2b4zeRCcAAXD2c.jpg:large

While it might not be fisible that clearly in that picture, people have reported sightings as the watched the parade from as far affield as Hong Kong. (Anyone further away watching live?).

These two special flags will join the many other Gibraltar flags flying today. Including of course the one outside Gibraltar House, the London office of the Government of Gibraltar, located at 150 The Strand - and on todays parade route!