Our train from Lyon to Zurich took quite a spectacular scenic route via Geneva, with the lakes and snow-capped mountain peaks making for some quality photo opps. We made it to Zurich early with the aim of having a good look around that afternoon, as we only had the one night there thanks to its much higher accommodation prices than anywhere else thus far.In the city the price difference with everything else was immediately obvious too, for example, a Big Mac Me...

It was onto Lyon and, as was becoming our standard in France, into the cheapest Ibis Hotel. May have already typed this earlier, but for the benefit of anyone going to France on a budget in future, we found some Accor Hotel options were often the same price or cheaper than hostel options.Like our incredible thai feed in Edinburgh, we unusually had a great, cheap chinese dinner to start our time in Lyon. The next morning we were up and about at 6am to watch the ...

After a long day of trains and train delays we had crossed back into the south of France, and the popular riviera city of Nice. Despite being autumn the pebble beach was still quite popular for relaxing during the day and young groups of people drinking and socialising at night. Our first day, we took a walk along the beach to admire the sky blue waters before checking out the old town and heading up Castle Hill for a great view of the city that extended along t...

As we moved east the temperatures were starting to drop and the rain was becoming more threatening, and when we hit Barcelona it poured like crazy on the first night. We were left somewhat stranded at Burger King due to the downpour, although some might argue this was quite convenient considering the BK's in Spain serve beer!We looked along the harbour and beach areas the next day as the rain had let up for a little while. It was easy to see why, in summer mont...

Arriving at our Valencia hostel at 6am, and after some conufsion with dates after an email they failed to receive from us, we lucked out on getting into a room and getting a few hours sleep to make up for the lack thereof on the train.Once we rose again we checked out the large central market and the area around Plaza de Ayuntamiento while also trynig to sort out our next lot of train travel, which proved to be a bit of work. We later took another walk toward Pl...