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...

On the train ride to Granada the surrounding landscape became particularly dry and red, olive trees covering many areas.Highly recommended by Michael 'Mystery' Taylor, Granada turned out to be another of the great stops on the trip. This was because a lot of the variables with backpacking fell in our favour in Granada, those being we had great weather, a nice hostel with friendly staff, and even better roommates and fellow guests.Our new friends included studen...

Ambitiously, we aimed to cross the border back to Spain and another beachy spot in Cadiz. From Lagos this involved about 9 hours in buses, but with the laptop armed with four seasons of Entourage episodes the time flew by and we made it without a hassle.While georgraphically it a cool spot (more or less an island) Cadiz was nice enough without being particularly good for any reason. It had some fairly pedestrian buildings and monuments to see, lots of little ou...

With the big red tourist buses pulled up outside of the train station at Toledo, it was all too easy to pay and jump on one for a look around and save us walking into town. The bus started by going up around the hills surrounding the city, giving us a great view and some photo opps to start the visit. http://www.offexploring.com/barack/albums/madrid-and-toledo/8108978It was stinking hot and there wasn't much respite given it was a largely stone dominated, walled...