Spain - Days 5, 6, 7 & 8 - BarcelonaWeds 18th - Sat 21st of February 2009Okay, so I do realise that it is now the 12th of March, and I am writing a blog entry from almost a month ago - but I've been soooo soo busy. Well not overly, I just haven't really been bothered. So lets see how much I can actually remember from the trip now!Wednesday morning we were up early, and had a nice breakfast with the woman who run the B & B. We packed up the stupid little K...

Spain - Day 4 - Mastering the right hand side of the road - Trip to ValenciaTuesday 17th February 2009It was the day, both Dan and I had not been looking forward to. The 600km trip from Granada up to Valencia. I thought I'd better have a go at driving again, plus Dan had read all the maps and knew exactly how to get there! We set off from the Hotel at 9am and jumped straight on the freeway, into a Granada traffic jam. We poked through the traffic for a while, un...

Spain - Day 3 - Trip to Granada and La AlhambraMonday 16th February 2009We awoke nice and early with our day planned. We would make the 140km trip inland to Granada, to visit the historic Alhambra and Generalife. We packed up our bags and said goodbye to the Casa Babylon Hostal, the non English speaking host, his gigantic dog, and the overwhelming smell of incense. We trekked down to the car park, paid the 40 Euro fee and departed the party city of Malaga. We had...

Spain - Day 2 - The weird and wacky side of MalagaSunday 15th February 2009Hola amigos.We are currently in a cute little B & B on the seafront of Valencia. And boy are we stuffed. I think I have walked more in the last 3 days than I did for all of last year. And not just normal walking - up massive, monstrous, gigantic mountains. Okay, so they were just hills, but they were steep. After enjoying our Pizza, cooked by Turks in Spain - Dan and I slept like babi...

Spain Day 1 and Dan's First entry.Saturday 14th February 2009Hiya, Dan here. Thought it was about time I did one of these things, so here I go.Now if I were a superstitious boy, I would think the world was trying to tell me something. Lucky I'm not.After giving Benita a Valentine's Day card, a rose and cooking great bacon and eggs, we missed our bus to the train station. A second bus came 8 minutes later, just in time to reach the station and watch the 9.02 train...