Another cycle into Vilanova i la Geltru this morning to get the train to Tarragona where we managed to cope with the ticket purchase and actually even get on the right train - no small feat! We had decided to head to Tarragona today as it was market day and that was much more appealing to Megan (who is adamantly on half-term holiday and so will not talk about Romans) than the fact that the Roman ruins are a World Heritage Site. We therefore started the day in th...

We decided to head into the local town on the bikes this morning and had a fun cycle down to a town which was much bigger than we had expected. We wandered down the Rambla, stopped for coffee and practised our Spanish before heading to the port and collecting some train timetables and tourist information - not quite sure where the time went really! Unfortunately there was no way round the fact that we cycled downhill the entire 4km to the town and so we had to ...

Slightly thrown by waking up to rain this morning putting pay to our day by the pool and so we decided to get the bus into Barcelona. Without much planning we managed to get off at the right stop and head down Las Ramblas to the Mercado de la Boqueria where we enjoyed a very varied lunch put together from the many market stalls before heading on to Place Reial with M&D now in full flow with the photography. At the end of the Ramblas we got the lift up to ...

We set off in the dark this morning - not that early but the sun is not rising until nearly 8.30 here in Spain so we watched the sun rise as we drove through the wine region and on towards the Mediterrean coast. Some how we managed nearly 6 hours of driving - hopefully the longest drive we're going to have to do for a while - and so treated ourselves to dinner at the campsite restaurant once we were all settled in.... all ready for a few days of half-term holida...

I think it's safe to say that we all loved this place! Completely unexpected as we were just hoping for somewhere ok to sleep the night before heading on, we were stunned by the amazing setting of this nature park and couldn't resist spending the day there. We saw elephants, bears, giraffes, tigers, gorillas, hippos, jaguars and much more in the stunning scenery of Northern Spain with the natural contours of the mountains separating the various animals - comple...