Back to realtime again. We´re coming to the end of our time in Madrid, tomorrow Bowler Sparrow Travels heads to Argentina, whilst Cuch heads home to London. We´ve been staying in Peñagrande in north west Madrid with Carola Aikin (an old friend of Maia´s mum), her husband Jose, and their kids (8 year old twins Clara and Julia who talk like donald duck and Mateo whos 12 and much quieter). The house is fairly huge so we´ve got our own rooms...

1 bus and 2 trains got us to Zafra, Extremadura. We were trying to get to the nearby village of Feria, where Cuch´s mum has a house. After what seemed like hours of wandering around with heavy bags and empty stomaches we discovered the bus we were looking for didnt exist and eventually got a taxi to 6 Miraflores, which was to be our home for the next week and a half. Theres not that much to tell to be honest. Feria doesnt have that much going on. They do ha...

It seems we´ve got a little bit behind again so let´s catch you up quickly. The weather in Granada meant our last day was mostly spent drinking sangria and playing cards. We just about managed to get ourselves up the next morning to get the bus to Lanjaron, although we ended up missing it and waited an hour. We went to visit Maia´s cousin, Charlotte, who lives half way up a mountain just outside the town of Lanjaron (about an hour south of Granad...

As predicted, getting to Granada was a bit of a nightmare. We left at 10.30 and didnt get to our guest house in Granada til about 9.30. We're up in the hills with a view of the Alhambra. Its lovely here, the place is like a house and it's so relaxed and homely we've decided to stay another night and recharge our batteries as we're all a little rundown. Today we got up a lot later than intended, had a fry up and played with the 5 week old puppy, Theodore, that th...

woohoo we´ve caught up with ourselves and we can actually write im real time. we arer in valancia. its gorgeous and boiling but sadly we´re leaving tomorrow (we only got here yesterday). we´re staying in a brilliant youth hostel called the purple nest. its in an amazing old listed bulding with proper old style spanish floor tiles but its been done up in bright colours with ikea furniture. its got a bar, a pool table, a terrace loads of computers, ...