Ever since I started teaching in 1999, I've been wanting to go on the class 12 school trip, because it sounded so great, all the things they get to see and experience. Off course it would never happen because I'm not teaching the older students. Until now. I was anyway going to meet the group in Barcelona and choose which things to tag along to, but when one of the teachers was prevented from going, I stepped in for her and was a finally on a class 12 trip for ...

I spend two and a half weeks at my mothers' outside of Torrevieja in Espana. Spring has been around for a while here, and it is deliciously sunny and warm. Evenings and mornings are still cool, and if it's overcast or windy I have to wear warm clothes. This is a first for me here, since I've only ever been here during the hottest time of the year before - when it feels like a desert and pretty much looks like it too. Therefore I'm especially keen to have a look...