It is Saturday afternoon and we have just arrived at Heathrow, now waiting for our third and final flight today. We left Graeme's at 6.45, saying goodbye to the delightful Alex and Claudia. All felt sad but the early wake up meant they were all still half asleep. Stopped at Barcelona airport, now here and on to Manchester. I told Nate the weather would be rainy and I think he was disappointed to see a sunny day! I'm sure a week in Manchester will make him want t...

Happy New Year, hope you all had a great night and not to much damage was caused by potato throwing. We all saw in the New Year in Portimao, Portugal. Portimao is a coastal town about 2hours 30min from Seville. We took part in an old Spainish custom where you have to eat 12 grapes in 12 seconds when its midnight. Apparently this will bring us good luck for the year. The weather has been fantastic in Portugal, sunshine and about 21 degrees. We spent both days at t...

We have just returned from an afternoon in Niebla, a small town of about 4000 people and a fantastic medieval castle surrounded by a complete city wall. The town itself is quite average, yet the ´castillo´is still almost complete and we had a wonderful couple of hours wandering inside and reading about how they lived and , in the dungeons we were given explicit details ,pictures and REAL devices of torture. They certainly were very inventive when it came to wee...

Claudia and her friends at the party

The castillo at santa Olella del calla