...and for this section dear reader I am reaching into my rucksack, pulling out the Aluminium Foil and making myself a tin foil hat, which I will now place on my swede....... Since we started this trip, we keep seeing many doppelgangers....of famous people, friends and workmates. So much so that me and Grant have started pointing them out to each other....it's really weird...they are almost exactly the same but with very slight differences. Now I would suggest t...

Last time we were in Santander it was nightime and raining so we didnt really get a chance to have a look at the place, this time we've got a bit of time on our hands before hitting the rails to Madrid. Santander is not a bad place at all, what I most liked about it was lots of independent shops, the hustle bustle and a pretty easy going manner of the people there. Everyone is well dressed and I didnt see anyone out in the supermercados in their pyjamas, like I s...

...and for this section dear reader I am reaching into my rucksack, pulling out the Aluminium Foil and making myself a tin foil hat, which I will now place on my swede....... Since we started this trip, we keep seeing many doppelgangers....of famous people, friends and workmates. So much so that me and Grant have started pointing them out to each other....it's really weird...they are almost exactly the same but with very slight differences. Now I would suggest t...

...and by Christ you should have seen us......So we head to the bar and seating area on deck 8....it's an impressive space.....it's about 10.30 pm by now...and thoughts are of what time does the bar shut? turns out we've only got an hour to go.....so it's stand by the bar and watch the goings on..The bar crew are French and sort of unfazed by the anxious Brits determined to drink as much as they possibly can in the time allotted....things are generally calm as we...

"Dont go in the pub...Dont go in the pub" was today's Mantra...today is going to be a long one as our Ferry has been delayed by 5 hours....which means originally we'd have been casting off at 4.45 pm....now it's going to be 10.30 pm......so we're going to have to pace ourselves....we check out from the Hotel at 11.00 am and make an effort to walk around Plymouth Hoe which takes us about 1.5 hours.....our little walk then takes us back outside The Dolphin pub........