Actually the beach didn´t look anything like the photo but thereś not much choice til I upload my own!! What can I say.. another dia fantastica! I am sunburnt, and it feels good to be so. I had forgotten how much I love that smell of hot sunburnt skin (you know when youve been out in the sun and you smell your shoulder and it has that hot sun-smell? No? Just me??!) I suspect the reason for my burning is that I spent four hours this morning cycling. I rented a...

Ok so I am typing this on an extremely old jkeyboard with very sticky keys so excuse all the typos I will come back and edit later!! I have now been in Barcelona for three days and I am having the most f***ing awesome time!1 I love travelling and being away and I have continued to practise my spanish in a most successful way :D I started off the day today boarding the tourist grockel-bus once again, at 9am when it was pracically empty, to cruise along the beach...

It's never going to be reassuring when the most common reaction to finding out you're going to Barcelona is "my mum/sister/aunt/friend/neighbour got robbed there". Seriously, it's like EVERYBODY knows somebody that fell foul of pickpocketers in this Spanish city. So I was very nervous about this!! I actually am wearing a money belt for the first time in my life, keeping my hand absolutely clamped on my handbag zip and viewing everybody around me as a potential ...

22nd June My final exploration of New Zealand was up to the very northernmost section, the Northlands. I took a 4-hour journey from Auckland to Paihia with the most fantasticly and memorably named Naked Bus company. It was a great relief to discover that clothes ARE worn on this bus, mainly for the reason that my big bag cannot shut with all of my clothes, hoodies and jeans in it, there just is not the room! During my time away I have become an uber-bus-geek and...

Driday 18th June I returned to the north island after my adventures down south, to take a trip around the less-visited East Cape. I'm already kind of sick of the kiwi experience and its mothering, "make sure you put a jumper on" style of tour-guiding but at this time of year there is no other option for visiting this part of the country as the other bus companies stop running tours out here in the winter and the public bus network does not go this far o...