There are two experiences that no visit to a new city is complete without 1. Getting lost on public transport 2. Accidentally ending up in the dodgy part of town Today I completed both of these!! I already took ẃrong turns on several occasions and ended up in decidedly dodgy parts of El Ravel, thanks to my delightfully situated hostel. Today I did a double whammy... First I got on the wrong train at Plaça Catalunya station (rule number one, never run for a ...

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 ...