From Almeria to Marbella, yesterday turned out to be one of the best days so far. Not necessarily in terms of distance travelled but our mood and the drivers we had were all amazing. We had quite a walk to get out of Almeria and it took a while but we eventually got a short lift from a man who distributes vegetables. He was telling us how he'd picked up some hitchers recently, who were also going to Morocco. He was only going 30km down the road but dropped us of...

On Saturday morning we awoke in Barcelona. Content with how far we'd come and full from the brilliant meal the night before. We began the day with a bit of sightseeing, following a walking tour from the Lonely Planet. We walked around most of the city, taking in the views and being really touristy. We saw Gaudi's famous cathedral, 600 years on and still with scaffolding up! I got a bit lost and we ended up missing a couple of the sights, but that just creates mo...

The last time I blogged, we were all feeling rather downcast but since then we've had some pretty good luck :) Thursday morning, we were up bright and early and made our way out of Bernay- we could never have stayed there for long as we were making the place look messy. It was about a 25 minute walk back to a motorway roundabout, where we set our stuff down and decided to try our luck. It worked and despite the lack of traffic round there, we got picked up by a ...

Le Havre. Never go there. Ever. If you do then first of all 'I told you so' and secondly, good luck escaping. Let's start from the beginning. We got the ferry from Portsmouth to Hell. Despite some technical difficulties and leaving 2 hours late we still docked an hour or so early. There were 2 other Hitch groups on board, one of them had already secured a lift down to the middle of France whilst the other, Jack and Alfie, were in the same boat as us. We rushed ...

So we've completed day 1 of hitch hiking and are now waiting for a ferry in Portsmouth! Beginning in Cardiff, we cheated slightly by getting my parents to drop us off at a service station on their way home. Once we were there we had to decide what to do. Writing 'Towards Reading' on a whiteboard, wearing our green, charity T-shirts and waiting outside the entrance we were ready to start. After 45 minutes of "sorry, I'm going in the other direction", head shakes ...