After a successful trip to Italy in the summer, Fara and I were off for another adventure - this time to the capital of Spain, Madrid. Although having been to Spain several times before, I had never been to the capital, and with friends in the city as well as some good flight times, it was a perfect destination for a weekend getaway in the autumn. We had booked ourselves an early flight out on Saturday and a late flight back on Sunday, giving us almost two soli...

After an afternoon in Andorra I headed back on the bus through Catalonia and arrived back by early evening in Barcelona. Having been to Barcelona once before I was a little unsure if the city would entertain me. However as this had been a day trip over ten years ago I was proved wrong. There was more than enough to keep me occupied. I started my adventures in Barcelona by heading out to see the Sagrada Familia by night, which was nicely lit up, before head...

After booking it just a week before, I flew to Gibraltar for a three day holiday, including a visit to Morocco. Flying out of the Saturday morning I arrived at Gibraltar airport, and took a quick look around the centre of the town before crossing the border into Spain without even stopping to show my passport and making my way over to the windy town of Tarifa - the southernmost point on mainland Europe, and where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic and there ar...

On our fifth day we took the long trip to El Ejido, and first visited a farm to see how ecological techniques can take place, before visiting the site of the worst race riots in Europe - a bit of an anticlimax when the only thing we saw was an African man shouting that he loves English girls. We then went to a fancy restaurant, where we walked in, sat down and grabbed a menu before being greeted. Saman's Spanish also came back as she exclaimed she wanted a Spanis...