Today we headed into the centre of Madrid, near to Puerto del Sol. The main street is called Gran Via and has so many shops, bars and restaurants, hotels & hostels. Its about a 15 minute walk from our hotel. We search the hostels and gather some prices and eventually book into a place called Hostel Riosol for 2 nights as we are planning to leave Madrid on Thursday 6th July. After securing 2 nights we head to view the monuments. The sun is beating down, ...

For our second day in Seville after touring the city we managed to find an Irish bar which was full with English. We arrived just as the England v Portugal match was starting but still managed to find a spot right by the tv. We watched the game and had a few Jack Daniel's with diet coke - of course!! At half time I got chatting to a girl called Alex in the toilet queue. She was in Seville learning to teach English and was at the pub with others from England...

Hola, so here I am on my second day in Seville. We arrived here at 10am yesterday morning and we were both very tired having to leave for the airport at 1.30am. We started our journey on a coach load of 25 men heading to Spain on a stag do, they were quieter then Lucy and myself! Arriving in Seville the heat hit us straight away. We got to our accommodation where the taxi driver ripped us off but would not let us banter. Feeling slightly subdued we head i...