Monday evening, 6th September. The ferry dropped us off on the opposite side of the island to where we were staying so it took us another couple of hours to finally get to our accommodation. It was a 12 hour journey all up. Ferries are well and truly dead to me. Never again. First impression of Ibiza was pretty much what I expected. The island really only has one commodity.. Nightclubs! Every billboard or advertisement is promoting an event at a nightclub. Every...

Lewis and I were both pretty content to just hang out in Barcelona and not do a lot. We had obviously been before on contiki and had already seen all the main touristy stuff. And we hadn't really had any downtime since the trip started so I think we were both looking forward to relaxing a bit. Day 1 we rose early after a quiet night and hit the beach. Was pretty relaxing. Barca's main beach is alright, sandy with a hint of a wave. We decided to exert ourselves b...

Left Croatia for Spain on Monday the 23rd August. Was a 5pm ferry but it didnt take off till 6. Bloody Italians are useless. The ferry was taking us back to the familiar territory of Ancona, where we had to get to the train station by 1am, to catch a two and a half hour train to Bologna Airport, from where our 7am flight would take us to Valencia. Sounds hard enough but it was made even harder when we turned up at Ancona train station to find that the next 3 trai...

We arrived in Croatia nice and early on the 12th August probably looking a bit worse for wear after the epic journey from Athens. Some Croatian lady approached us as we got off the boat and offered us a room in an apartment that was uptown a bit. That'll do we thought. On first inspection of the room we were pretty disappointed in our impulse buy. One double bed with no floor space equalled our room. But after realising how good our location was I think we were b...

Mykonos to Santorini was another few hours in the ferry. Or it could have been more, I can't remember to be honest. I probably slept the whole way. Mykonos had ruined me. We docked into Santorini mid-afternoon and were immediately blown away by its beauty. Being an old volcano, the cliffs of Santorini shoot up about 100 metres, while the body of water in the heart of the island is 400 metres deep, which is pretty amazing. After checking in, we had a couple of h...