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...