Milan and Lake Como - 28-29 August TO BE COMPLETED Day 1 - flight to Milan, exploring the central city and duomo, first Italian food, world expo 2015 Day 2 - Varenna at Lake Como and AC Milan vs Empoli at the San Siro

Valencia and La Tomatina with Festivals All Around - 24-27 August We arrived at our hostel at around 6ish and chilled out until our La Tomatina introduction meeting at 7.30. Here we discovered our itinerary for the next few days and discovered that it started immediately! After quickly changing we jumped onto the buses and headed into the old town. Here all 200 of us jammed into a tapas restaurant for dinner and drinks to start the night. As you can imagine atte...

Barcelona - 21-24 August I arrived in Barcelona at around 5 in the afternoon and checked into my hostel. The woman on the desk was one of the rudest people I have met and she seemed to think that I was extremely thick. The hostel itself was quite nice though and I met an Aussie guy in my room called Aaron who told me about a street festival he had stumbled on the night before and was heading back to that night. It was called the Fiesta de Gracia and was a massiv...

Carcassonne - 21 August For my night train to Toulouse there were no more beds so I had to sit in a seat. They weren't particularly comfortable but it did make it a very cheap night! I had originally been meaning to catch the train from Toulouse straight to Barcelona but I had seen that the train stopped in Carcassonne which I recognised from a board game I used to play. This led me to decide to jump off the train here and spend a few hours. I found a hotel wher...

Paris - August 16-20 After having to wait an afternoon at the train station in Basel I eventually made it to Paris at about 8pm on Sunday night. By the time I'd found the hostel it was late so I decided to just eat at the hostel bar and plan my time in Paris. The next day I was up early to be picked up from the hostel for the free walking tour of Paris. There were only a few from my hostel and most of them were Spanish but when we got to the centre of town there...