It's fair to say that our tastebuds were more than ready for Spain by the time we touched down in Barcelona on a balmy Saturday evening. Hola Espagna! I had booked a reasonably priced guesthouse on the internet, which almost seemed too good to be true for the price as its located right in the heart of the city. 'Allys Guesthouse' is just a short walk from such famous landmarks as La Sagrada Familia ('the Sacred Family'), which is the 128 year old 'work in progre...

This latest post comes to you from the stunning town of Cambridge where we finish our tour of the mother country before we fly out to the delights of Spain. We have spent the past four days visiting Majella and little Lucy (6 months old) up in the town of Catterick (near York), Northern England, which was a fantastic opportunity to re-charge the batteries before the next leg of our trip. Catterick is situated in Northern England up near the Scottish border a...

This latest post comes to you from the stunning town of Cambridge where we finish our tour of the mother country before we fly out to the delights of Spain. We have spent the past four days visiting Majella and little Lucy (6 months old) up in the town of Catterick (near York), Northern England, which was a fantastic opportunity to re-charge the batteries before the next leg of our trip. Catterick is situated in Northern England up near the Scottish border a...

The morning we set off for Salisbury, home of the infamous Stonehenge, you could have probably heard Marco snigger from the southern hemisphere as our taxi driver to the car hire place questioned why on earth anyone would want o visit a 'pile of old rocks' (clearly...UK Tourism has some work to do on educating its citizens on local famous landmarks!). We picked up the hire car from central London and were advised that we had to fit our child seat ourselv...

So after 12 bad filter coffees, 5 powdered egg omelettes, 45 episodes of friends on the in-flight entertainment (and before you snigger at least I wasn't the only person on the airplane actually watching the 'Emirates' channel so I could learn about the company and its fleet...Marco), 13 scowls from fellow passengers directed at one hyperactive Oscar, 8 arguments over whose turn it was to change the nappy in the tiny airplane bathroom (I lost every one of them).....