Today we decided to take the day off and spend it in true spanish style, lazing on the beach and the letting the rest of the world go by without us. Life is not meant to be a stressful event, there's nothing like getting away from it all to remind you of that. If the last few years have taught us anything it's that you have to just do what makes you happy while you can, whatever that may be, and appreciate the good things you have in your life. Problems will co...

This morning after a magnificent sleep in we cooked up breakfast and ate it on our veranda as the morning slowly warmed up, what a life. We used this leisurely start to do some research of where we should stay for the rest of our journey along the French coast into Italy. Once we finally got up and had showers, we headed into the town of Tarragona, finding a safe place to park in the local shopping centre on the far side of the city centre. The Rambla looked lik...

This morning we were up, packs on, walking our dusty track back to the train station with the sun gleaming against another clear blue sky. We were off to the airport, not for a plane, but to pick up the car before heading south to Tarragona. **We got a French car in Spain to drop off in Nice and picking up an Italian car there to drive into Milan. Essentially we're helping return those cars to there correct countries and in doing so we'll avoid the expensive one...

This morning we started our trek from the truck stop to the city of Barcelona. A 25minute walk along a dusty old track followed by a 35minute train ride and we'd reached our destination! We've found one of the best ways to orientate yourself quickly in a new city is to make use of the "hop on, hop off" tourist buses so off we went (or should I say on). We hopped off first at a great park area and walked ourselves through it in search of the cable car t...

Today we had one goal, to lie in the sun and do something about our pasty Melbourne winter skin. The shuttle to the airport was picking us up at 3:50pm so we had most of the day to relax by the pool before our flight to Barcelona that evening. The flight from Palma to Barcelona is quick, as soon as you reach altitude you start to descend again. I barely had time to work on my crosswords and Sarah was frustrated because she just wanted to keep reading her book, t...