The oldest city in Western Europe, with many nice buildings and museums to look around.. we made our way to Cadiz. Not for what I've just mentioned but for the beach! A long awaited beach day. I had to force Nicola out of bed at 7.30 this morning, we were both close to deciding to get the later bus, but it would have been a waste of the day. We had to walk pretty fast to the bus station and luckily made it on the bus just in time. The beach was great! We mana...

We had a fairly smooth journey on the nightbus. However we were visited by the police, who rudely interrupted what little sleep we were getting, by allowing a big black fierce looking German shepherd dog to shove its nose around our seats. I know he gave Nicola quite a fright. Luckily our bus was not found to be part of a drug cartel and we mananged to be at Sevilla by 7.35. It didn't take us to long to find our hostel. The heat was apparent straight away - ple...

Today has been an interesting, slightly challenging day but exciting too. I have to report that our plans have changed. Instead of the beautiful Northern mountains and beaches we have decided to tackle the heat of the South of Spain. Let me tell you why. This morning we got up at 8am, after a frustrating night of trying to find places to stay in the North. We could barely find anywhere that was not booked and if we did it would have cost us more than a week's bu...

Today we didn't drag or force ourselves of bed, instead we slept until 11.15! We couldn't believe how long we slept. Maribel, host mum, gave us a big breakfast of toast, cake and biscuits. I was relieved that she didn't pour us bowl of cereal and flood it with coffee which is what she once did last time. We had a couple of hours so we walked round Salamanca again. It was great to find a viewpoint that you could climb up for free and see a view of the city. Altho...

An early get up at 6.30 was difficult this morning. We had to meet a lady who was driving us from Madrid to Salamanca at 8am. All went well and it was great to spend 2 hours talking to Patricia in Spanish and Nicola enjoyed the extra sleeping time. We arrived at 10am and went straight to the apartment of the family we are staying one night with. They are a couple that I stayed with 3 years ago for 2 weeks when I came to Salamanca for language lessons and work ex...