A trip to Almeria with my folks. So picking them up from Alicante airport, with the thanks of Javi and his car we hit the road, heading south to a little place called Vera. It´s a golfing town with nothing much there apart from the course and the nudist beach. But off we went because my dad had work there for a couple of days. Stopping at a service station along the way and guess what, much to my mum´s surprise, they spoke Spanish. Now would you believe it, a ...

Sun, sea, beach, monuments, history and fun - Barcelona has it all!!! Friday afternoon we hit the road for the long journey north curtesy of Tono and his company car. There was a small glitch after 30 mins when Javi realised he didn´t have the keys to the free flat that we were staying in. With a slight detour back to Valencia we finally reached Barcelona, only a mere 2 hours after leaving Valencia for the second time. For the first night, dinner in a dark bac...

My liver is slowly recovering, my head has stopped spinning and I am beginning to beable to hear things again in both ears . . . means the festivities must be over. 4 days of none stop partying, something you want to stop but somehow your drawn into more, you want to see the new and exciting thing, as everyday is different. On the Friday - the hymn - which I was lucky enough to be invited onto a balcony that overlooked the masses of people coming to sing, unluck...

Sevilla - really hot and a beautiful city - nothing more to say. Apart from the map reading skills of me and the new found friend, Tam, left a lot to be desired. The instructions to reach our hostel baffled us enough without the added problems of things not being on the map, us holding the map upside down and just the general (and i'm tying not to be sexist) women can't read maps thing. We did stubble upon a fair few different lovely things whilst lost and also...

LAS FALLAS!!!! So i've been in Valencia for the last two weekends to see their festivity - the making and destroying of figures. Every area of town creates a different falla, sometimes even two an adult one and one for the infants. These can cost up to 190,000 euros to make and take practically all year, starting with the designing, fund raising (obviously) and the actual making of the statue. The first weekend most of the fallas were still in the building stag...