HI, From Madrid we went on to San Sebastian which is one of my favourite places in europe. Its the type of place were people go there intending on spending 5 nights and end up spending a month (as some of the people that we meet from busabout did). It is just a small beach town (which is supposed to have a surf beach, but it was a flat as a tac) but there are heaps of bars and just a really fun place to go out. When we were there there was also an international...

HI, Madrid was a nice city but to be honest there wasn't a great lot to do there besides visit the palace and just wonder around. So due to the fact that it was about 36 we spent one of the afternoons at the pool and just generally relaxed and had a few €2 pints at the hostel bar.

Hi All, Well we are now in Valencia in the south of Spain and it is bloody hot around 36 degrees. We arrived in here last night and had a relaxing day and today was spent cruising the city and heading down to the beach on bikes. We came here at a good time because Valencia is currently hosting the America's Cup so there was a bit to see around the harbour with all of the teams tents and buildings. We are heading off to Madrid tomorrow to have a look aroun...

Hi All, After the last email we sent in Nice, we went to Monaco the following day and had a look around at all the massive yachts and the went to the casino and watched a gut lose €15,000 in 30mins but I ended up about €40 up which was good. From there we went to Barcelona which is an awesome city and stayed for 5 nights. It has a reputation as a party city and I know why. We went on a pub crawl 1 night and then went to another famous club anothe...