I was going to start this post with, 'Dear Spain, For gods sake hurry up, I've been standing here for 5 minutes already while you talk on the phone/gossip with your coworker/instant message your online boyfriend', but I decided I was getting dangerously close to slamming every culture I experience on this trip and I don't want this blog to get (too) negative. Even though I know you all secretly like it when I complain because it reconfirms everyone's suspicion th...

I have to admit, my last message about Tomatina was written through some rose coloured glasses. It was overcrowded and full of tourists. Yes it was fun, but it was hardly a Spanish experience. As I mentioned last time, for this week in Spain I've been with a fairly large group. One of the guys travelling with us is a local, and mentioned that the village he is from has an annual festival a couple of days after Tomatina. As it was fairly close to Valencia, it made...

Sorry for those of you who enjoyed my blog last year, this ones been pretty crap by comparison. I'm still in Spain; however most of it's been more of a holiday than 'travelling'. So far I've spent time in Tarifa, Seville, Granada and Valencia and whiled the days away investigating the variety of tapas each city has to offer, kicking back on the beach or city park soaking up the sun or working on building up my pitiful red wine tolerance through the joy of Sangria...

Hi there everyone, I'm pleased to see you all again. I'm kicking back in sunny Granada at the moment in the South of Spain. There isn't a whole lot to do here but wander the 'labyrinthine alleyways' of the Moorish quarter where I'm residing and sample the 'myriad of tapas bars' that line said alleys, so I thought it was time for an update on my going ons recently. There are only really two things of interest that spring to mind at the moment. The first is a day t...

I've just spent two weeks in Morocco and haven't written a thing about it, so here we go, I haven't had any specific experiences that require a story of their own, and so here are some blog capsules of what I've been doing recently. Morocco is a bit confused. It's on the African continent, the majority is Muslim, everyone speaks French but all the papers and magazines are in Arabian. I may have to write a letter, especially to the guy that didn't tell me about th...