Friday 23rd JulyLISBON > SEVILLE - Cool to HOT Today was mainly on the bus. Arrived back into Spain - Seville for 2 nights. After a nana nap, Michael, Peter, Cass & I headed to Plaza de la Alfalfa and did a tapas crawl around the square stopping at each tapas bar and having 2 tapas and sangria at each. After a few too many Sangrias we jumped in a taxi to take us to a 'Disco'. We ended up on the other side of the river with 2 clubs to choose from. First on...

17 - 19 July MADRID, SPAIN 17/074hr bus ride from Valencia to Madrid. Countryside is very dry but lovely sunflower fields, olive trees and lots of wind farms and solar panels. Someone threw something at our bus before we had even left valencia and it sashed the window, luckily 2 layers so the driver just smashed off the outer window and we continued on our merry way. Hotel Ganivet in Madrid, really centrally located so we wandered upto Plaza Mayor which is a lar...

13th July - Barcelona to ValenciaFirst up checked out the amazing markets in Barcelona which is a ype of activity selling fruit, meat, fish, cheese etc. It definatly catered for the tourists with precut fruit etc but also the locals were there doing their shopping. Such vibrant colours of fruit and vege. We grabbed some breakfast and sat in a square at the top of La Ramblas which had the potential to be really nice but with all the squares and what you beleive in...

Early flight from London to Spain to meet Cass. Our flights got in 10 mins apart so that was convienent. When we met up, realised neither of us had the details of the hotel we were going to so it took us a good hr and half to find a internet that worked! Go our organisational skills! Got a bus into the main train station / top of Las Ramblas and foudn our hotel. Hotel Gaudi was nice and cheap, about 20m off LaRamblas. Aparently it is across the road from a famou...