Paris Boat & Bus Tour Well, we arrived at the apartment after almost hiring a limo at the train station (ooops) and the lovely Virginia (apartment owner) let us in. She took us up in the old elevator (1934) and suddenly we're back to the elevator in Rome where you have an inner and an outer door! Virginia assures us it is perfectly safe! Virginia is a tiny thing, even shorter than me but she has so much energy that you feel a little old just watching her ...

Olympics! When we arrived in London yesterday, we were both surprised at how busy it was compared to when we left last week. Today, we experienced the Olympics! Safe to say it's thrown the city into chaos, whilst buses and trains are busy, the roads are gridlocked thanks to the Olympic Lane, a separate lane dedicated in each street solely for use by athletes, foreign dignitaries and controversially here it's also reserved for the sponsors. The funny thing is ...

Magic Fountain at Montjuic Locally it's called the dancing fountain or something like that but Sarah and I have named it the Magic fountain and we're sticking with it! The fountain is completely off during the week so when we saw it on the hop on - hop off tours we were not excited to say the least but TripAdvisor assured us it was worth it so we grabbed a taxi and off we went. The show starts at 9pm so we got there at 8pm to give ourselves time to get dinner ...

Barcelona Day 2 Barcelona continues to be hot. We continue to enjoy our laziest part of our trip by exploring the city by bus! The hop on-hop off has been a godsend and Barcelona is so spread out that they have two, east and west. Today we explored the west of the city including the old Olympic village and the mountains of Montjuic. Sagrada Familia Afternoon of Day 2 took us to La Sagrada Familia. I'm sure you've seen pictures of this church but until you ...

Barcelona Day 1 After getting approval from the hotel we're checking into NEXT friday to hold our bags, Sarah and I set off for our trip to Barcelona with only carry on bags! We took the Gatwick Express to the airport which is only 30 minutes and soon arrived in the midst of the biggest queue yet for check-in! One hour and 35 minutes later, plus one hour time difference - we stepped off the plane into the quietest airport we've ever seen. No people, no staff...