Madrid is so hot... Making it hard to do much walking without wanting to sit in the shade every 5 minutes. We did our best though, we had a walk around to see the sights, such as the royal palace and it's gardens which were so grand and beautiful. We wandered through some plazas on the way to the huge park on the other side of the city. On the way we had some lunch and I dragged minty into a coffee shop so I could have some Spanish hot chocolate, which when I had...

Despite seeing four clouds today it is still so hot, we can hardly take the heat. As it is our last day here though we still went out and even tried the tube. We have come to realise that there is no point getting up early here as the city does not start moving until about 6pm, it seems so quiet for a capital city but that's probably because we are in bed when they start to party! After a late get up we got the tube to Estadio Santiago Bernabéu - the Real Madr...

Buenos dias amigos! I am afraid to inform you that it is now back to Lucy doing the blog, if I had known Minty would have got such a good reception I'd never have let him near it...

Please look below for my attempts at the entire last day of barcelona! Having nightmares with internet. I didn't mean to leave that horrible comment on it's own! We have arrived in Madrid! Horrifyingly long journey, up at 6 to get the replacement bus and then the tube to get to the big bus which left at 8. It would be just our luck that the one time we don't stay at the drop off point we get the one off flaw in Spanish public transport. Although to be honest the...