This morning, we had a delicious breakfast at home with Moroccan tea! Yahya had gone to school already so it was just the four adults left. We headed into Aranjuez for the morning so Mohammed and Hanan could show us around and also pick up some printer cartridges to print some materials for therapy at home. Aranjuez is a UNESCO world heritage site with the old palace that the prince lived in. Surrounding the palace are amazing gardens - immaculately kept by score...

This morning started off by making the most of the free hot chocolate, decaf coffee and hot water at the hotel. We filled up our thermal mugs ready for the car journey and filled up our flask ready for noodles for lunch. The next 6 hours comprised of driving / being a passenger on the journey from Barcelona to Ontigola. We stopped for our noodles (this time with the addition of tinned veggies) at a rest stop but it was pretty cold and wet so we ate it in the car....

We left France today! Just 2 hours of driving and we had crossed the border into another country - Hola Spain! Well actually Catalonia depending on who you talk to. From Carcassonne, we headed back towards the coast of France and took the highway down to Barcelona. The border crossing was over in an instant and the only sign that we had entered another country was a simple sign saying 'Benvinguts'! That and also the fact that the sun came out and we could see blu...

We left Lyon at about 9:00 this morning ready for the 4 hour drive to Carcassonne. It was a smooth drive with wider roads and not too many gear changes. We stopped on the way at a picnic/rest stop and had 2 minute noodles prepared using our flask of hot water. We reached Carcassonne at about 2:00 and checked into our hotel. As we only had one afternoon in Carcassonne we soon got back in the car to drive the 6 kms into the centre. We had planned to use public tran...

The main aim of today was to get the winter tyres put on the car. It was a pretty wet day so it was a good day to be doing boring jobs like this! We thought a trip to the Peugeot garage would be a good start – they were bound to have the winter tyres for our car considering our car is a Peugeot – wrong! They didn't have our tyres and the guy rang the main Peugeot garage who also didn’t have any. Plan B was to try Speedy – a garage chain in...