Barcelona, Spain
In year 8 I convinced my parents to let me go to Spain with school, it would cost £300 with one condition that I raise my own spending money. So I got myself a paper round, not just one but 3 paper rounds. I would wake up at 6am and do 2 before school and then 1 after school as well as after school clubs, guides and cheerleading.
To get to Spain meant a coach journey from Darwen to Dover, a ferry to France and then another coach journey through France to Spai...