woah, crazy days. basically turns out that may day is a big deal in Europe and the following days are holidays everywhere also. I couldnt find a hostel for the 1st to 4th of May in Madrid, Barcelona, Cannes, Nice, Geneva, Madrid or Rome. After this i just gave up and decided to just travel on the trains like mad, figuring id just try the tried and tested method of just turning up and winging it. Tonight im staying overnight in a well seedy hotel i "luck...

today we booked our train for irun on the boarder of spain and france: from there we just basically hope we can get a train to Madrid that isnt fully booked (as a lot have been recently; so,e hjoliday in france or something). if we canget an overnight one we can save money on a hostel. We recently started recording how much we are spending and although paris was very expensive... we are confidant we can last 3 ,onths co,fortably: essentially we budget 25Euros...

real quick post, we are rat bordeaux and its a dump at 11:30pm. keyboard keys all wrong so hard to type. we are making our long way to madrid were hostels are half price and we can chill for a bit; exhausted after frantic sightseeing in paris and at mount st Michael. dont forget to check out kates blog at offexploring.com/katelucywhitham for more pics and stuff. we sometimes share cameras to save battery etc: stupid foreign keyboard: Arrive Madrid tomorrow...

Well we took Tom's advice to check out these free tours, and WA-WAH-WEE Wah it was good. In 3.5 hours (list time, turned out to be more like 6 hours guide) we must of seen just about all the sights of Paris central. In context, the day before we spent 6 hours and only managed to identify 2 of the main ones, the tower and De Champs-Elysees! That inside knowledge helped us a lot and the guide was excellent. We tipped 10Euro for the first guide, and then went on ano...

First Entry! Well its cold, at times wet and cloudy with bad visability but as I write this the first ray of sunshine is pouring in and I'm sat here at the computer!The hostel we are staying at is St. Christophers, a brand new purpose built mega hostel which incidentally is one of the more expensive in Paris, which in turn is one of the more expensive cities in Europe! Personally, im looking forward to staying in skankyer accomadation, though im sure I'll be ea...