Spain

Good Evening All, today our update is from SUNNY Seville. Hooray ! Mind you it did rain yesterday, but at least today has been beautiful. Our hostel in Seville has a roof top terrace which is great to sip on an OJ and watch over the city (I really mean OJ since we are both still getting over our illness). Tonight we are going to watch some flamenco were the deal is 3.50 Euro for a Corona and a shot of tequilla, so tomorrow we may be sick but in a different way ! Today we travelled to a former Muslim fortress known as the Alcazar, which was quite stunning. The Spanish elite have modified it a lot over the years and the arctitecture doenst have a thing on the Roman stuff, but the gardens out the back were beautiful *I will try and attach some photos). From here we went and did a tour of the bull ring, which looked really good. Only one man has died from a bull in the last 100 years, and I have a photo of the bulls head who got him (revenge is sweet sometimes). We are still debating whether or not to go, as it is pretty cruel to the bulls, but as they say, when in Rome (or Seville). All in all, Seville is quite a nice little spot, with a fair bit to look at. Still I would be lying if Amelia and I didn't say we are looking forward to catching up with friends in London !

Speak to you all soon.

Gracias !

The past couple of days in Valencia have been quite relaxing. We took a stroll down a former river bed which has now been turned into a beautiful park complete with science muesums and art galleries. Perhaps the Torrens could take a leaf out of the Valencia book ! The facinating thing about the city is that it is really up and coming, in that it hosted the Americas Cup last year and it is hosting a formula 1 race either this year or next year, yet it has quite a lot of gypsy villages around these sites. This amazing thing is, these gyspy villages take up prime real estate right on the Medditeranian coast. A prime real estate opporutnity for those looking for a holiday shack (note that this area is home to paella, so it has its positives) ! The city also is the home to the wholy grail, but Amelia and I coundn´t be bothered paying to see a cup so we just went inside and took a photo of a tapestry of the cup, close enough !

Unfortunately as a result of the continued rain in Spain, Amelia and I are a bit crook, but I´m sure if we keep eating the local oranges we will recover fast enough ! Tomorrow we venture south to Seville for some flamenco, tapas and bullfighting !

Until then, Adios

We finally left Barcelona this morning at 7am and we have now arrived in sunny Valencia. We have already found a nice food market, the hostel is nice and the town seems a whole lot friendlier than its northern neighbour. We are about to head off and have a look at the holy grail, the closest we will ever come to it anyway. If only I had downloaded some Hunters and Collectors.......

Speak to you alll soon

Adios