Seven days of Summer in Spain - GranadaJun 26, 2008
From Madrid we caught an awesom bus to Granada. One of the Spanish bus companies do a 'supra' bus, which is basically leather seats, extra room and a service the rivals British Airways'. We arrived half way through the second half of the Semi Final of the Euro 2008 to empty streets and much cheering when Spain scored. Granada was even hotter than Madrid, the Friday was scorch...
Seven days of Summer in Spain - MadridJun 24, 2008
From San Sebastian we caught an early bus to the capital. About 5 hours later we arrive to a stinking hot Madrid! Our hotel was lovely and thankfully the air con was in excellent working order. Madrid was a couple of days of eating and drinking (more tapas - and a fair bit of it free!) and exploring. A wonderful tradition/custom in Spain in giving you tapas when yo...
Seven days of Summer in Spain - San SebastianJun 21, 2008
After visiting Barcelona last year, we decided that we really wanted to go and see some more of Spain. So as June brings good weather, we booked some flights and off we went. Flew into Bilbao and caught a bus to San Sebastian. About an hour later we arrived to approx 35 degree heat. Perfect weather considering our hostel was about a 5 min walk from the beach. Shame the weather didn't la...
We visited Dublin for the first time since being in the UK with Mihail and Dimi. A lovely little city, friendly people and a ridiculous number of pubs and drinking places.
As Euro 2008 kicked off this weekend, we spent the evenings watching the football and even managed to win ourselves a little money.
Dublin feels very European and is a far cry from London.
Still loads of people everywhere, pa...
