Toledo, Spain

It took 40 minutes to drive to the town of Toledo from Madrid.  When we got there we started to walk and follow a map to a knife factory because Toledo is the home of metal!!  On the way there we passed dozens of knife shops with all the Game of Thrones swords and swords …

Madrid, Spain

Madrid is the capital of Spain.  We went to a lovely garden, well a huge park actually, called El Retiro. My Mum said she and her friend Annelisa called it Retirement Park when they went there when she was 20 because there were lots of old retired men there chatting all day.  There is a big …

San Sebastian, Spain

San Sebastian is also called Donostia in a language called Basque, because it is in Basque country between France and Spain.  San Sebastian is really famous for its food.  Pinxtos is where you go up to the bar and choose food on a toothpick stick and you count how many you have eaten like a …

Monserrat, Spain

We took a 50 minute drive to a place called Monserrat which is a town up on top of a rocky mountain.  We had to catch a rack train up to it because it is so steep to get up there. There was a model of the old rack train that goes up to Monserrat, …

Barcelona

In Barcelona we stayed in a really drab suburb out of the city that had graffiti everywhere. Barcelona is really full of tourists so it is hard to find a place to stay. We went to this super famous church that is still being built called La Sagrada Familia which means the Holy Family in …

Valencia, Spain

We had to go through a 3 hour drive from Granada to get to Valencia which is in south east Spain.  In Valencia we went to a paella cooking class and it was lots of fun, even though I got splashed by rogue olive oil drops that pop out of the paella pan!! The Valencian paella …

Granada

In Granada we went to the Alhambra and it was huge.  Half of it is physically a garden and we took a guided tour and our guide had to talk for 3 hours in the 38º heat!  The ceilings inside the Alhambra have a really cool architecture which make it look like you are in …

Cadiz, Spain

We spent one night in Cadiz in a hotel with a rooftop pool where you could see across the town.  Cadiz is on the sea down south of Spain, it is really close to North Africa which is only 60km away and you can get there by boat.  We had a really nice dinner in …

Seville, Spain

Seville is a city in Andalucía in Spain, we drove all the way from Setubal in Portugal and it took 4 hours to cross over into Spain.  They didn’t even check our passports.  Seville is hot, it was about 38º.  A lot of the streets are cobblestone and there are lots of horses and carriages …