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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Great few nights in San Sebastian, went into the crazy tourist party scene and hung out in tiny bars with millions of people, always good times. and another few hard days lying on the beach. Lucky to have a hostel full of cool people but all went our different ways as I headed to Biarritz in France, only an hour away! you can actually walk to france from S.S! i had to get 2 trains and at the change over station I was unsure of where I was…France or Spain, still dont know, they dont even look at your passport! after the first hostel was full moved further down the beach to Anglet to a super cool hostel with great people, haning out with 2 very very Irish girls, fulfilling all my stereotypes at once. So spending my days sitting on the beach and my nights in crazy campsite bars and on the beach, weather is nice but not fantastic, its a big surfing beach so full of too-cool surfers, but I just drop some cool words in like ‘tube’ and ‘backwash’ and I can be cool as well.

Went to this very crazy chocolate museum I swear run by August Gloop’s mother from charlie and the chocolate factory. Intersting experince.

Not spending too much money which is great and cooking up some tasty pasta meals and stealing breakfast food for lunch!

well off to the beach now for a nap!

“I`m sorry, we´ve got no room left”

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

thats what Im getting used to hearing now. Everything is always booked out! esp in weekends where everyone takes off to the nice beach places on cheap flights, unfortunate for us backpackers as weekends mean nothing any more. So after I found I had no bed in Barcelona had a bit of a stressful day trying to figure out what to do next. Should I go to France?? No theres atrain strike plus everyone coming from Nice said it was packed. Had no bed for the night so needed to go on an overnight train somewhere so cant go anywhere to close…should I go to San Sebastian…we´ll thats what I want to do but everywhere I ring is full…and everywhere around San Sebastian don´t have any youth hostels….aarrgghhgh dont know what to do!!! Well eventually I thought I might as well get the night train to San Sebastian (North about 9 hours on the beach very close to French boarder) beacause then I can postpone my worrying till at least the next morning. So went off to buy a very expensive train ticket and spent the afternoon eating sandwhich by the sea and went and saw another very amazing Gaudi house. Grabbed my bags from the hostel and took off to catch my night train which I happened to get a bed on which was a nice surprise. The whole sleeper section happened to be full of backpackers heading to San Sebastian who also didnt have any accomodation so that made me feel better!

Had a surprisingly good sleep and arrived around 8am to begin the search for a bed. It was kind of funny after making friends with all these people on the train once we arrived everyone got a bit suspicious that other people might steal their beds so everyone took off very fast!! Kind of funny

Anyway the tourist office directed me to a place a good 30 minutes walk away (with my heavy pack!) and luckily they had some space. Interesting hostel, kind of like a YMCA, big and no common area but clean and has kitchen and awesome free breakfasts. Meet some cool people from Canada and a guy from NZ so we cooked up a huge lunch and then I slept all afternoon. Today was a great day, myself, Ash and Christina (NZ and Canadien) went up to this hill and then walked along the beach. Brought nice food, sat on the beach…it was a really nice day, nice weather, good times. So no need to be worried as things always turn out in the end!

 

and then there was one

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Well I'm back to being by myself again as Mum and Sarita flew out on their stupidly cheap easyjet flight to London this morning. A wee bit sad but should meet up with them for at least a day in ... [Continue reading this entry]

Relaxing in the Spanish, oops I mean Catalonian, country side

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
In Spain if you live in Valencia, your not Spanish you Valencian, if you live in the area around Barcelona its Catalonia, they have they’re own language and sort anal about the whole not being Spanish thing, and then there’s ... [Continue reading this entry]

Valencia part 2: Cirque du Soleil

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Ok…I have a bit more time to write now. So we went to the bullfight, like I said before a bit sick and strange that it still happens. And it’s funny because it’s this big manly sport but they all ... [Continue reading this entry]

I hate computers

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

for those of you worried (dont pretend I know you were) because I havent actually posted anything for ages...if anyone is actually reading this still (yes Grandma I know you are!) anyway I´ve been in the Spainish countryside for a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Bull fights, circus and more old buildings…

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Another overnight bus...I hate overnight buses, actually we almost missed it because we couldnt find a taxi that would take us to the bus station so we arrived 5 mins before the bus left, a bit hectic but luckily we ... [Continue reading this entry]

Granada and the big huge old building

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Granada is basically all about this huge old Islamic/Spainish castle/garden thing called the Alhambra. Apparently its really well known and can be hard to get tickets for, which I feel bit guilty about because Ive never even heard of it! ... [Continue reading this entry]

Europe…for more than one day this time

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Its been a few days since my last post and we´ve crossed over into Spain, into a clean country where stuff works, its kind of nice but soooo expensive. We left Chefchaouen and went to Tangier for one night. It ... [Continue reading this entry]

The Rif mountains and the disappearing camera

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

It finally happened, my camera got stolen, wwell I think it did, it seems to have mysteriously disappeared from our room or my bag or something, which is strange because I keep a very close eye on my camera but ... [Continue reading this entry]