Duquesa Village Estepona

The adventure has begun! I met up with my new Canadian friends Katy, Dan and Sarah in London, Gatwick for 1 night at the Gatwick Belmont Guest House. The plan was to all shares a quad room but we were offered two doubles instead which worked out quite nice, we just shared a bathroom. All of us did the "getting to know strangers" celebratory beer… that turned into 6 or 7. J Some of us were hurting pretty badly in the morning for the flight but it ...

This is by far the most beautiful city I have visited in Spain! Ronda is where the first bullfight took place and is home to the oldest bullring in Spain. The other students and I started out the day listening to one of our professors give a speech about the history of bullfighting, very interesting but after three hours I was ready to see Ronda. We then went to the bullring and had the opportunity to go inside where the fights take place. It was a feeling like no ...

... un joli endroit où écouter de la musique live (un caveau semi-ouvert sur le ciel - on voit les étoiles!!). Trois français (2 guitares, 1 violoncelle) jouent du flamenco, de la musique des balkans et partent en live!! au final, trois de leurs amis les rejoignent et terminent en apothéose!! Je voyage pendant tout le concert, je grave ces musiques dans mon esprit pour qu'elles m'accompagnent dans les montagnes sur mon vélo!

... in Spain. A few of us couldn't resist getting fish and chips for lunch. The streets of Gibraltar are very hilly and narrow, and the view of the water and The Rock were beautiful. Our tour guide first took us up to the Europa Point. Here the Trinity lighthouse marks the southernmost point of Gibraltar and the end of the Atlantic Ocean and the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Although we were there on ...

... mower, giving him the nickname Victor John Deere. Laughed very ******* that one for quite a long time. Pete - I think our time with the Sutho's brought plenty of laughs - especially our Segway experience....Daves Victor moment and Shaz's Segway dance. Scariest Thing Harri - Tom's face Tom - Nothing I'm not scared of anything..."I'm like Batman. Shaz - Watching the Sutherlands want to die on the sail from Rome to Olbia and wondering if well ever be ...

... one girly scream later with a monkey on my back swatting at my face i threw my muffin as far as i could and the monkey ate it and gave me the dirtiest look. ****in monkeys. ohwell, i wasnt hungry anyways.,... yes i was.. the first stop down was st micheals caves, they are famous caves in the mountain not created by ppl for tyhe war but created by thousands of years of rain dripping in and slowly dissoving the rock with its acidity. there HUGE. and then man made a theater ...

... had gone home or off to the next part of their travels Des and I were left alone, again. Just the 2 of us. We've had lots of time to contemplate how far we've come and how far we have left to go (man do we have a long way to go yet). It's been really nice. We've been cooking at home and watching DVDs and smiling a lot as the cool ocean breeze blows in through the open french doors. We took a road trip to Gibraltar one day. It's officially a British territory (did you know ...

... resplendent houses of governors, the bobbing Bobby helmets of the plods walking by and, just to complete the picture of mundane British urban life, rubbish bins and letter boxes all emblazoned with the royal coat of arms just as they would in London or Edinburgh. Cute. No wonder the Spaniards are continually irked by ...

... anything, only counting money. What there were, were a lot of fat, friendly cats everywhere, and a lot of duty-free booze and cigarettes. After crossing the main square, Katri stopped at an ATM to take out cash, which was silly as her bank card had been non working for about a week, but she just wanted to check it. She inserted her card and heard a weird clunk...it turns out the card had just fallen into the machine. There was no mechanism to suck it ...

... isossa tippukiviluolassa ja ajelimme sitten kohti suuren piirityksen aikana rakennettuja tunneleita. Gibraltarin enemmän tai vähemmän kuuluisiin apinoihin saimme ensikosketuksen jo luolan edustalla, silä niitä istuskeli ja juoksenteli aika paljon parkkipaikalla. Apinat eivät pelänneet ihmisiä ollenkaan, vaan katselivat ohikulkijoita tyynesti ja tulivat heti lähemmäksi, jos haistoivat jossakin olevan ruokaa tarjolla. Mekin tarjosimme automme konepellille kiivenneelle apinaurokselle viel ...