Every so often in a long trip you're bound to have someone get sick, especially when you are travelling with children. For us, it came today. Maggie came down with some sort of stomach bug and was up all night losing fluid at both ends, poor thing. Of course, such events are sure to happen at the worst possible time - Murphy's Law. Today we star...

Abby, Fiona and I spent 3 glorious days in Barcelona. Sean Lennon in concert, expensive Sangrias, Las Ramblas, lots of Gaudi, tapas, funny tasting olives, gorgeous Spanish buildings, stealing a Sean Lennon poster at 3:30am, dancing to Spanish music in a club. topless bar men dancing on the bar, sunshine then pouring RAIN and one massive vending ...

hello everybody! i like writting in point form so here are a few things about barcelona 1. the water from the taps isn't drinkable so i'm spending a fortune on water every day to support my water habbit. 2. we went to a nightclub last night that was an old baroque ballroom. so it was awesome appart from the trashed tourists everywhere. it was fu...

This morning we just got up and headed right out to keep exploring. The first place we went to was Park Guell, which is also done by Gaudi. It is this large park that is all mosaics and it is absolutely beautiful. We just walked around there and looked at everything a million times over. Viv had studied all of this Spanish art so she absolutely ...

Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a ferociously independent region in Spain. It is a massive city that spills from the hills and runs into the Mediterranean. Barcelona was our first Spanish city and it hit us full in the face. The real kicker was Las Ramblas, a wide pedestrian street that cuts through the centre of town, all the way to the ...

I can´t do this. I am living on about three hours of sleep a day. We stay up until six in the morning partying, like the Spaniards do, come back here to the hostel and crash. But then, at around nine the construction workers start drilling and working all over the hostel. This morning some dude came into our room with a toilet in his arms and th...

1 August, 2002 Countdown to my arrival back in The States: Eighty-Seven thousand, Six hundred minutes -- more or less. At least we could all buy bottled water and generators for the Y2K thing, and then nothing happened, but for the next two months I don't know if I'm coming or going. This is a particularly confusing time here on my 'trip'. I am ...