The journey from the pleasant port city of Santander to "Full English breakfast with a nice cup of Tetley tea" menus of the resort town of Salou, has given us the insight to many different sides to Spain. First stop was Picos de Europa National Park and a cable car ride up to 1850 metres with wonderful views of mountains up to 2600 mts. We found...

We had a ball in the park ( http://www.portaventura.co.uk ) We found it a lot easier to get to all the rides here than we did in Disneyland Paris since they're not so spread out so there's a lot less walking. There is a train around the park here too but we only used it once or twice for the novelty of it whereas it seemed to be more of a necess...

An overnight train from Nice to Barcelona, not quite up to the standard of the Chinese trains. We were a little disappointed, but still managed to sleep very well, we were exhausted. Arrived in Tarragona, nice place but we again forgot that everything would be closed. We didn't have much to do so we sat on the beach and read our books, until it ...