Downtown Paraiso Hostel

... (as it is only about 60 degrees in Madrid) I gathered my things and headed for the metro. No sooner had I stepped outside my hostel than a blast of heat enveloped me, it was almost 80 degrees outside and there was not a cloud in the sky. Rather than ...

... on, and also Barcelona FC were playing Manchester United in Barcelona so there were a lot of drunks about, which made walking to our hostel down narrow alleyways and bit dodgy. But we got there in the end and went straight to bed. We only had 1 full ...

... have been for the price - cost us over €200 - Oops! But we arrived here safely and amazing found our hostel very easily! YES Heather has actually made it into Barcelona without the police been involved and been sent home! For those of you ...

... Sunday night. After taking what seemed like every mode of public transport (airport bus, train, metro) we finally got to our hostel. Crashed for a couple hrs, woke up at 1130pm, and headed to Hard Rock Cafe to watch the Superbowl. Was pretty crowded, ...

... down La Rambla at the same time that we were on Wednesday night. Jerrica and I got churros and hot chocolate..it was so good. Their hostel was on the beach, so on Thursday we met up with them to spend the day on the beach. It was beautiful..the wind was ...

... me a free lift for the last 2km. James arrived from New York looking a bit shabby and we caught a ride to our budget hostel in downtown Cancun. Cancun is more than a little odd as there is a 20km long hotel strip on a thin sand spit surrounding a large ...

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So after a late wakeup due to the superbowl on till 4am we were ready to explore the town. The weather wasn't great for the first couple days - a lot of rain which stopped us from seeing a lot outside, so we tackled the inside things we wanted to see in ...