I have had the best time in Valencia but I haven’t done much at all. I find during the day it’s to hot to enjoy the city, so I just laze around . Most days I have sat up on the terrace listened to music and had a few “drinks”, and played some DS. Most nights I have been hanging out with people that I have met and head down the square once the terrace closes, the square is great fun for people watching. The other night there was a fight between 2 of the guys that wander around and sell beers. It was more like a clown act though, one guy was running away and kept falling over whilst the other guy kept throwing swings but couldn’t quite catch up. The stray dog just added ... read more

Yesterday was another day of relaxing, I planned to go out but I ended up getting caught in the conversation and before I knew it, it was 5pm and there was no point heading in to Barcelona central. We ended up sitting around “drinking” and speaking more crap than usual . Time flew by, we had the police called for a noise complaint (it’s stupid to have a hostel in a residential area) which was fun… The next day being my last day I thought I should definitely go and check-out Barcelona. I left at noon and first had to go to the main train station to arrange my train ticket to Valencia, I had to wait for 1.5 hours for my number to be called!! I then walked straight towards La Rambla which is the ... read more

Naples is amazing definitely my favourite city that I have visited in Italy, it feels like a traditional Italian city rather than a tourist driven city which is fantastic. Yesterday I got in to Naples around 2pm from Rome, when I got my hostel I was blown away. In contrast to the last hostel it was a palace, the hostel actually use to be a fabric factory (hence the name the Fabric hostel) so it was massive. the common room had high ceilings, a flat screen TV, comfy couches, table tennis table and free internet (which is a god send, except when I tried to connect with my laptop it didn’t work, so I used their PC’s ). After I had checked-in and dropped my stuff I thought I would have a wander and check out ... read more

The last thing on my list to check out was St. Peter’s Basilica. I walked from the train station which took about 30 minutes as it was quite close to where the Roman castle was. When I got there I found a giant line of people, I had no choice but to jump on board in the blistering sun. I also had to turn my shorts in to pants as you can’t show your legs otherwise you don’t get in. Awesomely the line moved pretty quickly and I was in within 15 minutes. Now it was good but not great, I preferred St. Paul’s cathedral in London the art was more epic. Don’t get me wrong this was still awesome, I walked around snapping photos and I took a video of it too. I then moved ... read more

I believe the Lonely Planet guide states it perfectly, “There are more ruins than dog turds in Rome”. This fact is completely and utterly true as I saw no dog turds but 100, no a billion ruins (may or may not be exaggerated). It is so crazy just walking around and no matter where you look there is something that is around 1000 years old. The ruins appear to be more of an inconvenience than an honor to have, as they have to build roads and buildings around them. Yesterday I caught the bus at 11am from the hostel and got in to Rome around 11:30 I then had to try and orientate myself (as I found Rome is not on the list of free tour destinations ), I did this by well…picking a direction and ... read more