adventures, please.
I'm a bit late to the party here pals given that we're almost one month into the new year, but at this particular moment in time I appear to be stuck in a hotel in Hamburg with not a whole lot to do; so what better way to fill the time than a casual reflection [...]
The Canary Islands, so named because the islanders apparently used to worship dogs (Canary/canine, get it?) are a little cluster of Spanish islands situated in the Atlantic Ocean, closer to the coast of Morocco than Spain or anywhere else in Europe. They’ve only been officially Spanish since the 1400s, and before then they were [...]
Oh my goodness you guys. My incredibly pessimistic view on life is that if you have little to no expectations of people/places/things, you will rarely be disappointed (it may be pessimistic, but it also means I'm pretty much always having an awesome time by default). The island of La Palma is a PRIME EXAMPLE of [...]
Cádiz is a place which I knew absolutely nothing about until the day our ship docked there, and had it not been for that one day I doubt there's any reason that I would ever have considered visiting. It's just not one of those places you hear very much about, is it? Set on a [...]
If you're not the kind of person that loves package holidays, English breakfasts in non-English places and sunbathing until you're red as a lobster, you might be thinking Lanzarote is not the location for you. Well YOU THOUGHT WRONG, MY FRIEND!!! Not only did my grandad live there back in the day, but in more [...]
Now let's get one thing straight here, homies- I am not very good at having a 'proper' holiday, in the traditional sense of the word. I can't sit still for long enough, and feel guilty if I'm in unchartered territory that I'm not actively exploring. Your average human being goes away to relax, but when [...]
Perched on the South East corner of Spain (although some would argue that it's not a Spanish city but a Catalan one) Barcelona is one of the most interesting and simultaneously downright AWESOME cities I have ever been to. Now that is quite a claim. The only reason that I even knew very much about [...]
