And so the journey begins....

Second attempt in Spain. Started off in Barcelona. I have to say I love this place. It reminds me of South America minus the high rates of poverty and with better hygine The vibe of the place is just intoxicating. It has made it on my list of places that I could live in. So I hit all the major tourist sites with one of those hop on hop off buses. I would have normally walked but I was feeling particulary lazy and the sites are so far apart from each other... a good excuse as any to take a bus :P From Bacelona I headed south to Valancia. This place is pretty cool. It has a very different feel about compared with other cities in Spain. It is sort of a cross between Madrid and Rio. Very interesting all the same. While I was here I checked out the so called Holy Grail, a gold and amber cup. I could so see Jesus hauling that thing around with him :/ Anyway it is sort of but not really sanctioned by the Vatican. Valencia has some really cool park lands in an old creek/river bed! Some pretty funky play equipment for the kids. Next stop on my route south was Granada. After a midnight train ride there via Madrid (a touch out of the way) I arrived. Decided to walk to the hostel, bad choice! It was so hot and so far to walk and it all ended with a decent climb up a hill, I was also packing an extra 4kgs of photos that I hadn't sent off yet. Granada is a cool place to check out. The Alhambra was amazing I wandered around in there for about 4 hours. From Granada I headed down to Algeciras to catch a ferry over to Morocco for my next adventure.
Algeciras is horrible, well around the port and the train station is. I got my ticket and then they cancelled the fast ferry due to bad weather. But not bad enough to cancel the normal boat. Well as I found out it was more likely cancelled due to lack of people. The normal boat was just about empty, and the sky was blue and the ocean calm... go figure.