Alemann Adventures

 Port Aventura Portaventura World Spain - by James Yes, another theme park believe it or not. I will try and summarize it as much as I can but it was just so cool considering it’s a theme park doing its bear minimin while it's for sale. Get ready for our experience at Portaventura. Portaventura has three different parks one of which is a waterpark which wasn’t open the time we were there.  We did a lucky dip on which hotel at the park we were going to stay at. We got El Paso, which is a Mexican theme and had an amazing buffet breakfast. On the first night we were there we decided to use that time to enter Ferrari Land which is the other smaller theme park out of the other two and only opens at night. The main attraction here is the iconic Red Force. A roller coaster which launches from 0 to 180km in just 5 seconds and goes up to a height of 112 meters. ( I sadly lost my phone at the top cause it fell out of my pocket, but somehow one day after that we got it back without a scr...

 Barcelona It's the French school holidays again (they only did 7 weeks and now have another 2 weeks off) so we are on the road to Spain. A different sort of holiday from the summer as we stayed put in the same place near Barcelona for 9 nights (after a couple of nights on the way at a trashy family resort). We stayed in a lovely 3 story apartment as part of a house swap agreement. The complex came with 2 pools but we were the only ones who swam as it was too cold for the Spanish. As well as swimming we had a good rest, went to the beach, played in the nearby park and visited the center of Barcelona a few times. These trips included visiting the MOCO Museum to see some of Banksy's art as well as other artists'. Visiting the Sagrada Familia - the most awe inspiringly impressive church we've ever been too. Walking around the historic areas and seeing the Magic Fountain do it's thing. Unquestionably one of our favourite cities to visit and we're glad we took some t...

 Andorra James now has a new favourite country in Europe! We spent one night in Andorra on our way to Spain. A much bigger country than we expected seeing as it has roughly the same population as Rotorua. The hotel was a typical ski resort looking place, and run by a former Eurovision contestant! With only a day we visited the capital, walked around a bit and saw the famous Dali sculpture. We then hiked up a mountain, because why not! The country is definitely set up mainly for the winter season with cable cars and ski lifts everywhere - just not operating when we were there. Each region also has a giant wooden creature set up a mountain to encourage kids to walk, so we found Andy along the way. Everyone is encouraged to carry a rock up the mountain and 'feed' it to Andy so of course we obliged (there was a hole in his back to add rocks to). Such a beautiful place and very inexpensive to visit, well worth a visit!