Foreign Perspectives

The problem living here is that you can drive to an enormous number of places within a day or so.

I thought of Geneva first but I think it would be a little cold this time of year and it’s a little far to go for a short break I think (about 6 or 8 hours drive).

Northern Italy would also be nice and has the advantage that we could drive a little further south until it got warm enough for us but it too is around 8 hours drive.

I’d quite like to see more of northern Spain but to get beyond the Basque Country (which is very industrialised), it’s over 8 hours drive. Also the weather is pretty similar to here and we’re looking for somewhere a little warmer.

So, it’s looking like it’ll be in the direction of Barcelona. Not the city itself though as that’s a pain to park in and we’ve seen a lot of it over the last couple of years. Sitges (a little south of Barcelona) sounds interesting and I’ve seen it on the videos for the Spanish course. Again, the advantage is that we can go further south ’til we get the temperature we’re looking for. We might even manage a visit to Port Adventura whilst we’re there.