We spent a majestic (no pun on the upcoming royal wedding) weekend in London over Easter, cramped up in Oonagh's one-bedroom apartment with the kids.

The photo above is from the mini-carnival at E4's Udderbelly area on London's South Bank - it's been years (and years, and years) since I was on a helter skelter, but because Dan is slightly too small, they insisted that an adult accompany him.

You can catch this little tourist train on the Paseo de la Libertad, just beside the markets in Torrevieja. It's incredibly cheap - costs about 2 Euro for an adult and 1 Euro for children - and it takes you right through the coastal part of the city right past Playa Los Locos.

When I'm in another country, I love to take the occassional photo of everyday things like phone boxes and ticket machines. They're so damned foreign. Like the stuff you might find here, but different. Different colours, and littered with a foreign language. Sometimes you're lucky if there's an English translation.

Sometimes the first thing you see when you enter a city becomes one of your abiding memories of that place. Bar La Marina in Torrevieja is a building I've never been inside, but it's the first place we saw when we came up from the underground car park nearby.

It's such an odd little building to find in a city like Torrevieja - a bungalow in a jungle of apartment blocks. Gleaming white walls with a rustic terracotta roof. It, along with the building across the road with the beautiful, ornate arches, is one of the first things I think of when I think of that city.

La Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (or Sacred Heart of Jesus church) is a strikingly modern building in the centre of Torrevieja. I nver got to investigate the interior, because we were on a fleeting trip through the plaza in which it's situated, but the building itself is gorgeous.

I'm absolutely gutted to hear that Venice is submerged under water.

We went to Venice in June and the city instantly earned a place in my heart. I just hope that it isn't badly damaged and we'll get a chance to go back someday.