Take four adventurous minds and a rental car for a week in southern France, Andorra and Catalunya. What you get? Bright sunshine, great wine, hot nightlife and outstanding architecture. Past, present and the future, its all there, in the heart of south-west Europe.

Main square in Toulouse


Road behaviour in France is sometimes quite aggressive...


Climbing up the Pyrenees, France behind...


Andorra la Viella, tax-free shopping paradise


Some Finnish tourists on La Rambla, Barcelona


Cathedral in central Barcelona


Columbus points the way


Parc Güell, ceramic bench design by Antoní Gaudi


Cathedral Sagrada Familia, another Gaudi design under construction


Random casa in Barcelona


Bicycle racing is popular in Spain


Local nationalists are active around northern Spain


Great castle holding the gate to Barcelona's Olympic park


Ruins of a roman era Colossuem in Tarragona


An old church in the old town there


Roman era gate to the sea...


...where the beaches are, though the mediterranean water is occasionally trashy