Barcelona - with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal

With average temperatures between 15 and 21 Celsius Barcelona is the ideal holiday destination year round. The winters are usually mild with temperatures not below 8 Celsius where as the summers can be quite hot with up to 29 Celsius.

When we visited Barcelona we literally stepped on two of the greatest tennis players of all time, but more on that later, let’s first see what makes Barcelona worth visiting.

Madeira and the (not yet) famous suicide dive gondola

Growing up in Switzerland, the land of chocolate, cheese and gondolas (129 to be exact) makes you think you’ve seen it all; but there is one gondola on the island of Madeira that leaves them all in the dust - the (not yet) famous suicide dive gondola, since it’s not only insanely steep but offers a heart stopping descent down to the ocean….but more on that later. Let’s first see why the island of Madeira is worth a visit.