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It probably isn't where you'll be going, but I've just been to Valencia, and they've got the most excellent modern museum of prehistory. Everything is beautifully explained (pictorially, I couldn't read the Spanish). They're mad on actually making things to find out how they were made, so there are modern axes with all the flakes carefully attached so you can see the process. Also pictures of how things like fish-hooks were actually used. So refreshing from the dusty prehistory galleries in this country.

Most fantastic of all were the Palaeolithic carvings of animals. Just amazing. With just a few lines the artists completely captured the movement and dignity of the animals. The ridiculous security guards got in a state when I started drawing them and eventually (me with no Spanish, them with no English) I got to speak to the curator, who said it was fine to draw them (naturally) but that you need a permit to photograph them. So much for the laid back Mediterranean culture: my eyes have been opened. (But all that's by the by). I strongly recommend the museum.

Valencia's actually my first stop. I'm going for the Las Fallas fireworks festival, which someone recommended to me as the wildest-assed fireworks festival in the world. I've recently started going to the bonfire night celebrations in Lewes, Sussex, which are pretty crazy, and I've a taste for more ;-)

So, among all the street paella, burning effigies and deafness, will try and check out the museum, thank!