Just got back from a 29 day Contiki tour around Europe, definitely one of the best experiences of my life. There were 41 of us 18/19 year olds as well as our bus driver Tom and our awesome tour manager Ben. We started our tour in Paris, then worked our way down to the french riviera, over into italy staying in both rome and florence, we then caught a ferry to corfu where we spent three days before heading to venice, we then drove to vienna, then to prague, over to munich, we had a night in austrian tyrol and a night in the Rhine valley at grandma's house before heading to switzerland, then we finished our tour with two nights in Amsterdam, or amsterdamage as Ben like to call it, before heading back to London. Bit of a hectic schedule, but we managed to fit in lots of sightseeing, eating and drinking and a little bit of sleep as well. Here are some of the 1,300 photos I took, kind of hard to narrow it down but I did manage to include some with me in them!!!!!! haha
miss you all lots and lots
xxxx
Under the Eiffel Tower
me, ash, elyse, steph, danni, katie, nat, lizzie and mum hehe
up the Eiffel Tower at night
the tower at night
Arch de Triomphe - the french flag underneath was put up for bastille day
Beaujolais Wine Region - picnic lunch at 'the top of the world'
the boys were trying to play cricket with an apple and a baguette
view as we were walking up to our picnic spot
the chateau - where we stayed in the Beaujolais Wine Region, such a beautiful place and the weather was perfect for being lazy around the pool
leaning tower of pisa
Florence - the ponte vecchio bridge
view of florence from up the santa maria del fiore
the colosseum in Rome
cheesy photo - throwing my coin into the trevi fountain
Pompeii
Sunrise in corfu
View from our hotel room in corfu - bit of a mission to walk up the hill but worth it for the view, plus we had the biggest balcony :)
one of our swimming spots from our day trip on Georges Boat
Venice - me and Abby (one of the other kiwi's, there were only 7 of us or suvun as the auzzies like to say) on the ponte de rialto
canals of Venice
Schnapps museus in Vienna - free samples
will, horto and chipper after the schnapps museum haha
Prague
more Prague
bike tour around Munich
Ben our tour manager also known as benny, bean, benjamin, bengina or malasian magic
on our way to the beer hall dinner
Beautiful scenery driving though switzerland
flower bridge in Lucerne, where we stopped off for lunch
another quick photo op in switzerland
mountains surrounding our cabins in Switzerland, the one in the background had snow :)
Phoebe, me, kara and nat after walking up behind the waterfall
Canals in amsterdam
canal cruise in amsterdam - ben put on our day song 'Lets dance to Joy Division' by The Wombats, hence the crouching, it was kind of our version of fist pumping hehe
btw best song ever!!
