Because of massive traffic delays, we missed out on visiting the Schnapps Museum and the Swarovski store the first day in Vienna. Because Vienna is still quite a religious city, most shops are closed on Sunday so we missed out on discounted crystal, but the museum is open so that was just pushed back a day. We arrived at the […]
The first stop for the coach was the Dachau concentration camp. It was a very somber experience, when you are there you can see how small the prisoners living areas were for the huge number of detainees. The videos and facts about the atrocities were shocking and distributing but I won’t go into them. If you want to learn more […]
We stopped out our last servo in Italy but we could already tell by the food sold that we weren’t in the heart of the country. The food was heavily influenced by Austrian cuisine such as strudels & schnitzels. I grabbed some lasagne and a plate of vegies + a frozen mocha coffee thing that is quite popular in Europe. […]
On the coach the Tour Manager put a movie on, Step Brothers, for the journey to Venice from Vatican City. As we had a break at a rest stop, I noticed everyone buying a lot of snacks. At home I don’t buy any junk-food like chips or chocolate, as once I start eating something I wont stop until its all […]
We arrive to Rome and depart the bus to do a short walk to a supplied dinner, my favourite, pizza. However after eating nothing but pizza & paninis, my body was not happy with my oil : vegetable ratio. So opting to be, for the first time in my life, healthy I only ate the bread and tomatoes. I did […]
I woke up excited for my bacon and egg breakfast. You can imagine my disappointment when the guys from my Contiki tour absolutely demolished the food before I could get any. Being a bad omen, I should have suspected there was worse to come in the hours ahead. We get on the coach and head over to the Vatican, the […]
I got up at eight, packed my bags, showered and headed to the lobby, a newly formed ritual when we depart a city. We hoped on the coach for a three hour drive until our first stop at an Italian break stop. Determined to get some sleep as we were going to the Electro Disco that night, I took one […]
Monaco is where the rich and famous go to party, the wealthy elite go to avoid tax and the Contikians go to try and be classy. I didn’t wear a tie this time thinking I was comparatively a little overdressed at the Moulin Rouge, just rocking out with my new slacks, black shoes and blue collared shirt. However, everyone brought […]
Colin had been throwing up the night before from coughing too much. He is the second person in the tour group to do so, and a handful others also have really bad coughs. So far my immunity has held strong and haven’t got any symptoms yet. The rampant infections combined with heavy drinking from the night before had turned most […]
[info_box] This post will be continually updated to include any fail moments that occur during the tour. [/info_box] We needed an alarm for 8am so Colin sets it on his phone. The alarm goes off so I force myself to wake up. I later check the time and it was 6am! He had left his alarm from the day before […]