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100 THINGS!! 100 things to accomplish on our trip

68. stay in a real english home

UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 21 Oct 2010 | Views [220]

oh my goodness, spur of the moment, michelle and i had two days off from work at the mill, and we didnt like our room mate so we went to guildford to escape. we didnt want to go back so we found the information office and found a cheap b&b, bought ... Read more >


Photos: Oktoberfest

GERMANY | Thursday, 14 Oct 2010 | Photo Gallery


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56. read pride and prejudice by jane austin

UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 2 Oct 2010 | Views [177]

wouldn't have been able to read the book had i not seen the movie. it was quite odd, after reading it i found the way i spoke was different, slightly more old school lol, and i was reading it when we went to munich so i had it on the bus, wasnt sure if ... Read more >


9. drink beer at oktoberfest

GERMANY | Thursday, 30 Sep 2010 | Views [379]

And drink beer we did. On September 28th we headed to London to meet up with Contiki who would be taking us to Munich in Germany. I thought it was a 4 hr bus ride. It was 18 hrs! We arrived on Wednesday morning, the 29th. We had 3 days at the festival, ... Read more >


61. see the glokenspiel in munich

GERMANY | Thursday, 30 Sep 2010 | Views [428]

hahahah, we stood infront of the damn thing for ages waiting for it to go off befoire finally realising that it was hours before that it goes (not every hour as we originally thought) michelle or me (cant remember who was holding that camera) managed ... Read more >


57. try real german pretzels

GERMANY | Wednesday, 29 Sep 2010 | Views [1097]

salty salty goodness. in just about every photo taken in germany i'm seen eating. most of the time its a salty pretzel. with butter. salty salty goodness lol. and they're so big. not like the little pretzels you buy in a bad at home. german pretzels are ... Read more >


76. find duff beer

UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 20 Sep 2010 | Views [232]

I was stupid enough not to have bought a bottle the last time I saw it in Italy, which would have had to have been around Rome. I enlisted Stevey Steve's help to see if he could find one on the rest of his travels through europe with no luck. In the ... Read more >


5. invent a new meal

UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 18 Sep 2010 | Views [162]

oh my goodness, we're so cleaver its called chocolate soup ingredients chocolate milk marshmellows chocolate raisons chocolate buttons any other chocolatey product you fancy cooking directions place all ingredients in microwave safe bowl and ... Read more >


85. join a gym

UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 16 Sep 2010 | Views [161]

and join the gym we did. the gym group 24hr in Guildford, the only trouble is that we could only get there with Daniela and Micheal (people we worked with) and they didnt go all that often so nor did we :( but it was good when we did you.


53. taste real english sausage and mash

UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 10 Sep 2010 | Views [180]

the mill at elstead serves the yummiest sausage and mash on earth. thanks to roger, the columbian chef that we live and worked with, or richard, the manager, or robert the funny polish head chef or valdik, the apprentice chef, any one of them could have ... Read more >


Photos: Contiki Trip London to Athens

UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 9 Sep 2010 | Photo Gallery

22 day camper
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95. sleep under the stars

GREECE | Monday, 9 Aug 2010 | Views [414]

athens campsite. athens was very hot and the tent was a mess so rather than move all the stuff out of the way i dragged the blow up mattress outside and slept "under the stars" instead, and what do you know, another thing has been ticked off ... Read more >


31. toga party in Greece

GREECE | Saturday, 7 Aug 2010 | Views [2242]

7th August 2010, whilst travelling with contiki we experienced our toga party!


42. go skinny dipping

GREECE | Friday, 6 Aug 2010 | Views [486]

6th August 2010 Corfu Island!


75. visit the pompeii ruins

ITALY | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [266]

more like pompoo, and that is how it shall forever be known. all the same it is quite amazing that there are still remains of a city from 75 AD, and that the people were melted into rock... melted? burnt? burnt solid into rock.


29. go inside the colosseum

ITALY | Monday, 2 Aug 2010 | Views [817]

welll... we decided not to do the tour offered by contiki and ended up arranging our own through thhe many english tours offered outside the colosseum. we saved money and were told that we would skip the queue. i guess we did skip the queue but we had ... Read more >


30. see the roman forum

ITALY | Sunday, 1 Aug 2010 | Views [267]

soo, apparently i have seen the roman forum, only at the time i didnt realise that i was looking at the roman forum. i will check it out properly "when in rome" again with mum next year.


28. take cheesy photos at the leaning tower

ITALY | Friday, 30 Jul 2010 | Views [978]

30th July 2010 We took the cheesy photos at the leaning tower, we only wish now that we had of been a bit more original in the cheesy photos!


33. eat pizza in italy

ITALY | Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 | Views [257]

disappointed. not as good as i had hoped but maybe we just went to a dodgy restaurant. margarita pizza we had. and a spag bol which was also a disappointment. :( have definitely had better pizza thats for sure


62. see juliets balcony in verona

FRANCE | Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 | Views [403]

we saw the balcony. the walls leading of the surrounding building leading to the balcony were covered in peoples names and hearts, and mushy stuff, there was quite a crowd underneith and in the area so we left without knowing that juliets statue was ... Read more >


21. visit a casino in monaco

MONACO | Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 | Views [430]

sooo we were too stingy to go in to the monte carlo casino as it cost 10 euro but we saw it from the outside and we did go into a casino right near it, in monaco. free to get in to but insanly expensive once inside. to buy one cocktail it would set ... Read more >


51. buy french perfume

FRANCE | Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 | Views [262]

we visited frangonard parfumeur before heading into nice. michelle, the perfume addict :) bought 2 different perfumes. :)


23. go clubbing in barcelona

SPAIN | Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Views [819]

well, we may as well have been at home. the music was exactly the same, the men were the same, only they were spanish which has to be an up. there was smoking inside though, that was weird weird weird. something i'd never seen before so every time i saw ... Read more >


43. swim in barcelonas beautiful beach

SPAIN | Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Views [348]

25th July 2010 The beach itself is beautiful! It has sand, which is always a plus when in europe. There were big fat rocks in the water but once out deep enough it was amazing! The water was sooo warm that we stayed in for a good hour enjoying every ... Read more >


46. have your portrait drawn

SPAIN | Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Views [317]

25th July 2010. On an afternoon in Barcalona we were wandering down the La Rambla where many street artists had them selves set up for the day. We made a choice and sat down with a smile plastered on our face for an excruciatingly long time before the ... Read more >


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