My World Travels

Firstly sorry i havent written when your on contiki you sont get much time to get to the internet... so here is about 2 weeks worth..

Got to Italy and met Meg at the airport so good to see her.. this was at about 12am so then we had to find our hostel in the middle of the night and not knowing where it is or where to go was very interesting. Got to our hostel about 2am after walking around Rome for 1 1/2 hrs. next day we walking around Rome in the light till we checked into our hotel for the start of our tour.
Night 1: met the group and had a group dinner. at first we thought that it was all older people and werent sure about how much fun we were giong to have. Then after a few drinks a hand full of us went out to a place called the drunken ship there was lots of drinks and bar top dancing, great ice braker... such a great night was going to be hard to beat it in the next few weeks. That ngiht one of the guys ended up in hospital and the Aussies made a name for themselfs....hehe... aussies are Meg and I and 3 sisters from S.A and a few other random ones, but were ended up being known as the loud ones most of the trip. When we got back to hotel meg and i passed out on the bed without getting changed or getting in bed.. 6am wake up call the next day wasnt so good. but you get use to it cause thats what its like all trip.
Day 2: Off to Sorrento with the people that went out a massive hangover included and james with a black eye and stichers in his lip. 2 people vomitted on the bus which didnt the trip any better. we stopped at pompeii to visit the ancient city. had a tour around it and saw what happened when the volcano exploded. then kept going to sorrento to view the bays of naples. Bit of a quite night.

day 3: Boat ride to the Island of Capri, very beatifull place. up market holiday destination for all the movie stars. some of us took a chair ride up the top of the hill and saw a 360 view of the island. the water is so clear blue i cant explain it. then another boat ride to see the Blue Grotto,s which are sparkling magical sea caves. Today is the day we found out out of us 5 girls none of us are good with numbers. and this showed all trip. We then got a boat back to sorrento and stocked up with beer wine a bucket called contiki bucket and a ball call wilson (cast away) everyone was looking at the aussies funny because of the ball and bucket but we had some good ideas... we had a beach party that night and the bucket was used as an eski and the ball for fun and game. Ill let you all no these two things stayed with us all trip. Who ever was last on the bus had to carry the bucket around that whole day and wilson well he just came everywhere and got kicked around alot. This beach party night was a big one.

Day 4: The big bus ride to Florance. We stopped along the way at Lazio for a en-route to taste some local wine, beacuse we hadnt had enough...haha... that night we had a group dinner then went out for some Karioki. All the aussies got up and sang Men at work, land down under. our drinks were litre drinks of daquris very nice. another big night

Day 5: Started with a hangover and a walking tour of piazza della signoria, the duomo and santa croce, most of us missed the leather shop due to sleeping in. We also went to the uffizi gallery and the Galleria Deli Accademia which is were the statue of David is. That night had the best dinner in tascany very posh place and then headed out to a night clue which was awesome to bring out our aussie dancing... This is the biggest highlight so everyone keep an eye out if you have fox TV. I was the only one chosen to be on International TV talking about Florance and the night life. Yeah i had no clue what i was talking about so i made it up. Emma our tour giud calls me Miss Hollywood now and is so proud think ill be mentioned in some of contiki info around the world. so yes another massive night.

Day 6: Off to La Spezia, we went to The leaning tower of Pisa and got some free time to walk around.The off to Riomaggiore which is a town where all the houses are painted different colours so the sailers could tell which house was theirs when coming home. Then we did the walk of love along side the beach with was beautifull. Quite night with pizza and bit of italian TV.

Day 7: Fashion City Milan.... day of shopping but for few of us we just walked around. Milan is like a crazy city people on the go all the time. That night few of us went out, me alex the boys and few others. We were ment to go to cheaps part of town but taxi driver took us to Hollywood place. not happy. So the boys brought us drinks all night...

Day 8: We were off to Venice on the way stopped at Verona home to shakespeare romeo and juliet. They had markets on and a band walking around all the time. Went on the famous balcony too.
got to Venice late so low key night.

Day 9: boat ride to venice and went to see glass blowing then to a lace craft show. went to St Marks square. Then we had a gondola ride which was awesome. we walked around the markets and enjoyed the day. That night was dinner with unlimited wine... which with our group not a great idea..haha.. so yes another big messy night. then boat ride back to hotel and some more partying.

Day 10: Travelling back to Rome but stopped in Bologna home of spag bog walked around there then back on the bus. This was the biggest day of driving. That night went out for dinner and the rain came down. It was the biggest rain storm i have ever seen. and we had to run tho it. So much water the streets were flooded only buses could get tho it.

Day 11: Took train to Collocium home of the Gladiators also walked around underground rome back in the 400BC time. The went to Vatican city and Sistine Chapel. walked all of italy this day. then went to St peters church the biggest church in Italy. then the spanish stairs, then the fountain di Trevi , campo de fioi and the pantheon. after we were all stuffed we went home showered changed and went out for our farewell dinner the last time we,ll all be together. great night was always going to be a big on. 4 of us finished 7 bottles of wine then we headed out... first stop the Ice clue. everything is made from ice. so cold. couldnt stay to long even tho you get given gloves and a massive big jacket. then after that went to a bar with music was pretty good.... night got late and who knows what happened next!!! hehe...

Day 12: last breaky... everyone headed to were they had to go, some air port others different places. Very sad to leave everyone, most of us are now pretty close after spending so much time together. Meg and i are staying in Rome another 2 nights with the other 3 girls. we,ll go see different things together the next few days then mag and i head to Austria and the girls to Amsterdam.

Hope i have filled you in enought, sorry mandy i didnt keep up....hehe
love you all and big hugs to everyone. be good take care....mwah