WOW Ireland. It was Claires choice to come here but boy I'm sure glad she did! It is beautiful. Im still amazed that after all the traveling i've done, the scenery i've seen and architecture i've gawked at, i can still be amazed by a new country. The countries across europe are so completly different from each other. All separte worlds of history. Ive so far experienced Dublin city and Galway. Dublin is wonderful! The Irish people so friendly and helpful, quiet a contrast to the Spanish. We took some timeout the first day to catch Harry Potter at the [View Full Entry]

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Leaving Corfu.... NOOOOO!!! i didnt want to leave corfu! i always said, to me a holiday aint a holiday without the beach! im lucky that we got to experience such such a wonderful place. The ferry to Venice was so boring! there was no casino, no games room, no english tv/movie channels!!! we occupied ourselves by playing cards and someone made up 'categories'. It was an early night for all which left us all feeling really good for the arrival in Venice (i was scared to go back to Italy...ewe!). Venice was gorgeous, built of all little islands, no cars alllowed [View Full Entry]

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ROME Ok let me start my Rome entry again, because at the farm we stayed at in Rome the internet was timed and i lost all my work :-( Italy was hot, humid and really dirty. I didnt rate the food, especially disapointed with the pizza, because they only put like 4 toppings on (ham,cheese,mushrooms and tomato) boring!!! We got an Imperial tour guide which took us to the colosseum, thru the ruins of rome, along to the pantheon (a church) and to the Trivie Fountain. The colosseum was different to how i thought it would be. It was falling [View Full Entry]

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Fierenze or Florence We arrived in Florance Sunday arvo. The drive was spectacular to Italy, along the mediteranean coast and the villages all nestled into the cliffs and the pebbled beaches. Gorgeous. We stopped off at a french perfumery first which was really good! (yes Jabe i did spend a lil!!) First stop in Italy was Florence. We did a night drive around the city, had dinner (the lasange was adverage, much better in Oz :-) ) and Janelle (tour manager) took us out into a oub called the RED GARTER. Sounds like a strip joint but it was just a [View Full Entry]

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Contiki Begins Monday First and foremost the internet isnt as accessable as I thought it would be and Contiki gives u no free time at all!!!! The Royal National Hotel was a nice change from the hostel! Two to a room and our own bathroom!! My luggage was only 18kg for the tour so i was laughing! Wheels rolled at 7am and we were on our way to France on Monday. I,m going to say right now, that this keyboard is really different to our normal ones, so spelling and somethings will prob be werid. We drove to Dover to board [View Full Entry]

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oops shopping!! friday was washing day. had to be done and i aint gonna write anymore about it excpet dont put everythin in one load. i had a few white, now grey, casualties! naughty kylie bought a uk magazine for all of us girls to have a squizzy at...but that made us realise that some of the big department stores are really cheap! so we had a look in the afternoon. two places worthy of a mention are PRIMARK and TOP SHOP. both have huge stores and huge register lines to match! i bought a few cute undies, only for [View Full Entry]

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Madam Tusauds We used the same ticket that we used the day before for the hop on hop off bus tour to take us to madam tusauds. the museum was a lot different to what i was expecting, i assumed that it would be different levels (everything i london is mulit-storey) of wax models but it was really fun. there were wax figures of the stars, my fav were arnie, nick cage and justin timberlake...of course i've got pictures of all these stars for u all to see! i just need to learn how to upload these pics!! the musem [View Full Entry]

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!!!LONDON!!!! It is true noone can prepare themselves sufficently for that horrible flight! Qantas are brilliant. they fed me up so much on the flight to singapore i was ready to sleep like a baby! i held out, played mini golf n a few other games on my tv (Jabe u would of loved it!!), couldnt be focused on watching any movies and listened to a lot of music. they have recent cds on the flight so it was awesom, caught up on al the new tunes! we didnt see singapore airport much. the loos were shocking! and we only had [View Full Entry]

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Well Hello All! This is the site i will be publishing my expereinces and adventures on when i go away! im just getting orgainsed now so i can keep in contact with all of u while im away. if u know anyone else who would be interested in reading my travels or misses me while im away :-D then pass on my web address (top of the page, mum and ross!) ONLY 6 WEEKS=40 DAYS to GO! [View Full Entry]

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