Got woken up this morning around 5AM by someone making noise in the dorm room but since it wasn’t far off the time I set on my alarm I got up. I had a shower and got my bag ready to meet down in the reception of the hotel ready for our three week Topdeck trip around Europe. We ate some breakfast then sat around waiting for everyone to arrive and get their names checked off. As soon as we were all there we grabbed our luggage and walked around the corner to where a bus was parked to take us to Dover and across the English Channel. During the hour long trip from London to Dover we were introduced to out tour leader, Jamie and he also introduced us to our driver, Billy and cook, ... read more

DAY 1: We had booked some cheap flights to Bergerac for 11 days where Hannah’s parents had a holiday house. Her dad drove us to John Lennon Airport in Liverpool and we took the three hour flight into probably the smallest airport in the world, Bergerac. It was just a shed in the middle of no-where. I got my passport stamped and we waited for a family friend who picked us up and dropped us at the house. For the rest of the afternoon Hannah showed me around the house which was an old converted barn opposite wine fields. In the evening we decided to go out and Hannah took me to a small town nearly called Eymet. We had a quick look around this tiny town and had dinner at one of Hannah’s favorite restaurants. ... read more

17/06/2008 - Liverpool: Today we jumped into the car and drove all the way to Liverpool, home of one of the biggest bands ever, ‘The Beatles’. It took us just over an hour to arrive and we found a car spot just outside the Albert Docks. We wondered around here for a while, going in and out of some of the free museums and art galleries around the Docks. The weather was quite miserable in Liverpool today but still we decided to take the open-top sightseeing bus around the city to get a better view of all the sights. Especially the three Heritage Listed Buildings which sit next to each other beside the Albert Docks. After driving around for a while we got off to get some lunch near Mathew Street where The Beatles played their ... read more

09/06/2008 - Leeds: After a few days resting and getting used to the massive time difference I had gotten accustomed to in Asia, Hannah and I decided to go into the nearby city of Leeds. We were dropped off at the station and went to buy tickets. I was stunned to find that they cost us almost £23 return to the closest city, what a rip off. After the shortest most expensive train ride of my life, we arrived in the centre of Leeds and began to wander around. Hannah knew her way around quite well and showed me around the city. We went into an Orange store and I decided to buy an English mobile phone as it was absurdly expensive to use my Australian one. After buying a snazzy new phone we continued walking ... read more

We decided to have sleep in this morning since it was our last day in Asia and our flight wasn’t due to leave until 12:30AM. We packed our gear, got ready and checked out of the hotel. Today we were heading to the history museum of Hong Kong to learn more about this amazing city. However we went to leave we realized it was absolutely pouring down outside so we grabbed a taxi to the museum to stay out of the rain. We tried to take as much time as we could around the different exhibits and displays but there were so many and so much information to read that eventually we started to speed things up. We were there for a few hours by which time seen almost everything and I had had enough of ... read more