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Published: August 28th 2010
We headed off from London and caught the Eurostar to Paris. Once we arrived in Paris we got a bit of a rude shock that nothing was in English and found it hard to try to figure out the metro. After going the wrong way twice but on the right line we finally made it to the Contiki campsite. We had 2 nights in Paris and ate snails, went up the Eiffel Tower (which we lined up for 3hrs, but was worth it in the end), went and saw a cabaret show (where Tim was pulled on stage twice to do a juggling act and a dance off) and then Vic proceeded to get very drunk and vomit all over herself. We loved Paris and the weather was very warm. We checked out all the tourist hotspots like the Louvre, Arc de Triumph, Notre Dam, Champs Elysses etc.
Then we headed off to Amsterdam where we saw a live sex show (which wasn't too bad actually, wasn't all sex and had a bit of variety), strolled around the red light district, did a canal cruise, and of course had space cakes. Would have liked to have been a fly on
our wall that night, where 4 of us in the room just giggled all night and pretty much kept having 4 completely different conversations. We also went to Edam to a cheese and clog making factory and rode granny bikes around the countryside which was nice.
Then we headed to Funky Berlin which was very cool and we loved. We went to this really cool club which was an old department store building that got condemned but them squatters fought to not have it torn down and it is now a crazy massive place with graffiti upon graffiti, markets, bars and an outdoor sandy area. We did a walking tour with a very enthusiastic American tour guide which was interesting and saw Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall etc. We then did a pub crawl where we had to follow clues like they would have done in West and East Germany when the wall was built. We had a relatively quite night and smoked some sheesha in a pub (Which was cool for novelty but got over it very quickly).
Next stop was Prague via Dresden. Prague was very pretty and we did a bicycle tour which was
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Arc de Triomphcool and a river cruise. Last night in Prague we did a big pub crawl which got pretty messy with lots of table top dancing.
Last stop was Vienna. In Vienna we went to a Mozart and Strauss concert, went to a schnapps museum and went to the middle of nowhere for dinner at crazy peoples house which felt more like a 5yos birthday party or Hens night. Seriously we had to sing if youre happy and you know it. And we had a fake wedding and Vic had to drink Schnapps from between Tims legs. The food was delicious though and the soup was the best weve tasted. We also had snitzel and apple strudel. The Viennese are seriously crazy loose cannons though! But in a good way.
Our Contiki group is great and we get along with everyone well. We have a relatively small group of 30 mostly from Australia, but 2 from South Africa, one American and 2 kiwis.
Also sorry about the punctuation but Europe keyboards suck!
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Jarratt horton
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Jealous!
Awesome stuff guys! Keep the details coming :)