We were up and packed by 11:00am check-out and even made it down in time for breakfast. We all dumped our things in the lobby and I headed out to see by the pool with the four American girls. We layed in the sun for ages before we decided to collect a few others and head down the road about 300m to a tavern which is actually owned by the people the own the hotel we were staying in. We had some lovely meals; I stuck to the chicken salad to keep it light but some of the pastas and fish dishes that others got looked amazing. After we headed back to the hotel for some more time in the sun, a play on the net and some chitchat before it was time to get out ... read more

Happy Birthday Me! We wanted to not get up too early but also made it down in time for breakfast. It was a great breakfast; Contiki breakfast does equal a buffet so it couldn't be missed. We had that then Got ready to lay by the pool and get some sun before we were to head off to our beach party at Paradise Beach. The bus left at 3:30pm and took us about 25 or so minutes to get there.When we arrived we found ourselves in what almost felt like it was out of a movie or something. Guys shirtless and bikini clad girls everywhere and everyone looked hot. We grabbed drinks and made our way to some tables already taken over by some other Contikians. We sat having a few drinks before Andrea and I ... read more

Today started early as I got a text at 6:40am from Sharnez to see if we were okay because we hadn't got to the hotel and she'd got our message on facebook. We dragged ourselves out of bed, showered, and had our included breakfast; it was amazing. There was cereals, bread, tea, coffee, croissants, fruit and yoghurt and sqeezed-in-front-of-you orange juice. Delish. Mary went up to finish packing up her things and getting ready and i ventured up to Syntagma Station to meet up with Sharnez. While I was waiting I was sitting on the side of a fountain outside parliament house in Syntagma Square. It was already quite hot, up in the 30's. I was entertaining myself watching the stray dog walking around; all of a sudden it jumped up on the side of the ... read more

After getting to bed at about 3:00am I couldn't sleep, probably from being over tired so was waking up on and off from about 6:45am and the sun was shining through the window, so that wasn't helping me either. And, because of that the room had warmed up enormously so was kind of waking up almost in sweats. Moving on. I had a quick shower and Mary attempted a run, I got ready and headed down to the lobby to use the internet and Mary met me there so we could head in for our included breakfast. Toast with strawberry jam, fruit and juice. Mary headed up to shower and get ready and I stayed in the lobby until I broke the internet on my phone. I headed up then Carl messaged to say that he ... read more

The day started early. After only drifting in and out of sleep between 1:00am and 5:00am it was time to get up, finish packing, have a shower, breakfast and head of to Melbourne Airport. We stopped off on the way in Prahran to pick up Mary and made it to the airport just after 7:20am. We took some quick photos with our luggage then made our way to check-in, go through customs and sit around waiting at our departure gate only to realise on our ticket that we were seated separtely even though we had checked-in together. Our flight was to depart Melbourne at 10:05am but we didn't end up leaving until about 10:50am. My goodness it's a long flight, even just to get us to Shanghai, China - our first stop. It was 10 or ... read more