Red Shoes

Day 8 Contiki Sooooo, having trouble remembering details, it w3ould apart I do have the brain of an 98 year old women (thanks Tez-dag-millionaire). We got into Florence around midday and headed to see the "outside" version of David, whilst we waited for our photographer to show up so we could get our group photo. Clearly, the photographer was in no rush and took her sweet time. During this time, I took some photos of these mime guys. Then they got the wrong idea and gestured for me to approach them. I turned around and was rude and quickly moved away. Creepy bastards. Then the photographer finally shows up and and takes 2 photos that take up about 5 minutes of our time - wow....glad we hung around for that one! Following this we decided that ... read more

Day 5 Contiki We once again got up nice and early and left Innsbruck (I hope that's how you spell it) to leave for Venice. Had a nice boat ride over to Venice where we jumped on some gondalas and went for a gondal around the "streets" of Venice. Was quite nice and relaxing. I love love love the old buildings. Downfall of the gondala ride was that our gondala man didn't speak to us the entire time and kept speaking to his fellow gandala men, which made it weird for us to talk, as we kept feeling as though we were interrupting their conversation. After we gondaled we went to a glass making store, where we firstly watched how they make the glasses and shaped nick nacks. It is insane how quick they do it ... read more

Contiki Day 3 So we left St Goar at very nasty hour to head for Munich. On the way we stopped to visit the Dachau (excuse poor spelling) concentration camp. Wow was that intense. It was bone chattering freezing when we went and we were rugged up. The poor Jews and criminals of the state that were housed there against their will must have been freezing....especially since half the time they either wore nothing or light cotton shirts and shorts. It was horrifying to read about and wwatch what those poor people indured during the Nazi rein. After we finished at the concentration camp, we continured our bus ride to Munich. Upon arrival we met with Sammi, our american walking tour guide. She was insanely funny. She showed us some old school churches, residencies, statues and ... read more

DAY 1 of Contiki Ok, firstly, apologies for the EXTREME delay in posting blogs. Europe SUCKS for free internet and also I haven't had much of a chance to update due to running around like a nutcase in freezing tempretures. As I forgot to bring my diary with my notes in it to the computer, I cannot recall it if was during this day or the next day, that we were able to do some nick nack shopping. Got some sweet gifts though, yay for gifts. We left the Royal National hotel at 7am. We took the ferry across to France - but didn't stop to admire it's glory (saving that for last we are!) We drove through to Belgium where we had a service stop and some food etc. It was freaking cold there also, ... read more

Just seeing how this thing works............Hmm how do I add photos.......I wonder.......The logical way would be to click the photo tab at the top, but it appears thats not what you do at all.....hmmm...oh wait.....I see what's going on here....it wouldn't let me add photo's until I disclosed where I was....big brother is watching me....... read more