nickles2011

today we were traving to plitvice lakes were we would be spending 2 nights. On the way stopped In sater for a couple of hours were we saw some roman ruins the sea organ which we could hear (it was pretty cool) and st marys church. After that we had a wee bit of time to look around so I went for a wee wander through the streets and found a market and then came across a few of the group having a beer in a resturant on the sea side so I joined them before heading back to the coach to finish the journey to plitvice lakes. we got there and did the usual set up of camp, we had a yummy dinner of basil chicken pasta followed by a punch party which was entertaining. ... read more

today we were back on the coach headed for debrovnick, Croatia and travelling through montenegro. It was a beautiful drive most of the way, we got to debrovnick around 5ish and set up our tents for the first time in a wee while. After camp was set up and we had a bit of spare time we got taken on a walking tour by our tour guide david before being left to our own device for dinner. We then met up with everyone else later to head to the skybar for a couple of drinks.... read more

Today we spent the whole day in Munich. we started off with a later breakfast (9.30ish). we then went and hired a bike for the rest of the day. was fun and much easier way of getting around as we were all sick of walking. it was wierd not having to wear a helmet and nice to have a bike path seperate from the road. we went to a few places on our bikes including a palace with massive gardens as far as the eye could see, an olympic arena which luky for us was the first day of summer festival and it was nice summer hot weather. we kept biking around munich and saw some parks and older buildings, we got caught in some rain in the late avo so found some cover for a ... read more

today I got a full day in rome, so I started off by seeing the vatican city on a guided tour through topdeck which was good, it lasted till about 11.30. there was some amazing artwork and sights, after the vatican I went to the colossium and had a look around inside which was very cool. After that had a late lunch at a resturant nearby. I then headed back to the campsite to chill and enjoy the sunshine before dinner. For dinner we had an absolutly amazing lasagne, thanks to our on road cook, shannon :-)... read more

once again we were on the coach with florence being the next stop. I seem to be getting very good at sleeping on the bus in slightly uncomfortable positions. We stopped of at pisa on the way, got our pictures of the leaning tower had some lunch and explored some of the streets. It was back on the bus after that. Once we arrived in florence at our camping ground and got that set up Dave took us to a leather factory which was really interesting. After the leather factory we had a local guide organised for us, she took us around all the sights, she liked to talk about the bricks on the church dome. There was lots of statues around the main square in florence, including the david replica. We then had a steak ... read more