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Published: September 6th 2007
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I,m baaaaaackkk!! Have been back from our European adventure for just over 2 weeks now and have finally caught up on my month worth of missed sleep. Back to reality, work (just spent all my money), flat hunting (was homeless), and came crashing down on my return to Scotland, felt very homesick. I had an absolutely awesome time with a busload of delirious fun boys & girls - agggh the debauchery!! I have just decided to keep this update relatively short and save you all reading the boring details… if you would like more detail then please check out Kate’s blog, he he, always easier when someone else does the hard work.
Please note: most debaucherous details may be left out to avoid complete parental shock %!)(MISSING) Well our adventure and debauchery starts in London, a night at the hostel to meet and greet and sleep before out departure the following morning. 40 of us get on a bus bright and early with our awesome tour leader Candace (knew her stuff and knew how to party, from memory (and I have killed many memory/brain cells this trip), I believe I awoke around 5:30am. These early morning departures were something
to get used to, late nights, early mornings, I eventually got used to the lack of sleep. So… we head to Dover (white cliffs and all that) and jump aboard the ferry, the sun was shining and one wouldn’t think they needed sunscreen but I did go a little tinge of red. We arrive in Calais (France) and meet our Mr. Bus driver who goes by the name Foggy (foghorn) and our very debaucherous on road fun girl chef, L.J, and our very own party girl Tania! We meet, greet, load ourselves onto our Top deck Tour bus partly home for the next 24 days and Paris here we come!!
HAW HAW WEE WEE FRENCHY…. Paris beware. So with everyone tired from our day of travels and embarrassing moments shared upon the bus, we arrive late evening in Paris. We stay at a 3 star hotel that serves us the worst dinner of the whole entire trip (not that we knew this at the time), really had us wondering what we had to come…. Would I die of starvation throughout Europe….. NEVER!! We do a night tour after our very average din dins and check out a
f few of the main sights, climb lots of stairs at the Sacre Coeur, wonder around, also head into the most dangerous roundabout in the world o the theme ‘Dangerzone’, but the Fogster got us through unscathed, we even did 2 laps!! This roundabout is so dangerous that as soon as you enter it your insurance won’t cover you! Bus isle dancing begins, our trip song is chosen ‘World Hold On’, and we head back to the hotel for some drinkies and a good chance to chat to some of our fellow travelers… still at that who are you, whattya do stage.. It doesn’t last for long…. We learn to love one another very quickly. I did discover on this trip that you can really get to know someone living in each others pockets for a month, we were traveling with some really great people and have made some fun friends that I know we will stay in contact with ;-) We have even planned our next couple of trips….
So wake up early, head a little fuzzy, and it’s a free day in Paris to do what we want. I’d already been to Paris but did get to
discover some things I hadn’t been to before. We head to Napoleon’s tomb at the military museum, Notre Dame, the Louvre, Arc de Triumphe and back to the Eiffel tower to meet up with the gang, have a picnic, champagne and beat the ‘gappies’ at our very own Snail eating relay race. Now the ‘Gappies’ are a fellow Top Deck bus full of 18/19 year old students in their ‘Gap’ year at school, who are rich enough to tour around Europe getting trashed, arrested and there were also some hospital admissions, needless to say we were all happy we were on our bus… but it did bring us entertainment and made us laugh when they thought they had any chance at beating us in any competition, HA HA HA, I laugh my evil laugh! So after kicking butt in the snail eating comp (Kate shocked me and entered the race and had to eat a whole 8 snails) not bad for a girl who won’t eat onion… yes strange, I know… it was onto our Seine River cruise, oohing and arghing at the Eiffel tower when it sparkled in the dark, we then made our drunken way back to the
hotel for more drinks. I was feeling very exhausted, long day, and had walked everywhere, I sleep like a baby and dream of Swiss mountain goats… he he just kidding - Switzerland here we come!!
For exceptionally exciting detail on Swiss debauchery please head to the SWITZERLAND page %!)(MISSING)
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