Day 14 - London to Amsterdam

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We got up early at 6:00am as we had to pack up our stuff and get ready before we headed down to the lobby to meet our new Contiki Group. As we flew in late to London we didn't get to our contiki meeting last night.
It is a big group, 51 people and mostly a bit older, not full of 18year olds which was nice.
We had a brief talking to by a contiki london contact before they took us in to weigh our bags, they had to be under 20kgs. They did this with 51 pople, some were over, most were fine. Next the checked our contact details then sent us out to our coach, our new home for the next 16days.
Our tour manager is lovely. Her name is Leona, she's been doing contiki for 7 yeats, she's 29 and shes from Melbourne. OUr drivers name is Derrick. He's a bit funny coz he's from Glasgow so some were finiding it hard to understand him.
We boarded the bus and we were on our way to Amsterdam. We were crossing 4 countries today; England, France, Belgium and Nederlands.
We drove for about 90mintes before arriving at the port in Dover to catch the ferriy across to Calais. We got our passports stamped and made our way on board and up to the top deck so we could get some good shots of the white cliffs of Dover as we took off. It didn't take too long to get to the other side, maybe about 90mins. We got back on the bus and drove from Calais via Belgium and into Nederlands, stopping somewhere along the way just for some lunch.
We arrived at hotel at about 6:00pm so we had time to check-in and shower etc before having our included dinner in the hotel.
After that, Leona TL had booked us in to a live sex show in the red light district. It was at a place called Casa Rosa. Considering it was the groups first night out together it was a bit awkward. A little while later the Space Cakes kicked in and all was good with the world. Between the couples on stage there was one of the girls who came out stuck a cigar in her who-ha and smoked it. Another stuck a banana in her who-ha and got 3 guys out of the crowd to eat it. All a lil full on for us but i guess it all comes with the culture so we can now say we've seen it?! Meh. Sorry if thats a little detailed for some.
Leona walked us past all the girls in the windows, some looked hot, others just trashy but i guess there really was something for everyone. Apparently the oldest of them is 84 years old.
After this we headed out to a club for drinks, and more drinks followed by McDonalds and a long cab ride back to the hotel. We hit the pillow and we were out.

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Comments

[Carl]

OH MY GOD!! I think I would have passed out seeing that kind of stuff!! haha OMG that's just wrong!! Although glad the Space Cakes helped to make it more tolerable! lol