Contiki Review – 6 years after The decision to go Contiki The choice to take a tour was made for me, in reality. I was 19 and living around London with my parents. I hadn’t moved out of home yet. And when you haven’t moved out of home yet, even if you’re legally […]
Month: February 2011
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 12
Day 12 – Saturday 2nd July, 2005 Paris, France – London, UK After a way too early wake up call (probably wasn’t any earlier than the rest of the tour, but less sleep equals early feeling really early), we all packed up very quickly and loaded our stuff onto the bus for the last […]
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 11
Day 11 – Friday 1st July, 2005 Paris So, after what still felt like another early wake up call, although it was probably only 7am (instead of the usual 6) we headed downstairs to the semi-free-for-all that was breakfast. At this point there was at least one other Contiki group staying in the hotel, […]
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 10
Day 10 – Thursday 30th June, 2005 Lucerne – Paris, France Once again I think we had an early wake-up, around 6am. I don’t remember a lot of this day, we just did a rather large amount of driving, and it was one of those days where most people just caught up on sleep, […]
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 9
Day 9 – Wednesday 29th June, 2005 Florence – Lucerne, Switzerland I woke up that morning still not remembering at all how Kate had gotten in the night before. As usual, I had a quick shower while she woke up, and when she was awake enough, I asked her how she’d gotten in. She […]
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 8
Day 8 – Tuesday 28th June, 2005 Rome – Florence Usual wake up call of around 6 am, brekkie, then drove to Florence, back up the same roads we’d taken to get to Rome. I think we got there around 2 or 3pm, so the drive wasn’t too bad I guess. Most people were […]
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 7
Day 7 – Monday 27th June, 2005 Rome We got up early, and had a replacement bus today, as it was Reuben’s day off (by law), and thankfully the bus was waiting out the front of the hotel when we had finished breakfast. From some stories Amanda had told, sometimes they didn’t always turn […]
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 6
Day 6 – Sunday 26th June, 2005 Venice – Rome So today we all got up and drove to Rome. It was one of those days on the bus that just starts to blur into each other one. I guess we would have had one rest stop on the way, but in Italy pretty […]
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 5
Day 5 – Saturday 25th June, 2005 Itta – Venice, Italy We drove for all of the morning and some of the afternoon, and made it to near Venice at around 3pm, where we caught our pre-arranged motorboat over to the city of Venice. We broke up into small groups of the friends we’d made […]
Contiki – European Discovery 2005 – Day 4
Day 4 – Friday 24th June, 2005 Munich – Itta, Austrian Tyrol, Austria We left after what would become the best breakfast on the tour (actually had cooked food and fruit!) and drove to the drop-off point for the white water rafting. Those going on the white water rafting trip had time to get […]