When In Rome.....and a lot of other places

Ok...So where have we been? What have we been doing? i know the suspense has been killing anyone who has been following our blog (thats if anyone actually cares about what were doing). Well Last time we left you we had just been to Pisa on Contiki, So i shall re-cap on what happened from then till now!. Well we went to Florence (Florenzo) for two nights, Florence is a very beautiful city, though there seemed to be boundless amounts of graffiti on most of the buildings which took away from its beauty. Space Disco was a club we went to one night, pretty cool place, for instance the bar was a giant fish tank, enough said.

(Us before Space)

When in Rome, Thats right we then hit Roma! Besides the fact the second night we were their i had a serious ear infection and balled like a little baby everything was sweet apples. It was abotu 28 in Rome, Kris and i had a brilliant day exploring the city and seeing the major sites we went to Vatican City, Trevi Fountain and the spanish steps just to name a few. On the other hand John and i had an adventure trying to get out of the colosseum (that thing only has one exit and is very hard to find) so indo endo we ended up late for our bus and running around and out of the colosseum with many bystanders looking puzzled and somewhat scared at us. (might i add this is not the first time john and have been late for bus and had to run out of a major attraction, we also ran out of the monte carlo casino).

Contiki then took us to the watery streets of Venice, that campsite we stayed at was very cool and had 6 other contiki groups staying their so it was pretty much party central, the first night we were there was actually Kristie and I´s Two Year anniversary!!! John made a speech at dinner infront of everyone, thanks buddy. ah ha. Veince was a very odd city when you walked around, it was stunning but very different to anything i have seen before. A Gondola ride was in order and was lovely, we ate chips and drank wine whilst crusing the streets? Cannals?. Though i am pretty sure our driver was abusing us and contiki in italian for the entine 60minutes.

Then We headed to Australia, no no Austria, sorry. Contiki owned a nice big house in Austria in a tiny towned called Hofgarten, not much to report besides both going white water rafting, mountain biking, paragliding (yes paragliding), White and bright party (where Steve won a pole dancing competition), a crazy local pub and trout fishing. OK so i lied there actually was loads to report, but words can not describe the fun we had, austria is amazing and paragliding through the austrian alps is something that nothing on this trip will be able to top.

Munich = Beerhall =Yodeling = Beer = Yum For AL = Lame for kristie

Not much to be said about Munich besides the fact it kind of felt like home, had a very Melbounre Vibe to it.

Switzerland - Contiki Once again has a villiage in a stunning location. 11,000ft up from us in the Swiss Alps was Jungfraujoch mountain, it is a 2 hour train ride up (which i had to do four times due to my own stupidity, though thats another story for when im less embarassed about it) Views Views Views is all i can say, all were spectacular, ill let the photos do the talking.

Ok so back to germany to the Rhine Valley, stayed at grandma´s house, Learned all about Riesling and beer steins, though it was only a small stop over.

Holland - Amsterdam - This was are last stop on Contiki so it was a bit emotional for all. Though for Kris and i we were happy becuase it was the only hotel we got to stay in on contiki, so when we found our suite un cleaned and trashed we were a bit sad, but when made it worse was they stuck us in another room (which was an old office converted into a room) about a 10min walk from all of our group, then the hotel staff and i got into a bit of a scruff and such, grumpy.

Well as for the rest of Amsterdam you know what they say What happens in Amsterdam stays in Amsterdam (except for these few photos)

(our sexy faces)

Long blog eh?. Anyway. On the way back to london from holland, we got stuck in a Major traffic jam, like major major, there were no cars on the other side of the highway and we got told it would be abotu 5 hours before we could move, so we did the only reasonable thing, we cracked out some champange and played frisbee on the opposite side of the road. We made it home eventually after our bus then hit a taxi and we were forced to catch a taxi to the hotel, only to find that when we hopped in our taxi the bus pulled in behind us. GAH: LAME. One long day, not to mention we had to leave at 5am in the morning to catch a flight to Biaritz in fracne to then catch two trains and a bus to get to San Sebastion, Spain.

So now were In spain, away from Contiki, and my boys. San Sebastion was great, we stayed in a tiny hostel which was a house that had been converted, very fun and friendly, the downside was i think it was built in the middle ages becuase there were a butt load of stairs to climb to get to it. Anyway Im off for now.

Over and out

Miss you All.

Love Al and Kris