the long and winding road
wow its been awhile since i did one of these
well if u hadnt already known ive left canada and am currently in London yet i am only going to be here for another week or so as i have run out of all my money and i need to go home... BUT IM GOING HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! i didnt realise just how much i missed it until i knu i was coming home and im just sooo excited!
well i went around england for abit and it was fun but i spent most of my time camping through western europe... well except like spain and greece... i couldnt afford to do those...
i was also planning on going to croatia, hungary and czech republic but these are all for 2008 and maybe with someone this time... i loved doing all my travels on my own.. but i would like to do it with someone next time
So i went to Paris and saw the sites but seriously found the french people pompous and rude... (especially when i encountered them in the holy city the vatican) but i did have sooo much fun there
found out also that my brothers ex and best friend is on my my tour and freaked out as we didnt know that either was going to be there funny small little world this one of ours
went to the french riveria and lyon and we did wine tasting and swimming in Nice ... oh Nice was so nice... well the beach was... i wish i went to cannes as well that day i was just so tired
went thru itally saw the leaning tower went to rome went to venice (oh i luvd venice favourite stop ever!) and florence was very cool also. including a stupid stunt by 3 boys who werre drunk and needed to pee so badly that they thought theyd go in an empty doorfront of a store... stupidly it was on a main street and it wasnt only not a store.. it was the police station front doors!!!!!!! so as they were peeing they realised a bunch of men were about to come running out to get them... luckily only one guy was caught and while being south african he has a britsh pasport so they let him off with just cleaning it up and thats all... but if he had his SA passport im sure he would have been busted sooo harshly!!! but that was a very big drunken night on everyones behalf.
Rome was sooo very hot it was pretty cool just seeing the really ancient building surronded by the new...and sooo crazy that u can can did up ur backyard and have soooo much ancient ruins lying wait for u
venice was soooo cool i bought a lot of presents for myself and i just luvd the place entirely and u can see how the islands are sinking into the see... i mean these old italian builders have done some amazing things but still... they are quite shotty in some respect (ie leaning tower or pisa and venice in general)
then to Austraia not australia as they say.. we went trhu vienna and it was ok i guess there was an aussie pub there that had an aussie pie (to which i was craving soooo bad) yet it was like 9euro which is like AU$18... so not happening my friend!!! the service was sooo bad and the aussie chicks behind the bar were sooo rude! many ppl went around to see whateva there was to see in vienna and ppl like myself paula and this South African liezel fell asleep in a beautiful park in front of a beautiful church... it was luvly
we went to salzberg that have hills alive with the sound of music.. and saw a few of the little places were the sound of music was filmed. then to the swiis alps.. lauderbraun beautiful area sooo pretty and also we were upgraded to a cabin so we werent cold or rained on
in fact the whole 3 weeks i wasnt rained on once in tents... it was like we were bringing the good weather with us becuz everywhere we went it was good yet afterwards and before not always the case.. except in rome it was sooooo hot and a little too hot me thinks
i went up the mountains and its always snowing up there... only unfortunelly we couldnt take the goodweather up the mountain as there was a really bad blizard and we werent able to go outside for skiing or sleighing with dogs or even taboganing... so mad!!! no snow angels!!!
but there was a reinactment of some rescue and the ice men were all make uped to look like they had been burnt and torn by the ice... still some of the talent on them was fine!!!!!!
i got myself a swiss army watch and i luv it!! the worrying thing was i lost my other watch after i bought the neew one in another shop and didnt realise til the next day where i left it. luckily we were able to track it down only i was thinking i wouldnt be able to get it back til i got to london again... only the very next day the store asked around tours and found one coming to our campsite and gave it to them to give it to us... and so i had it back within a day... i was sooo happy... so now i wear two watches... aussie time and it was european time now its UK time then it was be Thai time soon to be Aussie time as well... i look prettty stupid wearing two watches but somehow i think i look extremely cool!!!
then to germany and munich where they have the oktober fest!! it was cool we went to a beer hall and i had like 4litres of beer!! i dont even drink beer!!! but it showed as soon as i got back to camp i was down for the count
after a bit more traveling here there we finally rested in amsterdam... city of haze and an infamous redlight district!
well let me tell u we had some high times there... lets just leave it at that! dont look at my eyes
then back to london all in all 3 weeks... it was great we were happy... only very annoied as 2 girls were questioned and werent allowed reentry into uk for stupid reasons that they thought they were going to work illegally. unfortunetly we were held back and couldnt get onto our coach we were to leave them behind and theyd get back the next day... luckily they got on another coach and we were on the same boat going across... damn imigration!!!
anyway so im back here and london this time with more friends i can hang out with... i did a tour of london and i also met a nice old iranian man who pretty much offered me to become one of his hareem.... yes i was kinda freaked by it yet hey... when in rome.... hahah that became one of our lines... when in france, when in paris, when in florence when in germany, when in holland, but never while we were in rome itself... that just wouldnt be right! hahah
we had a great time and there was one girl who im sad not to be seeing agian .. for awhile anyway... she was very cool and we clicked right away shes half poly as well and we had sooo much in common... including our names... shes paula im sipola... yet everyone called us both paula so when one was called wed both look... and not only that we were tentmates so we were around each other most of the time... and we were the old nannas of the tour... ppl would come to us for hugs and information on stuff they didnt know yet we werent heavy drinkers and we almost always the first to bed... if i went to bed early she felt better about going to bed early and teh same vice versa... sometimes everyone was all a bit too full on and too drunk and i was too sober to want to deal... also the amoutn of tent swaping was annoying...
sex and alcohol thats wat contiki means!
well if u hadnt already known ive left canada and am currently in London yet i am only going to be here for another week or so as i have run out of all my money and i need to go home... BUT IM GOING HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! i didnt realise just how much i missed it until i knu i was coming home and im just sooo excited!
well i went around england for abit and it was fun but i spent most of my time camping through western europe... well except like spain and greece... i couldnt afford to do those...
i was also planning on going to croatia, hungary and czech republic but these are all for 2008 and maybe with someone this time... i loved doing all my travels on my own.. but i would like to do it with someone next time
So i went to Paris and saw the sites but seriously found the french people pompous and rude... (especially when i encountered them in the holy city the vatican) but i did have sooo much fun there
found out also that my brothers ex and best friend is on my my tour and freaked out as we didnt know that either was going to be there funny small little world this one of ours
went to the french riveria and lyon and we did wine tasting and swimming in Nice ... oh Nice was so nice... well the beach was... i wish i went to cannes as well that day i was just so tired
went thru itally saw the leaning tower went to rome went to venice (oh i luvd venice favourite stop ever!) and florence was very cool also. including a stupid stunt by 3 boys who werre drunk and needed to pee so badly that they thought theyd go in an empty doorfront of a store... stupidly it was on a main street and it wasnt only not a store.. it was the police station front doors!!!!!!! so as they were peeing they realised a bunch of men were about to come running out to get them... luckily only one guy was caught and while being south african he has a britsh pasport so they let him off with just cleaning it up and thats all... but if he had his SA passport im sure he would have been busted sooo harshly!!! but that was a very big drunken night on everyones behalf.
Rome was sooo very hot it was pretty cool just seeing the really ancient building surronded by the new...and sooo crazy that u can can did up ur backyard and have soooo much ancient ruins lying wait for u
venice was soooo cool i bought a lot of presents for myself and i just luvd the place entirely and u can see how the islands are sinking into the see... i mean these old italian builders have done some amazing things but still... they are quite shotty in some respect (ie leaning tower or pisa and venice in general)
then to Austraia not australia as they say.. we went trhu vienna and it was ok i guess there was an aussie pub there that had an aussie pie (to which i was craving soooo bad) yet it was like 9euro which is like AU$18... so not happening my friend!!! the service was sooo bad and the aussie chicks behind the bar were sooo rude! many ppl went around to see whateva there was to see in vienna and ppl like myself paula and this South African liezel fell asleep in a beautiful park in front of a beautiful church... it was luvly
we went to salzberg that have hills alive with the sound of music.. and saw a few of the little places were the sound of music was filmed. then to the swiis alps.. lauderbraun beautiful area sooo pretty and also we were upgraded to a cabin so we werent cold or rained on
in fact the whole 3 weeks i wasnt rained on once in tents... it was like we were bringing the good weather with us becuz everywhere we went it was good yet afterwards and before not always the case.. except in rome it was sooooo hot and a little too hot me thinks
i went up the mountains and its always snowing up there... only unfortunelly we couldnt take the goodweather up the mountain as there was a really bad blizard and we werent able to go outside for skiing or sleighing with dogs or even taboganing... so mad!!! no snow angels!!!
but there was a reinactment of some rescue and the ice men were all make uped to look like they had been burnt and torn by the ice... still some of the talent on them was fine!!!!!!
i got myself a swiss army watch and i luv it!! the worrying thing was i lost my other watch after i bought the neew one in another shop and didnt realise til the next day where i left it. luckily we were able to track it down only i was thinking i wouldnt be able to get it back til i got to london again... only the very next day the store asked around tours and found one coming to our campsite and gave it to them to give it to us... and so i had it back within a day... i was sooo happy... so now i wear two watches... aussie time and it was european time now its UK time then it was be Thai time soon to be Aussie time as well... i look prettty stupid wearing two watches but somehow i think i look extremely cool!!!
then to germany and munich where they have the oktober fest!! it was cool we went to a beer hall and i had like 4litres of beer!! i dont even drink beer!!! but it showed as soon as i got back to camp i was down for the count
after a bit more traveling here there we finally rested in amsterdam... city of haze and an infamous redlight district!
well let me tell u we had some high times there... lets just leave it at that! dont look at my eyes
then back to london all in all 3 weeks... it was great we were happy... only very annoied as 2 girls were questioned and werent allowed reentry into uk for stupid reasons that they thought they were going to work illegally. unfortunetly we were held back and couldnt get onto our coach we were to leave them behind and theyd get back the next day... luckily they got on another coach and we were on the same boat going across... damn imigration!!!
anyway so im back here and london this time with more friends i can hang out with... i did a tour of london and i also met a nice old iranian man who pretty much offered me to become one of his hareem.... yes i was kinda freaked by it yet hey... when in rome.... hahah that became one of our lines... when in france, when in paris, when in florence when in germany, when in holland, but never while we were in rome itself... that just wouldnt be right! hahah
we had a great time and there was one girl who im sad not to be seeing agian .. for awhile anyway... she was very cool and we clicked right away shes half poly as well and we had sooo much in common... including our names... shes paula im sipola... yet everyone called us both paula so when one was called wed both look... and not only that we were tentmates so we were around each other most of the time... and we were the old nannas of the tour... ppl would come to us for hugs and information on stuff they didnt know yet we werent heavy drinkers and we almost always the first to bed... if i went to bed early she felt better about going to bed early and teh same vice versa... sometimes everyone was all a bit too full on and too drunk and i was too sober to want to deal... also the amoutn of tent swaping was annoying...
sex and alcohol thats wat contiki means!