Corfu, Verona and Venice

Corfu was beautiful, we had our first day with out rain on the tour!! bonus! as we were out on George's boat. George is a lovely greek man (although slightly un-PC, when i say slightly i mean the most un-PC person i have ever met!) he took us around the island and to swimming spots in the Mediteranian. THat night we went to a greek restaurant and was treated to traditional greek dancing and not so traditional greek food :)

We also had a free day to roam the island in Corfu, they gave us cars (bad idea) and we went to the beach. greek drivers are crazy!!!

we then had a day and a night on a mini cruise ship up the adriattic sea, which most of us spent sleeping off the effects of greece... and the bar!

Yesterday we visited verona and saw the Juliets balcony, and rubbed her boob (...statue) for good luck. verona is a great city, would love to get back there.

today we spent the day in venice, it was a long day which started with a glass making and lace demonstration in the morning, and then we went into St marks basilica at St marks square. we did a little shopping (now to fit it all in my pack!!!)

we got a touch lost, but the locals were very happy to help, including one very smooth waiter named Oscar. we then went on a gondola ride, our "driver" was a little insane, which made staying in the boat a little interesting.

photos to come... promise

Pompeii and Corfu!!

Pompeii was amazing, it was really interesting to see all the building uncovered, that were almst perfectly preserved when Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. there are even plaster moulds of people who were buried in the ash and when the bodies decayed they left void in the rock and people filled them with plaster cast, which created moulds of a man sitting down wainting for the enevidable, a pregnant women trying to protect her unborn child and also a dog who was not unchained when the mountain erupted so could not escape. his body is in a mangeled position where you can see him trying to break free from the chain. it was all very morbid but an interesting step back in time.

We then traveld t the ferry where we were on a night cruise to Corfu an island of the caost tof greece, i can literally see the greecian mainland from our balcony!!!

we had a look around the town today and will be doing a whole lot of nothing while we're here... cant wait!!!

C U

French Riviera, Nice, Monico, Florence and Rome... PHEW!

Ok since i last left you i have seen all of the above... done good, see you next time.


Nah kidding :)

The french Riviera or the French Riv as us "frequenters" call it (yeah right)... was great, was great weather saw why all the stars have a holiday home there. We went into Nice for a day put my toes in the Mediterranean sea... yes i had to look it up :P

We had a night trip into Monico, didn't get a stamp unfortunately, but went to the le Grand Casino and lost 10 euro... that was enough!

After that we made our way to Florence where we saw where Michelangelo, Machiavelli and Galileo was buried at Basilica di Santa Croce, was huge! had a walking tour done by Fabio!!! (of all names) :)

Today we did Rome, saw the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Roman Ruins. was a huge day and as i have come down with the contiki cough, and cold :( i ended up coming home and crashing.

off to Pompeii tomorrow then the night ferry to Corfu... hmmm night ferry... that will be interesting :)

C U

Paris

I have 2.43 minutes to fill you in on what i have been doing! damn internet cafes :)

Did paris yesterday...
Louve
Mona lisa
venus de milo
lots of other paintings which were very impressive, but possibly more so if i knew the meaing behind them!

Eiffel tower
cathedral notredam
arch de triomph

cant spell any of these... sorry

also sat in a french cafe and ate lunch watching the world go by. just like the french :)

there are no driving rules here its pretty much a free for all! makes crossing the street slightly hazrdous!

around the arche de triomph there is a crash every 15 minutes...

lots of scams here people asking for money, picking on tourists, dropping really cheap rngs and trying to sell it to you for 100 times what its worth, also pick pockets, Kym a girl i was with yesterday heard her zip open on her bag and turned around and some guy had is had in it!! quite scary, after that we wore our bags on the front.

we also navigated teh paris metro, quite fun once we realised we going in the right direction :)

went to a cabaret show last night, was good fun in the words of our tour manager... lots and lots of breasts.

well times up...