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Well we have finally left England and made it to Paris, our first stop of Contiki!!
Our tour around Europe started on the 15th of July, for 32 days ending on the 15th of August back in London where we started.
Sarah, Eamon and I have all managed to get on the same Contiki 32 camping tour, and after meeting everyone on our tour; it is pretty much made up of Gap students, uni students and a few couples, we headed off!! Travelling to Paris on the first day was a long day!! Good though becasue everyone was pratty excited and chatting the whole way, we made it to our campsite in Paris around tea time set us our tents and had our first meal cooked by our 'super cook' Chris....and I ATE SNAILS!!!! ah they were different!! the garlic butter definately helped them go down and diguised the wierd slimmey texture!!
We are in 2 person tents for the 32 days, so Sarah and I are sticking it out together!! Not that we really slept in our tents alot in Paris....at 4am it seemed like a good idea to sleep outside..under the stars...in the cold..until we woke up in the morning!!Had a wee tour around Paris after tea on the first night....wow i cant believe im really here!! And this is just the start!! The Effel Tower and everything is amazing...especially at night!!! We had about 3 days here in Paris so have had a chance to see so much!! Went up the Eiffel tower at night and the views are amazing!!! During the day its awsome but at night it is so beautiful! Went into Notre Dame and down into the chambers underneath it, visited the Lourve and or corse saw the Mona Lisa....its alot bigger than I was expecting since everyone said it was so small and there were so so many people there!!it took like 15 minutes to get to the front to actually see it!! And of course we drove around the ring road several times!!!
So...our first stop on contiki and what have a learn't.......
- aparently pick-poceting does happen!!! our first full day out together 'sight seeing' and we decided to use the underground, 2 girls including Sarah got their wallets taken out of their bags by 3 little girls while we were standing on the underground travelling!! wow that was pretty intense!! we all were so shocked, all we could do was laughabout it and we all trekked to te police station!! The man looked a bit worried when about 9 girls all walked in!!!
- 3 nights so far...3 nights of drinkng...another 29 to go!!!! our group on our tour is amazing!! already i have meet and made some amazing friends!!!
- Everynight is a Saturday night, and every morning is a sunday morning!!
- Chris..our super cook is pretty much amazing and definaltey a super cook!!!
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