Captains log 3/6/13. Free day in lovely Paris! We woke up around 8 and went down for French hotel breakfast. It was ok, ham cheese is a different breakfast item but were told that's a staple here. We all got on the coach and went into the city. First stop the arc de triumph , the giant arch Napoleon built to celebrate his victory at Waterloo. It's amazing it's a lot bigger then I expected, they also have the enteral flame there which is in the memories of any Fre...

Starting our 33 day contiki tour! Little excited, little nervous, we wake up early at 5am, to be packed and ready in the lobby by 630am. Naturally buses are delayed, and theres so much messing around, that we stand around before heading off closer to 8am. Settling ourself down in the mural meddle territory of the coach, we chat to some of the people around us, all lovely thus far! Our tour leader is Liz, and our driver is Levi, both very cool individuals. An hour...

Captains log 1/6/2013! Another day in lovely London. We started our day with the pack of not eating bacon and eggs so we headed towards the natural history museum, we found this lovely French cafe and settled in. We both had portage and honey and a croissant. It was lovely and finely some semi decent coffee. With our stomachs finally detoxed from English pub food we went into the museum! Once again we got there at the exact time to miss the 2-3 hour queue and wal...

Another adventurous day here in London Town. Started off with another round of English breakfasts (we are determined to only eat fruit and salad tomorrow) before heading off for a tour of Lords crickets ground...sadly though, we discovered NZ and England were actually having a game there, thus couldn't go. But wanting to make the most of the two tube transfers to get here, we leisurely strolled though regents park, which despite having far to many bird species, w...

So it was time to get our tourist on! We started the day with a walk from our hotel to Leicester square though china town! I found a casino in which I plan to loose money at a later date! We had breakfast at a small corner shop, 2 English breakfasts, it was ok. We then picked up our London passes and headed off to the Tower of London. That was amazing and truly a fortress. The Crown Jewels are breathe taking, after looking at a 502.3 caret diamond scepter I said...