We Flew to Milan from Heathrow @ 7.50am so early start to the day for us. Took us a forty minute train ride from Airport to Central Milan, after checking in at hotel we spent the rest of the day discovering Milan and what it had to offer, was more a business atmosphere than touristy. Milan is renowned as one of the world capitals of design and fashion. We visited Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in the Piazza Duomo (reputed to be the world's oldest shopping mall)...

Today was an early start to the day for our day trip to Stonehenge and Bath, we had to leave home at 7.00am to be at our meeting place outside McDonalds at 8.30am, with careful planning the four of us managed to make it with extra time to find where exactly McDonalds was at Baker Street!!! I spotted the coach and that made it a lot easier. Finally we were on the highway once we made two more stops to collect passengers for our trip!! When we left London it wa...

15th August U2 @ Wembley Stadium Tonight we went to see U2 in concert playing at Wembley Stadium which was only a 15 minute tube ride!! After buying our U2 t-shirts and programme we made our way to our seats which were not too bad as had thought we had a good view of everything the crowd and stage. Was awesome that the stage was 360°c, so were able to see Bono, The Edge, Adam and Larry come on to stage and also exit the stage which the standing crowd could n...

Liverpool was a great break away, had a fabulous time even though only away for one night!! We were lucky enough to be asked by our landlord if we would like to stay in her apartment whilst she was away. So I, Hamish, Kelly and Paul took a two hour train ride to Liverpool. The weather was gorgeous all weekend so worked out pretty well for us. We did 'The Mystery Bus Tour' around Liverpool following famous landmarks of the Beetles songs 'penny lane', 'strawber...

Sorry it has been so long since the last blog. We had a quiet time after the Contiki and since we have been being some more site-seeing around London and surrounding areas. The following is a quick few words of where we've been and what we've seen. One Sunday Lisa went to Kensington Palace, west of London with Kelly and Jess. Did a self guided tour throughout Kensington Palace of where Princess Diana lived. After this you could do a walk through the gardens su...