Briefly before arriving in the heart of Munich, we made a stop in at a former concentration camp; Darshau. We were given an hour to explore the camp & take in what life was like for these people, reading through the museums and visiting the gas chambers & crematorium. Very heavy information to digest on a holiday but we were shortly off & on our way to Munich. It is unbelievable! It must just be Germany in general. On par with Berlin as our favourite...

We briefly left Germany for the time being to hop over to the Czech Republic to visit the much-anticipated city of Prague. Many held high expectations for Prague & didn't start too well, with many getting scammed in the conversion of currency from Euros to Czech Koruna. Only moments getting over this we decided to sit down & eat dinner, where we were again taken on a tourist-ride with our bill, getting charged 6euro for a 250ml bottle of water (twice what...

So off with Amsterdam & onwards for a long, gruelling bus trip to our next leg of the contiki tour; Berlin. And it was well worth the drive, Berlin has been our favourite city so far on the trip. So much history behind the city and I've never seen a place so clean. First night in Berlin was agreed by all on our tour to be our 'quiet night'. A few laid back jugs of beer with the boys at the hostel bar, next thing it was 8am and everyone was a mess, piecing bac...

That concluded the London leg of the journey and it was a 6am start to meet up for our European Whirl contiki tour. A meet and greet and a couple of icebreaker activities to get to know the crew and we were off, en route to our first stop; Amsterdam! Not much more needs to be said about Amsterdam. Its a city that resembles the Tour de France, tons of people on drugs riding bicycles. Our first night out involved a browse of the most beautiful 'windows' in the worl...

Monday 15th July saw Louis, Joe & myself shoot off to experience our first taste of a European summer, with Jack & Doug to meet us within the first few days. After brief stopovers in Hong Kong & Zurich we arrived at our first stop of the journey; ye ol' London town. Two words: Loved it. After a lazy night to shrug off the jet lag the rest of the days were busy, so much packed into 5 short days. 2pound all-day bike hire and unlimited access to the wor...