Day 1 Today we spent half a day on the bus heading from Germany into the Netherlands where we stopped at a cheese farm and saw cheese and clog making demonstrations. We also managed to play a game of cricket (I think the Americans are getting more aussie culture than european with all us aussies). After finally arriving in the Amsterdam we had a couple of hours of free time to get dinner and have a wonder. This city is very multi cultural with a wide range of r...

Day 1 Today we travel onto the beautiful Tyrol region of Austria also location of the sound of music. Here we got the opitunity to go white water rafting in 6 degree waters of the Alps. After arriving in St. Johann we dropped our luggage at our hotel and had a delicious meal down the road at Bunnys Pub. Afterwards we walked back down the road into Austria's largest beerfest of the year. We enjoyed local beer, bands that were singing the wrong words to english so...

We arrived in Venice in the afternoon, where we met up with another top deck tour. Everyone took the chance to get some much needed washing done as we were all getting desperate for clean clothes. After pizza and wine for dinner we joined the other tour in a toga party. It was shuch a fun night everyone was dressed in sheets but I must say we looked the part. Some people had too much fun and needed an abulance after passing out. Poor Scotty had to spend the nig...

This morning we head for Tirana, the capital of Albainia. This country has only just been opened up to tourism. As we drive through the windy and dangerous roads of gravel there are parts where we can only drive at 7km/hr. As we drive past the locals, they stare at our bus as if they've never seen one before. There are blown up houses and a lot of construction where the locals are building there city. It's like no where I have been. There are 700,000 bunkers in A...

Florence si one of the most chilled out and relaxing cities to visit. Our accomadation was lovelly located in the Tuscan hills. We stayed in a large camping resort, with restaurants, a shop, bar (Wallabies vrs The All Blacks was on the big screen), disco tek and even a pool not that we got to swim in it cause it was closed every time we wanted to go in it. We got to taste our first Italian food and wine in the resort restaurant as a group meal, and our first gell...