4 words: white water rafting, bobsledding! Today we enjoyed white water rafting on the Austrian Tyrol (class 1/2/3) rapids followed by bobsledding on the famous innisbrook Olympic track. Innisbrook is a beautiful place, the nicest yet! Small cafes, great pastry and gelato, and the home of schanpps! The bobsled ride was a fast 100km per hour spin down a 1200m track in 1 minute 5 seconds! An amazing experience! The various shots is schnapps on the other...

We arrive at Mt. Pilatus around 2pm after a long day of traveling. We had a small break at the base, and then proceeded up the steepest cog railway in the world (49 degrees). Travelling up several thousand feet of vertical, the air started getting thin, but it was a beautiful sunny warm day. We had gone from below sea level in Amsterdam to 7000 ft in 2 days, a hard change on the body. At the top of the mountain is a hotel, several restaurants, and some amazi...

Leaving Amsterdam we drove through the country side and on into Germany. About a six hour drive brought us to St. Goat, a quiet little town of no more than a few thousand people. Located on the Rhine river, commerce and trade would have been a main industry. Now wine making, beer stines, clocks, and tourism rule. We wondered the streets for a bit, and then took a cruise down the Rhine where the bus met us. We proceeded up the valley side to a town of on...

What to say about the Netherlands... We arrived late in the day for a quick dinner and headed into the red light district. Everything you've heard is true :-). Our tour leader took us on an insightful trip through the red light district, and straight to "Live Sex on Stage". Yes, it is what it sounds like, a theatre with a stage and people going at it. Afterwards we wondered about and hit up a few bars and explored the famous coffeeshops. The next day we hea...

Quick summary of London: Bon Jovi day 1, watch PBS soon and Im sure it will be televised. Day 2, I started with an open top double decker bus tour, this gave a quick (2 hour) tour of London. On a beautiful 34 degree sunny day it was a bit much. I stopped half way to see the tower of London. As I left the crown jewel show room I saw the line behind me was several hundred people. Tip for London on the weekend, be early! The tower was quite amazing and well ...