About 5 hours after us 3 going to bed last night, Rebecca, our last roommate came crashing into the room with the help of some other girls trying to get her into bed. She got up on the bunk eventually and finally went to sleep fully clothed. So I enjoyed opening up the shutters and windows on her this morning to about 25 degrees and bright sunlight! :) Despite this though, we had an awesome sleep. Today was basically just a lazy day around the Chateau. It's b...

We've been staying out in the country for the last 2 days so haven't had any wifi to update the blog until now, but here goes. We rose early again today to head south to the Beaujolais Region of France. I think we drove about 5 hours today in total with a couple of stops. Our first stop was at one of Napoleon's castles which he lived in after the French Revolution. An amazing huge historical building. We couldn't go inside but we took some photos from outside...

So we got a wee bit of a sleep in this morning, before heading down for breakfast at 8:30am. It's just me and Stacey sharing a room this time. We were mixed up with people to begin with but we managed to swap for the 2 of us to be together. The bus left the hotel at 9am and dropped us at the Arc de Triomphe (the giant roundabout with 12 streets). Driving around this, and in Paris in general, is absolutely insane! There are literally no rules - it's just a fre...

We were up at 5:15 this morning! Less than 5 hours sleep... It gets light in London at crazy hours. At 5:15 it was broad daylight, which at least made it easier to get up, but Stacey reckons it was getting light at 3am this morning when she woke up. We had to head down to the courtyard at 6am and check into Contiki, plus get our bags weighed. We're only allowed 20kgs in our suitcase and if it's over they make you take it out. So I was a bit worried as it was 22...