After breakfast this morning, we were off up the Jungfrau Mountain in the Swiss Alps. We walked about 15 minutes into a small town which we didn't even realise existed, just above the campground. We thought we were just in the middle of nowhere. It was still very warm this morning but I had all my gears in a bag to take up - jacket, scarf, gloves and hat - because it was too hot to wear them at the bottom. Because I had all of this with me, I was really hopin...

We woke up in Munich this morning to thunderstorms, but it was still so hot! I opened up the curtains in our several story high hostel room, only to see 'ugly naked guy' (from Friends) steering back at me. I gave him a wave and he waved back. It cracked me up. This guy was just standing in his window with no clothes on! It has been a very short trip to Germany, but we come back through to the Rhine Valley on the way to Amsterdam. We had to load our bags up i...

We left Austria this morning for a quick trip to the Swarovski Crystal Museum. We had about an hour here to have a look through. The museum was incredibly weird and random. It was like a little maze to go through, with lots of little rooms, and most things were made of crystal, but then there was just some really random stuff that didn't seem to make any sense. After the crystal museum, it was another 2 hours to the Dachau Concentration Camp. This was the fir...

I woke up this morning, excited for my paraglide, and looked outside to see that it was pouring with rain! So I wasn't impressed. First of all though, we headed off on our 25km bike ride, in the rain. I was much happier to do it in the rain though than the 36 degree heat that they too had been having. Only about half of our tour group chose to do the ride, while the rest stayed back at camp. The first 10kms were uphill. We biked the first 5kms and then sto...

We departed Venice this morning with Austria in sight. 3 hours to the service station for lunch, an hour to white water rafting, and then off to the Contiki stopover in Hopfgarten, Austria. I slept for most the first part, and felt like crap when I woke up. I was so dopey and my eyes were all blurry. I was so tired. When I woke up, I wasn't sure if we were in Italy still or Austria as the landscape had changed so much since I had fallen asleep. It was super ...