Hi all, I’m in Galway, Ireland at the moment. I’ve had a free day today, so decided to head in around lunch to check out the town with a couple from Australia.
From the 29th July, headed out to a pub called the Sheep’s Heid Inn for dinner. Yes it’s called ‘Heid’. Dinner was nice, [...]

Hey all, I promise to update this ASAP, but I’ve let the diary back at the hotel and thought I’d just put a brief entry up anyway.
So I’ll let you know what I’ve been up to the last couple of days…
I started another Contiki tour as you probably know. I booked triple share [...]

We checked out the cheese and clogs factory. Both were interesting apart from the part where they use the cows stomach’s acids in the cheese. I didn’t try the cheese.
Into Edam, where we went bike riding. The bikes were really weird here, quite light-weight and took a little bit to get used to compared [...]

I got very sick here and couldn’t make it on the mountain bike ride. Bascially I couldn’t breath, my asthma was playing up and I ended up resting most of the day.
9th July -> We headed for one of the smallest countries and had lunch here before heading to Lucerne. Here we checked out [...]

The first stop this morning, was one of the saddest and gut wrenching things on the tour. We headed to Mauthausen. For those that don’t know, it’s a concentration camp where they worked people to death in a quarry carrying heavy stones up thousands of steps.
The thing about it is though, is that the [...]

Vienna was another beautiful place! We got in just in time for dinner and the optional tonight. Our tour manager, Amanda gave us a bit of a pre-tour before tea and we had a type of buffet for dinner. You grab a plate of food, as much as you want on the plate and go [...]

Venice! Gondolas! Venice!!! We started off by going to a lace factory and then to a glass blowing one. Not much to say here, I wasn’t really interested. We were let on our merry ways after the tour and Fraser, Harp and myself went off to check things out - shopping!!!
After more pizza and [...]