Day 10: South of France to Italy

30/07/11

Another early one again today..
We had ham and cheese croissants for breakfast today - yum! Felt really sick today though! Slept most of the time on the coach, and we watched Independence day.

We had to put in designs for our team's t-shirt today, I designed mine with a girl called Caitlin, its the Best!!

We stopped of at the leaning tower of Pisa and I took pictures kissing and licking it! There was a competition but they didn't say who won! We shall see tomorrow!

We got to the campsite at 6pm, I was really impressed! The cabins are newly built and the food was sooo nice! We had lasagne and tiramisu icecream for dessert!

Everyone went to a bar but I'm ill so I'm resting tonight, getting ready for a big night tomorrow! :)
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Day 9: Nice/Monaco

29/07/2011

It was sooooo HOT today! :)
Breakfast was decent, had a cheese omlette..
Then we went to NICE!
It was really upclass - I would love to move to the south of France!
we went to a perfumery which was nice, and then spent the rest of the day on the beach!!

We paid 14€ for a private beach which was well worth it to have our own loungers and space! It was beautiful weather! I sunbathed for 3-4 hours :)
Think I stayed in it too long though, felt sick the rest of the day!

That evening we went to Monaco! This place was really upclass! We saw the hairpin bend of the F1 track, expensive shops and went into the Grand casino - a bit dissapointing as we paid 10€ entry and it was a boring casino basically made for the rich people of Monaco. I put 5€ into a slot machine which was lost very quickly!

We ended up in Mcdonalds - 4€ for a happy meal :)

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Day 8: Barcelona to French Riviera, South of France

28/07/2011

This was another very long drive!
Only had like 2 hours sleep so wasn't in the best of moods! Didn't have breakfast but ate Bacon n Eggs at our first stop :)

We stopped off at a town called Arles where we saw a Roman building (can't remember the name!

We arrived at the campsite, and Contiki recruit 'cookies' and 'dishies' for meal times.. Unfortunately I was a dishie, so I had to clear up plates n wipe tables. The cabin we stayed in was pretty small with bunk beds and 4 people shared a bathroom.

We tried frogs legs which tasted like fishy chicken, not too bad but the though of it made me feel sick!

Tonight we just played some pool, hung around the bar and went bed! I caught up on stuff like doin my nails! Pretty nice relaxing evening.
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Day 7: BARCELONA!

27/07/2011

Today was a HUGE day! Toured around Barcelona in the day time.

We walked up and down Las Ramblas a few times, saw the Spanish Arc de Triomphe, castles, Christopher Columbus tower, a food market (which had moving crabs n lobsters! Yuk!), the Port and the BEACH!!
The beach was soooo nice! The weather was amazing - finally hit the hot weather! :)

Then 5:45pm, back on the coach for FLAMENCO!! It was so fun! The dancing was amazing! I don't know how they move their feet like that! There was a really talented guitarist as well. They brought us on stage to dance and there was sooooo much SANGRIA!!

We got really drunk so had a coach party on the way to a restaurant! It was so fun jumping n dancin around the coach! I'm bruised now though!

We went to a MEXICAN restaurant which was nice and drank some more sangria!

Then it was bar time! We went to Port Olympica, about 5 clubs next to each other. I danced a little but mainly sat at the front of the club with people drinking n smoking sheesha..

Twas a good day!!
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Day 6: Beaujolais Wine Region to Barcelona!

26/07/2011

Today is a DRIVING DAY! Left at 7:45am and got to the hostel at about 7pm!!

There were a few stops though, 2 service stations and one stop at Pont Du Gard - a roman aqueduct, the views were amazingly beautiful.

The accomodation was quite nice, bunk beds and the bathroom was in the room! :)

We just hung around the hotel, did some washing and caught up on sleep (still went bed late tho!)
: D

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Day 5: CHATEAU free day at Beaujolais wine region

25/07/2011

This was our only free day on the tour and it was NEEDED! It was raining all day so unfortunately we couldn't go in the pool, and we were meant to go on a picnic but it was an HOUR walk in the rain!! So we just stayed in with our picnic basket and hung about the chateau.

We watched a film in our room on someone's laptop, went on the net and just RELAXED!! After the last night I planned on not going out on this night, but ended up goin! The theme was HoBos and Hot Hoes! I was a hot gangsta hoe lol. Didn't have a big night though.. Too much alcohol in my system!!!

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Day 4: Paris to Beaujolais wine region

24/07/2011

Today was a driving day.
Woke up for breakfast and left the Etap hotel at around 9am.
At one of our stops we went to a Patisserie and bought Macaroons :)

We arrived at our Chateau at about 5pm and had wine tasting at 6pm, which we didn't have to spit out! Didn't even want it after all the wine that was drunk the night before!
The chateau was beautiful, big white building with a pool out front. Unisex showers however!!

Dinner was ok and we got dessert! After dinner it was PYJAMA PARTY time!! I was still feeling rough so intended on not drinking much but ended up drinking a lot!! The party was fun - in the basement of the chateau or cave as they call it! Drinks were cheap n the music was decent!
Was a good night!!!

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