Quick update from yet ANOTHER destination... LOL

Heya all,

Just going to update quickly. IM IN SCOTLAND!! LOL :-D

Terribly excited...yet very tired at the same time. My Ireland tour was AWESOME...had a wicked time, gorgeous people, stunning places, interesting sites and fun times all round basically! Money and time well spent.

I won't go through everything we did...the itinerary is on thier website (i gave the link in a previous update) and that pretty much outlines it all. The tour leader, Kevin, and driver, David, where pretty cool and laid back Irish dudes who were definitely experienced. Kevin knew alot about all the places and told us stories along the way and gave us all the info we could possibly need.

So today i said my goodbyes to the tour that was continuing back to Dublin while i stayed in Belfast and caught my flight over to Edinburgh this afternoon...almost 3 hours of waiting around at the airport etc etc, just for a 20 minute flight! lol Pretty nacked now though...going to catch an early night because i have be up to leave on my Scotland tour in the morning. Yey!

After i get back on 3rd November, i think ill actually be heading back to the Museum in Dorset for a couple of weeks! Basically i have nothing else to do and im short on cash, so it works out well. Ty should be finished his trekking etc in Spain about mid November and im going to arrange us some WWOOFing in Italy!!! How awesome is that. If you don't know about WWOOFing, this is the link for the Italian website (though you can do it pretty much anywhere in the world)....

http://wwoof.it/

So yeah, that seems like the general plan for November. At the moment though im just going to try and enjoy my Scotland tour and hope that its as cool a group as the one i did Ireland with. Ill have some pics up ASAP (this computer won't recognise my phone grrr), ive got HEAPS of awesome photos, alot of cliffs.... hehe

Hope everyone is well anyway. I hear the weather is starting to really heat up back home...Hope everyone is coping OK....Its getting pretty bloody cold here now!

Take care all oxox

On to Irrrreland!!

Well here i am... in Dublin!

I arrived in the wee early hours this morning after a long nights bus and ferry journey (which im very much accustomed to these days anyway). The last days of my Europe tour were pretty cool, even though im still a bit run down with the ol' Coach Plague (a general chest infection peppered with random bouts of severe couching, very runny noses, drowsiness, as well as the odd temperature and all over muscle aching...not much fun).

We did an awesome bike riding tour of Berlin, which was heaps of fun and really informative as well. The last couple of days in Amsterdam were fairly chilled out, though on the last night we did some partying in the infamous 'red light district' which was a bit of an eye opener you could say hehe.

So after a llllong journey back to London on Monday, and an evening of long goodbyes and best wishes, we all went our seperate ways in the world for the first time in almost a month. It was a strange feeling sitting there in the bar of the hostel as people randomly decided it was time to depart. Over the month we all formed what you might call a 'group consciousness' where we were always looking out for each other and protecting each other, feeling that there was something amiss when someone wasn't there.

I'll definitely miss that part of the tour, yet i also will appreciate more the time that i have to myself to do what i want, when i want, without a deadline. So as ive said, i now find myself in Dublin for two whole days of freedom before i embark on another two tours...one of Ireland and one of Scotland. The following is to the 'Shamrocker Tour' of Ireland which leaves on 20th October, this coming Saturday morning...

http://www.shamrockeradventures.com/Tours/AllIrelandRocker.html

I don't even actually finish that tour which is supposed to arrive back in Dublin the following Saturday night, as im catching a flight out of Belfast Saturday afternoon to get into Edinburgh Saturday night so that i can start the tour of Scotland the very next Sunday morning! LOL I know its going to be tight, but the tour of Scotland im doing is the last one of the year with that company so i made it fit in. That tour goes from 28th October to 3rd Novmeber (Sunday to Sunday) and the link if anyones interested is...

http://www.macbackpackers.com/7daygrandscotland.html

It hasn't really sunk in yet that im in Ireland or that im taking off once again for new adventures very soon...and with a new bunch of people. I have to keep telling myself that, yet again, im in a new country and i have to appreciate the time that im here, because its unlikely that ill ever be back. So today or tomorrow ill do a walking tour of Dublin, and apart from that i have nothing else exciting planned...except for sleeping and maybe a spot of shopping for more winter woolies...its pretty fricken cold here as i expected!

After some dramas connecting my phone to a computer, ive finally managed to upload some new photos of Berlin and Amsterdam, just a few. Soon enough id like to upload more photos from the entire trip, mainly just to get them on the internet where theres no danger of losing them. I have about 1200 photos stored on my phone at the moment...all the way from back in Spain after a lost my other phone....eeeek.

Anyway, not sure when ill get to update next, probably leave it until after this tour or after the second one. No doubt there'll be more stories and more photos, yey!! hehe

Hope everyone's well, ciao for now! oxox

5 Days to go

Hi all,

Well, im almost there, just counting down the final days. Im in Prague at the moment, and tomorrow we are heading to Berlin for a couple of days, then on to Holland for the last two days to visit The 'Dam (otherwise known as Amsterdam...which should be interesting hehe).

Ive uploaded a few new photos, mainly of me doing stupid poses just to prove i was there hehe But ill have more up later obviously. We have visited alot more places since my last update in Florence, such as Venice, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and now Czech Republic. I really liked Venice, that was gorgeous, but very touristy. Debrovnik in Croatia was also amazing, i did a 7 hour island hopping boat cruise to the islands in the area and the water was sooo clear it was unbelieveable.

Ive also recently been struck down by the 'Coach Plague' which is tearing through the ranks at a swift pace. Walking tours are easy...just having to following the coughing, gagging, nosing blowing, sneezing, sick people LOL I was feeling it pretty bad in Budapest, spent the best part of the morning in bed which a temperature and aches and pains, then got out of bed and spend the afternoon in the incredible Turkish Baths they have in the centre of the city.

Im feeling ok now, my temperature has gone down and im just fighting a cough etc....yey for me hehe Anyway, i gotta go, going to run out of money on this internet and ive got no more coins!

Will probably update next in London when i get back. Hope everyone is well and enjoying (what i hear...thanks to Shan) is warming of weather in OZ.

Ciao for now! oxox