I'm back in England now after having a wonderful holiday in Europe on a Contiki tour. It was a great bunch of people and a mix of nationalities, which was nice. I loved trying out my basic French and Italian and also getting back into my German! We weren't in Germany very long I'm afraid, but I have lots of plans to go back. I also ate lots of really yummy foods - some included the snails (see below!), frog legs, lots of gelato in lots of different flavours, pasta, pizza, chocolate eclairs, pastries, wurst and pretzels!
Overall, it was a fantastic whirl-wind of a trip and I am now exhausted and a bit sick!
These are a handful of the many pictures I took...
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| Snails... very garlic-y and buttery. |
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| La Tour and me |
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| Paris - Arc de Triomphe |
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| Near the Louve |
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| Notre Dame |
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| French countryside |
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| Beautiful Avignon |
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| Avignon square |
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| Nice |
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| The water is nice! |
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| Monaco |
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| Casino Monte-Carlo in Monaco |
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| Fawn (from Canada) and myself |
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| I hope it all doesn't fall off in the heat! My gelato, I mean. The classic chocolate and lemon combo. |
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| Lovely Florence. |
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| Most of our group (minus a few stragglers) |
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| The Vatican... |
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| So many different moments in time... in Rome |
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| It's colossal! |
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| In front of the Pantheon - one of my favourite parts of Rome |
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| On a Gondola ride in Venice |
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| We went on a bike tour of Munich! |
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| A small pretzel and some nice cheese dip at the beer-garten, mid-way through our bike tour. |
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| It was heaps of fun in the Hofbrauhaus - traditional music and dancing, delicious wurst! |
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| Am Rhein |
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| I love the little German towns on the Rhein. We stayed in this one - St. Goar. |
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| The Netherlands! Edam, famous for cheese. |
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| Another bike tour in Edam! I got the wind machine out for this shot... |
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| Our guide in his clogs! |
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| Amsterdam, obviously. |
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| We went on a tiring paddle boat ride up the canals, which was good when we knew where we were going! |
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| Kiwi Amy (fellow-Deutsch speaker) and myself |
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| Lovely Karyn (from Canada) and myself |
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| Our last night of the tour, in Amsterdam. |
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| Welcome back to England and Dover! |
I hope you are all well and I wish you were here too! Now to get down to the business of finding a job...
Kim xo
Looks like you are having a blast! Congrats on your registration, and all the best with finding an awesome job :) xox ps it's Ayesh hehehe
ReplyDeleteThe photos are awesome Kim! So beautiful (you and the scenery)! I wish I was there too. I particularly love the photos of France- it looks like such nice weather compared to what we experienced. Also, how did the man ride the bike in the clogs? I didn't realise people actually still wore them! xoxo
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