Day 12 : End of Contiki Tour


 
Amsterdam
St Goar

Our next day in Europe was very relaxed.  We woke early and after breakfast we got on the bus to travel back to London.  It was quite a long day of sitting in the bus.  We left at about 8:00 and at about 12:30 we got onto the ferry at Calais.

Munich
Venice
The trip on the ferry was not pleasant because it was windy and the water was “onstuimig”.  By 14:00 we were back on the bus for the last bit of traveling before reaching London at about 16:30.  The rest of the afternoon we used to visit an internet café to download photos and send e-mails to our family.  We also went to buy some food.
Rome and Vatican City

Florence
Later that evening we met some of the other people who were on our Contiki tour for a drink at the London Pub near our hotel. It was difficult to say good buy to these wonderful people who shared an amazing vacation with us.
Lucerne

Paris
Group photo in Florence
But we still had a few more days left in London and first on the agenda was a day at the Wimbledon Tennis Championship.

Read more of the trip to Europe in 2008:
15.               Day 7: Rome Italy
16.               Day 7: Rome Italy Cont
17.               Day 8: Florence Italy
18.               Day 9: Mount Stanserhorn Switzerland
19.               Day 9: Lucerne Switzerland
20.               Day 10: Paris France
21.               Day 11: Paris France
22.       Day 11: Notre Dame Paris France

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