Tour starts

Today was up bright and early to start our tour of Europe. It started with organized chaos as 4 Europe bus tours were starting at the same time at the same place! After getting on our bus, the bus driver couldn't get all the suitcases on the bus-and as we watched him kick pull thump and kick one suitcase off and on the bus several times,we realized it was Leannes case. It certainly kept everyone amused and finally after half an hour, and removing a single lady and her bag off the bus, he finally had all bags securely stored underneath the coach. We all clapped the driver when he finally could get all the luggage on board and closed the luggage door.

Of the 40 on our tour 3/4 are Aussies! Plus 4 kiwis and 3 canadians.
We finally headed off for the 2 hour trip to Dover to catch the ferry over the english channel. It is true what they say about the white cliffs of Dover ie they are white. The ferry took us across to Calais where our European arm of the tour commenced. We had our fist pee stop (the first one is free!) and then 30-50 cents to use the bathroom facilities across Europe. It was a five hour trip through Brussels and Belgium to Netherlands and stopping overnight at Amsterdam.
Amsterdam is well known for it's wooden clogs, windmills, tulips, raw salted fish, canals and it's tolerance to prostitution and marijuana. "space cakes "are purchased from coffeeshops, tomorrow we will be careful what we order with our latte.








Greg & Leanne



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Location:London to Europe