Trip of a life time

Today I thought I would tell you a little about the adventure that I am currently on. My friends Marnie,Kate, Kezza,Jules and I left Australia on the 20th January 2006 and flew out from Perth International and arrived in Japan for 1 week. The Japanese are beautiful people, the whole country was covered in snow. We then ventured over to Frankfurt german where we stayed in the Airport for a couple of hours on route to our next stop...the fantastic Ireland, a week of hire car travel (mad drivers) and stopping at Dublin, Kilk-ennheee (party town), then Cork, Dingle bay and fab little place called Camp!

We then left Ireland for our next stop London!!! Now London was interesting, lots to see , lots to do but my goodness its expensive and the old £ is not so friendly to the $AUD. We were due to stay in London for 2 weeks but kate walked past this sign in a travel agent advertising trips to spain (cheap) so we booked at set off to Benidorm, Espanole for a fully inclussive hotel accom, alcohol and food holiday for 2 weeks...boy did we drink. We really had an amazing time in Spain... anyone ever met Sticky vicky ? hmmmm

After this we arrived back in London for a couple more days and to farwell Julie who had to get back to oZ for work. We then gathered our very heavy back packs (mine is called Fat Albert) then set off on our TopDecK Tour. We stayed at the Wake Up Lodge in London ready to Meet our tour Guide michelle, fantastic chick ! we boarded the bus for Calais and experienced one of the worst bus trips of my life to get to the ferry...the driver mas a maniac.

The next 19 days we visited, France (Paris), Italy (Rome,Florrence and Venice), Switzerland(Interlarken and Jangfrau),Czech Republic (Prague), Germany (Munich, Heidelburg), Austria(Salzburg),Netherlands (Amsterdam) and Belgium (Brugge).. an amzing experience and one i will never forget, made some great friends that will be in contact with forever.

We all then arrived back in london and slept for about a week before heading up to Birmingham England to find work, I got a job in Manchester so I left the girls (ever travelled with 4 women? EEK!) and headed off to my new adventure...alone. lasted a couple fo months here but didnt like it too much so joined my friend Marnie in Warwickshire. Marns bought a car and we worked here for a while the we set off together on our road trip on route to our next destination Scotland. We packed the car up with our favourite snacks and all the essentials ie.(toilet paper) and set off for Wales, the through England stopping at too many places to say, then to Scotland 2 weeks later and this is where we are now. The road trip was amazing, we had such a great time, one of our friends Kate is still working in london and the other Girl Kerrie left for home, a little home sick i think, so Its just me and Manrs and we are now living in Carnousite, Scotland.
So there you have a somewhat brief discription of what Ive been doing this year. Travelling has been a life changing experience for me and Im hooked.

I have kept a journal every day since we left and over time i will be publishing it on my blog for all to read.