Look who I met!!!

Found him in London...

Work in Kent

Well I still haven't got around to posting about our contiki trip, and I ended up posting my travel journal home so I don't have all the details with me anymore! All the photos are on Facebook though :)

We managed to get our jobs at the Garden Centre in northern Kent (in fact it's only 25 miles out of London) and we start in 2 days. Here it is here; Polhill Garden Centre (apparently it's the biggest in the south of England?)

Back in London, Europe was a BLAST

We made it! Had a blast on our tour, we did so many great things that its all a bit jumbled right now, but I kept a bit of a journal so will start blogging soon. I am starting to upload photos to Facebook so they can be found there soon!

Favourite places?? CROATIA, SWITZERLAND, THE NETHERLANDS :)

And we even drove on the highway outside Gent, I could see my student residence building where I lived!!!

We're off to Cornwall today, fingers crossed it doesnt keep raining (we're camping!!) and also that we can find jobs!

xxx R

In Italy!!!!!!

Hello from Venice!! We have just had a great day in the sun and on the canals.

Just a quick note to let you know that we are still alive, just unfortunately I can't get much access to the net or upload photos. I've got some good-uns though!!!

Hope you are all well and not too cold (mwhahahahahah).
Much love,
xxxx Renelle

Happy Mother's Day!!!

To our lovely mums and also to Lamb and nan;
Hope you have a fab day!!!

lots of love,
Renelle and Hamish

Contiki Plan

Helloooooooo!
In the very likely event that I don't get to use the internet much once we start our tour, here's a list of the places we'll be! Cant' wait! If anyone needs to contact us, Mum has a list of the contact phone numbers etc for the campsites we'll be staying at, or we can be reached by email or Hamish's cell +44 7896471609 it should roam in all the countries we're going to.

12th May – London to Paris
13th – Paris
14th – Paris
15th – Paris to Lyon
16th – Lyon to Barcelona
17th – Barcelona
18th – Barcelona to French Riviera
19th – French Riviera
20th - French Riviera to Venice
21st – Venice
22nd – Venice to Florence
23rd – Florence
24th – Florence to Rome
25th – Rome
26th – Rome to Sorrento
27th – Sorrento to Corfu
28th – Corfu
29th – Corfu
30th – Corfu
31st – Corfu to Athens
1st June – Athens
2nd – Athens to Kavala
3rd – Kavala to Cannakale
4th – Cannakale to Istanbul
5th – Istanbul
6th – Istanbul to Sofia
7th – Sofia to Ohrid
8th – Ohrid to Durres
9th – Durres to Dubrovnik
10th – Dubrovnik
11th – Dubrovnik
12th – Dubrovnik to Zadar
13th – Zadar to Budapest
14th – Budapest
15th – Budapest to Vienna
16th – Vienna
17th – Vienna to Prague
18th – Prague
19th – Prague
20th – Prague to Munich
21st – Munich to Swiss Alps
22nd – Swiss Alps
23rd – Swiss Alps to Heidelberg
24th - Heidelberg to Amsterdam
25th – Amsterdam
26th – Amsterdam to London

Bring it on!!

Dublin, Guiness and on to Belfast

First order of the day was a trip to the Guinness Storehouse in central Dublin, near the site of the St James’ Brewery. It’s a modern exhibition about Guinness, and I really enjoyed it. It went through the whole history and process of brewing, as well as other things I’d never think of like the logistics of such a global brand, and advertising through the ages. Best thing about it though was the free pint of Guinness we got to enjoy at the top of the complex, in a glass-walled bar overlooking Dublin. Magic. I really do think the stuff over here tastes better than back home…
Hamish 'drowning' in a vat of 272,000 pints

My pint at 10:30am in the Gravity bar; 7 stories up. Mmm delish.

Slainte! (cheers in Gaelic - It's supposed to have an accent over it too but I can't seem to be able to get that to publish on here lol).

We missed our free walking tour of Dublin so checked out a few things ourselves, like Trinity College. The library there is amazing and it houses many ancient manuscripts and the Book of Kells (an ancient and beautifully illustrated hand-written Gaelic translation of the Bible written by monks). Unfortunately we couldn’t shell out to see it but I got a postcard!!
You can get a little idea of it from the type of picture on this sign

We then bussed to Belfast (from the window I saw a FOX!!!) and we’ll spend the next 2 days here. More to come on that…

Hope you are all well!! Lots of love, R