Nice, Rhone Valley, the city of LOVE PARIS, Greece and Greek Islands, ah BLISS

Nice is NOICE!!!!!!!!
LOVED Nice, this place is a place everyone should visit very relaxing and very scenic, however I do not recommend the rock beach so hard to get out of the water...

Before viewing this photo I must advise there is nudity....bloody Craig, it is hard to spot though

This is some place in France, I think from memory some Popes lived here at one stage but then they changed the residence of the Pope back to Rome....we stayed at the Chateau de Frontager in the Rhone Valley....

there are paddocks full of sunflowers all over France, very beautiful

Napoleon's House, it was huge!!!

Penny and the Pringle trick, Pringles are everywhere here but we have found it hard to find Salt'n'Vinegar....whats wrong with Europe Salt'n'Vinegar are the BEST!

PARIS my favourite city of all.....

Paris would have to be the most beautiful city in the world. I did not have high expectations of Paris after visiting Rome, but it is a very clean city and full of 'amazing' (I need to find a new word hey...) sites and history. Our Conitki tour guide JB was full of so much knowledge and gave us all an incentive to research more on history. It was quiet embarrassing that we had so little knowledge of the place, I guess, where it really all began. The Eiffel Tower looks pretty dull during the day but at night WOW we could not stop raving about it, it would have to be the top of the list of places to see. I really wish we had more time here but again next time! Think Craig and I will have to do this trip all again. Contiki was a fantastic way to see the major places and sites within a short period of time plus we got an education along the way!!!!! And most of all touring around Europe with some pretty darn awesome people from around the world (although most were from Australia). We had the pleasure of touring Europe with the Frat Boys from Orange County, California, Matt from Cleveland, Ohio, Shannon and Jo from.....somewhere near Washington DC, Laura and Melissa from Canada, Jo and Lee from South Africa, a sweet couple from Malaysia, oh and there were some other Americans who didn't really mix within the group and the rest were from VIC, NSW and WA plus the 2 headed Tasweigens from Brisbane who in the end of the tour had new names Greg and Emma (I know what your all thinking "EMMA" I let it slide...) there were some accents that changed Craig to Greg quiet amusing, one thing I have learnt Australians really kill the english language but we also gave everyone else a education on the Australian language :-) so maybe we do speak proper and the rest of the world just don't know it....or maybe it's just me, I got told even by the Aussie's my accent is strong, think I might enrol on how to speak correctly...

Some of these I have forgotten what they are, need to go back to our notes from JB...

I know this one, it is the Opera House right near the shopping centre

Notre Dame

This is where Napoleon's tomb is

having a glass of sparking on the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower lit up

The 3 Frat Boys (AV, Brian, Jason), Dave and George at the front with Craig and Cam at the back

Arc de Triomphe - O MY GOODNESS this is one crazy round about, we had such a great bus driver 'Johnny' apparently he is a legend within Contiki and he took on this round about like a professional driver it was hilarious I really thought we were going to crash....

Venus de Milo

CHEESE....

outside The Lourve, now this is place is HUGE!!!!!

Last night in Paris

GREECE

Craig and I boarding our cruise around the Greek Island's

first stop MYKONOS
this place was awesome, really a great place to visit plus it sold Corn on a Cob YUM!!!!

watching the sunset, so beautiful

Kusadasi TURKEY
we visited the ancient city of Ephesus where Mark Antony and Cleopatra once strolled.. also I got really really spoilt here to the point I felt sick after and still do, Craig purchased not 1 but 2 beautiful rings for me. One has black diamonds and the other just diamonds.... they really are gorgeous... but I think there is a myth to his madness, I have one word 'BOAT'....

this rug was hand made by a turkish girl, it took her 5 years to complete and was on sale for the small price of $82K US, it was beautiful even though I'm not really into that kinda thing. Tradition in Turkey are all girls are to weave a rug before they are married...

PATMOS

Not a great deal to do here but still lovely to see, we hired a scooter for 30 euro all we had to do was give them Craigs drivers licence and said we had bike experience which Craig does but I have never rented something like that within a time frame of 5 minutes...crazy. It was a lot of fun but I did have to keep reminding myself they drive on the other side of the road felt weird and my legs hung out more than they would on a road bike so I copped a few prickles...

SANTORINI

I think this picture says it all....

ATHENS
Athens is a little dirty way worse than Rome....there are stray dogs and cats EVERYWHERE it freaks me out partically the cats (sorry cat lovers). We visited the Acropolis this morning another amazing site and marble EVERYWHERE

and these are just some other pic's I found on my camera and since I had time and free internet lets posts them cos they cute....

Austria, Venice, Rome, Florence, Monaco...

AUSTRIA
short stay here, we had been rafting in a freezing cold river that we had to jump in to, O MY Goodness I have never been in such cold water but it was totally worth it rafting is so much fun!!!


VENICE
loved this place definitely want to come back to visit, although I got kissed by an Italian and he was not a good looking one, he was old. I thought he was going for the graceful peck on the check, boy was I wrong straight on the lips.....some of the other girls also got tricked...never trust an Italian, over all though they are lovely people.

Craig and I with our new found friends Dave and Michelle, an awesome couple we met from Melbourne

more Contiki Crew

had a little to much here...and broke my rose

ROME

What a place.... the history and sites to see are like no other, our convict ruins are so brand new....Rome was quiet a dirty place but like I said the sites were amazing and lets not forget the food YUMMO

The Colosseum

hhhmmmm just a little excited here to have a drink on the street.....maybe not something to be proud of but we all were a but chuffed with the freedom in Europe

The Vatican wow what a church and the art work (here is that word again) 'AMAZING', one part of the Vatican which is probably the only part I took in, there is a room that no photo's are to be taken and you must be quiet (maybe this is why I remember this part....). Michelangelo painted the entire ceiling and walls of the life of Jesus Christ, it took him 4 years and apparently when he completed the art work he could only read or view something by looking up.... Also Craig and I had some embarrassing moments by being the matching couple you will see why below, this was noted within the Contiki Crew.....EMBARRASSING

The Conitki Crew on a messy night in Rome, what fun we had

FLORENCE

My husband spoilt me rotten here and purchased me a gorgeous leather jacket that I didn't want or even ask for....but the the Contiki crew said it looked great as did the hubby, very stoked with this purchase.

view of Florence

Leonardo

Michelangelo - apparently Michelangelo was quiet the shit and not very liked...

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Monaco

this place is insane and I thought Sovereign Island was sickening with wealth, this place is like no other. Very beautiful and lots and lots of rich people Craig and I were on the look out for a sugar daddy or sugar mama which ever came along first.....hehe. We had a lovely evening out in Monaco and a short visit to the Monte Carlo, the car park was like a car show AMAZING!!!!!

The Palace

Monte Carlo

the city of LOVE....PARIS - watch this space...

Me and Mona

ALSO COMING SOON will be a page on my signature pose, I have mastered it since the chin accident....