Imperial London

July 25, 2006 Here I was on a plane to Heathrow airport (in London) beginning my field marketing internship with Contiki Holidays, a travel and vacation company that caters to the young traveler, mainly 18-35 yr olds. As one of the 45 chosen interns, Contiki Holidays was providing me with an all-inclusive, two-week tour through Europe. My excitement was barely containable as I thought about all the new sights I would see and the amazing people I would undoubtedly be sharing lifelong memories ...

Here we are in Amsterdam! First a quick note on whats happened since the last entry... Britt and I spent another day wandering around London. First a boat cruise down the Thames River, then we checked into our first Contiki hotel, the Imperial Hotel in Russell Square. Then we did a quick walk around the British Museum... where Britt broke her camera (read about that on her page). Then we took a ride on the London Eye which is a 135 metres tall ferris wheel thing in the heart of London where y...

C-O-N-T-I-K-I July 25-August 8 So, my very first trip to Europe. Am I going to hate it or love it.. embrace it or be an ignorant AMERICAN. More importantly.. this was my very first Contiki... this trip will be similar to the European Discovery tour.. how is it going to be.. are there going to be strict jam packed schedules? Am I going to be dropped off in the middle of a foreign country and left to find my own route back.. What am I to expect? My trip includes stops in London, Paris, Lucerne(...

Morning Funny how things work out. Mom was right: I meant to write in here on the plane, but it just didn't happen. Speaking of which, I don't know whether my flight here was good or not. We left mom and Adrienne at the gates to customs and I managed not to cry. We got through customs, the shuttle, etc. all in record time. I need to fly evenings more often! We got to our gate and had about 2 hours to blow, but they went by pretty fast. We boarded at about 630pm and I managed to switch seats w...

After I finished school in February 2007, I spent 6 weeks traveling around Europe with a tour company called Contiki. I did a 4-week tour of the major Western European highlights, then met Mom in London for a few days, then met up with James to do a cruise around Greece & Turkey! What a trip!

It all started in London on April 1, 2007.

Who would have thought sleeping on a plane could be so comfortable? This morning when I woke up we were around Iceland and they were serving breakfast. We landed in London at 9:43 and while they announced our arrival they also called 2 names to go to the baggage claim desk. One of those names was mine and the other was the couple I flew with from Jacksonville. I went to the baggage claim desk and I was told that my baggage wasn't on the plane with me. Just freaking peachy. I explained the sit...

I woke up this morning around 1am. I guess the combination of jet lag and my multi-hour nap in the afternoon was not agreeing with my body's internal clock. Navneet was sleeping, and I was bored, so I decided to hang out in the bathtub. Inspection of the tub revealed several hairs of indeterminable origin. I turned on the water to rinse out the tub, and, not realizing that the water was diverted from the faucet to the shower head already, drenched myself. I scrubbed out the tub, filled it, an...

This was one very long day in transit. After breakfast and some tearful goodbyes in the hotel, the coach departed Amsterdam around 8am. One group member, who was supposed to come with us, had a rough time the night before, being arrested by the Amsterdam Police for urinating, of all places, on the police station. We hit the road and made great time to our first service stop. By the time we got to the ferry at Calais, however, things were much rougher. There had been an accident in the chunnel...

22nd Mar 2007 to 26th Mar 2007 & 15th April 2007 to 19th April 2007 Stayed at Imperial Hotel (Russell Square)

to be continued