hey great thread, thanks for answers. im doing the 46 day camping but am stopping at amsterdam as going back to london seems a bit redundant. was wondering how many other people stop before tour go's back to london. imagine others like me would do all their london exploring before the tour starts. cheers

On both of the European tours i've done, no one has stayed behind in Amsterdam. Everyone who started on the tour in London ended it there.

im stopping in amsterdam, seems like it makes sense to me

Hi,

I am doing the 22 Day camping trip end of May 2010, in reading this forum there is a lot of info. on not having enough time. I was wondering if someone could give me a rough idea of how many hours you get in each city and the structuring of the day as in what time you do breakfast, free time, travel time i.e on the bus.

On days when we packed up camp to go to another town, i got up at 6, packed my tent and bag, had breakfast at 7 and packed the coach ready for a 7.30 departure. Was one of the coach packers on our tour. Was fun doing that.
As you go, you get better and quicker at packing up your tent and bag. The quicker you are, the more you can sleep in.
When we stayed in the same town, we got up at different times depending on what activities were going to be done that day. Average wake up time on those days was 7 or 8.
On some days, you could spend most of it travelling on the bus. Leave around 7.30 and get to the destination in the afternoon. The bus does stop once or twice for everyone to stretch their legs, go to the toilet, get some food. While on the bus, it's a good time to chat, catch up on sleep, update your travel journal if you choose to keep one.
Some towns you stop at, you can have a entire day to look around. It depends on what optional extras you do and what spare time you have after them.