Hey I'm Jennifer,

Is there anyone who is taking the London to Rome tour this June 15 - July 02?

I'm a 22 year old female going solo from the States and this is my first Contiki Tour! I'm really excited and am looking to get to know some of the travel mates before the trip. Let me know if you're going or if you've any advice.

Hi!

Are you leaving the states on the 15th and London on the 17th? If you are, some of us on the tour are here ... http://connect.contiki.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/484105522/m/378103153

Hi Jennifer

i'm Brenton from Australia, i'm headin on the june London to Rome tour aswell, i'd be happy to give advice...but its my first contiki to. I get to London on the 8th, there's a few people going so i'm sure it will be great fun, and some pre-tour say hello drinks should definetly be on the cards.

Hey Brenton

Very cool, so what are the dates of your tour? You traveling solo or with friends?

Haha, you're right, pre-tour drinks are definetly in order!

i think it leaves on the 17th till the 2nd,

i'm headin to the UK early to have a look around before it leaves, you know... try some guinness from the guinness brewrey kind of stuff

yeh i'm traveling solo, your first contiki tour hey... excited?
i hear contiki is the best.

sweet. if that's the case then we're on the same tour!

i must confess, i've never even been to europe before so I too am very excited. i wanted to go earlier before it starts, like you're doing, but didn't know anyone and chickened out. so, i respect your boldness and am honestly a bit jealous.

as for you hearing contiki is the best, i've heard the same. some of my south african friends have been on these tours before, and their parents went in their 20's, and all loved it. do you have any particular thing you’re interested in doing or seeing while we're there?
- jenn

Hey
Yeh i was a bit iffy about just randomly showing up in london a week early with no plans, but hey, i figured you only live once so what the hell.

there's not really much i know about the areas we're visiting so i don't really know what there is to do, the tour should take care of all the site seeing, so like every 24yr old aussie in the world i think i'll just chill out and have fun. .

What about yourself?

I think we are the same tour... The American dates are from when you leave the US. What I meant was do you leave London on June 17th? I'm on London to Athens which arrives in Rome on July 2nd. There are 3 others on the same tour on the forum link I posted...

eh, i'm not too excited about london but later in the trip i most definitely want to hit up some wine/beer “tasting”, versailles, the beach, and of course the spanish nightclubs.

other than that i'll go with the flow and be up for just about anything.

so i have to ask... the trip's in june, which if i'm not mistaken is winter in australia, so is this your winter break from something?

hey sajeet, unless the "london to rome" and "london to athens" tours are combined until we reach rome then i think we're on different tours? If not, the more the merrier! (i'll starting chatting with you all in the other forum too. perhaps someone there will know what's up with the tours.)

Yeh winters on the way.
Nah we don't have seasonal breaks here, i'm just on holidays from work and i figured that its the best time of year to visit Europe.

beer, beaches and nightclubs.... are you sure your not Australian?

Yeh spain and paris should be pretty good, lookin forward to venice as well, i have a few friends that have been there and they said its pretty good.
- Brenton

nah, unfortunately not so much... but, still pretty badass though

so what have your friends had to say about venice? you traveled anywhere outside australia? and, not to play twenty questions or anything, but what is it that you do? (lucky to be taking such a long break from work!)

this is startin to sound like an interview, are you sure you don't work for some cellphone survey company?

A few of my friends did Europe (and their hell party animals). They did amsterdam, prague and the like and they said Venice was one of the best places they saw. Not realy a party capital, just chilled out and interesting.

Yeh i just got back from India, Oman and the UAE with work, nice places but i wouldn't holiday there.

I'm a Marine Engineer in the Australian Navy.

What do you do?
Whats it like in the states? i have a friend from florida, who tells me the west coast is a lot better than the east. Is he tellin the truth or havin me on?
- Brenton

you know, naturally i do what i can to make people feel like they're being interviewed.

so you're a naval man, that's cool. though, i'm not really sure what a marine engineer does...
how did you become a marine engineer? Do you just work for the navy or are you actually serving in the military? (here you have to serve 6 years)

as for me, i'm graduating from university with a degree in business administration. i finished my last final this week monday and ironically am in florida as we speak. i'm here on a quick vacation before my graduation this weekend.

the contiki tour is my graduation gift to myself/a summer holiday for me before i throw myself into the real world with a job. so... as of now i don't do much which is a first for me.

the states are, well, home to me so not too exciting. there are almost different US cultures within the country it self. which is what your friend was referring to when speaking of the west cost being "better" than the east. the east and west costs are very, very different as are the northeastern and midwestern portions of the country. when i say different i mean everything from accents, to what people wear, education levels, types of jobs, how the people behave, etc. as to what part of the sates is better, it just depends on your preferences. i'm from the east cost and prefer it over the west cost though my brother lives in seattle on the west cost... so again, personal tastes.

- Jenn

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neat bit of info:

i just found out from sajeet that the "london to rome" tour is a module of the longer "london to athens" tour. so, anyone goinig on the london to athens tour durinig the same dates, june 15/17 - july 02, is with us from london until rome!

thanks sajeet