Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone is going on the tour departing on the 22nd of July. How EXCITING!!! Only like 30 days till departure, hope everyone is in training (drinking training that is!). Anyhow, get in touch!
Sammy.

Hi Sammy! I'll be on that tour with you! My name is Laura. I'm 23 and from the USA. It's going to be my first time in Europe and I'm soooooo excited.

Hi Sammy and Laura,
I will also be going with both of you on the tour. My name is Kristal. I am 25 and it will also be my first time in Europe. I am very excited but very nervous because I am going on my own. I am from San Diego, California USA. I am looking forward to meeting you all

hi kristal! i'm really nervous also, and i'm not even going alone. i'm going with my 18-year-old cousin, rose, and i feel like we'll probably be interested in different things since we're, well, five years apart. what are you looking foward to most?

laura

hi there, brad here, myself and 3 other friends (3 guys, 1 girl) are on this tour whoohooooh, cant wait. Not long now We are from Perth, Western Australia.

sammy the training is going spectacularly well! Where are you from?

btw if you are myspace people, there is a thread (i think the same laura...) on there for this trip. (under the contiki myspace user / forum)

yep, same laura. hi brad.

Hi guys,
just a little about me...im 23 female, single, living in Tasmania (That tiny island at the bottom of Australia) and no i dont have a tassie devil for a pet! im a restaurant manager at a small seafood place in hobart. When is everyone arriving in london? i think i get in on the 20th and have two nights at the contiki hotel. Im actually planning to stay after the tour as well and play up in london for a while. Good to see your trainning brad!!

ahh another aussie, cool sammy I've a tooheys extra dry in hand as we speak. Ive only been down to tassie once ... awesome national parks there! We're all single except for the girl in our group (of 4). Were getting into london on the 17th I think it is, staying with various friends and what not. We're jumping off the tour in paris and meeting with another friend to head to barcelona and other places in spain (on our own accord, not contiki) ... then onto athens and out to go island hopping (again not contiki) ... back into london late august before heading back to oz late august. I cant wait to escape this cold wet weather!

are you on myspace / facebook sammy?

hey, i am also arriving in london on the 20th at 8:00am.

Hey guys, I'm going on the tour too. I'm Kelly and I'm going with my friend Donna, we're both from New Jersey. We're leaving a day earlier though to have an extra day in London. I'm soo excited! I just recieved the itnerary today.

hi kelly. i'm going with my cousin, rose, and she's from new jersey too (linwood), and i'm from new york (long island). i think that's so weird. i hear there usually are very few, if any, americans on these things and we've already got 3 new jerseyers, 1 new yorker, and 1 californian. so weird.

laura

wow that is weird, but cool in a way. we're from kearny, it's more north like 20 mins from manhattan.

Oh my god...i leave austalia in like 17 days and im so bloody scared right now! nothing a vodka wont fix im sure. Brad, thats a negative on the facebook thing, far to technologically advanced for me. Is anyone else having packing issues i have no idea what to take...20kgs of luggage....how is a girl meant to live off that?????

hahah, 14 days for us sammy ... you'll be right mate! dunno about your luggage thing, 20kg is not much! ... my mate leah reckons she'll be jamming crap into my backpack ... i think not! its going to be a busy couple of weeks here, so much to organise.

i think im kinda too organised so now i dont have much to do really apart from pack so all i do is think about the fact im literally going by myself and i wont know anyone. I think its a little more scary as im staying to work and live. But i did hear this quote the other day "if you dont plan anything then nothing can go wrong" which i kinda liked. Are you on myspace brad ill go check you out and it may even give me inspiration to create my own. How many pairs of shoes is your girl friend taking...dont laugh its a serious question...its such an issue.