Welcome to my first entry in a long time. Everything’s been pretty hectic in the last few months. I guess I’ve got some gaps to fill in. We’re settled down now into a little flat. I’ve got a job that I’m pretty happy with. But lets start with the best bits first.
Our Contiki Tour
We left London not sure exactly what to expect on a bus full of randoms. As we crossed over the Thames we got our first real postcard view of London with a handful of world-class landmarks plus sunrise and fog. Pretty soon though the fog got so thick we could hardly make out the trees by the side of the road and everything else was just white. We caught a ferry from Dover, where we saw those famous white cliffs, to France (Calais I think). For the time being we were just passing through, bound for Amsterdam.
We arrived there at nightfall, just in time to take a cruise down the canals. This gave us a great view of all the beautiful architecture, complete with 4 storey houses literally leaning on each other. The tour then took us on an … err … enlightening strole through one of Amsterdam’s more famous districts. We also saw the Heineken brewery and the Van Gough museum and bunches of other cool stuff while we were there.
The next major stop was Switzerland. We jumped straight off the bus and onto the gondolas that took us up to the top of Mt Pilatus, 7000 ft, where our hotel awaited us. That ride was arguably the single most amazing part of the trip. As we passed through forests of snow-covered pines it looked just like Narnia. The view from the top was amazing, just a sea of clouds with large chunks of mountain jutting out. Unfortunately the gondolas stopped running much sooner than we expected so we didn’t get as much time in the snow as we would have liked. So most of our free day in Switzerland was spent exploring the city of Lucerne which was ok, but a bit of a snooze fest compared to the fun we could have been having in the snow. Anyway we plan on getting back there eventually to do it properly. Contiki’s good for that – getting a taste of a few different places so you know what you want to come back and spend time on. Oh and there was this Swissco thing which I would only recommend to those looking to spend a lot of money on alcohol and possibly pick up.
Well I guess that’s about enough about our tour for now. More on that later.
In other news: Woohoo!! We just scored free tickets to go see the filming of an episode of The IT Crowd 
We applied for them online a couple weeks ago. There’s apparently going to be another episode with Noel Fielding in it and we put him down as our favourite comedian so they may have chosen us for that one.