Yesterday we left Innsbruck in the morning and arrived on Venice for lunch. Innsbruck a picturesque Austrian city surrounded by the alps. There are lovely squares called place's and cobbled pavements. Lots of restaurants and cafes. There is a palace right in the heart and all the little streets and places dot around it . Had a typical Austrian dinner Leah ordered the brartworst sausage and I ordered the wiener schnitzel, then we shared. It was served with a mash...

We have arrived in Rome, staying in an old convent converted into hotel. It is very stately

Arrived on Europe yesterday. Left from the Hilton in Kensington at 4 30 am!! Picked up by taxi to victoria station then on coach to Dover , So have now had a ride in London cab they are cool. There's about 48 people on tour with us. All different ages and nationalities although it seems plenty of Australians. A few young ones there's a girl from Sydney travelling on her own, she is Is 25, also a family with 3 teenagers from athelstone! another a vietnamese fa...

Bit miserable weather today, overcast and raining Waited for Leah and Kate then went to west end for food shopping and entertainment!! Really heavy rain to start then settled and sun came out ! Hugely busy in there we could see loads of people all lining up in the rain and lots of police putting up barricades etc so we went up to a group of young girls and asked They looked at us like where on earth have you been!! They were there for the Harry potter re...

Went to falveys in East ham today Lovely to see them had a comforting and familiar lunch ie gamon, buttery potatoes, salad with the usual hard boiled egg and spring onion ! Thoroughly enjoyable Managed the trip well no problem with tube, then dropped Leah off to Kate in Leicester square so she could spend night with Kate, Ryan and Amy Checked out the show tickets so will come back tomorrow to get them apparently the half price ones get released on the day Th...