We have booked tickets with Busabout to tour around Northern Europe in October!!! (Amsterdam, Prague, Paris, Bruge...etc etc). The tickets were 50% off so we are stoked! It's kind of like Contiki tour...but not really. You pay for the coach travel, but u can stay in each place as long as you want. The coaches come on certain days to certain places. Basically it's a lot more freedom but without the hassle of missing trains and finding hostels yourself in foreign language countries, which was the worst thing about our Italy trip.
There is a tour guide on board and you can do actiivites as a group, but if you didn't get along with your group you could just stay a place an extra night and meet up with a new crowd. Friends have done it and sounds like lots of fun and a great way to meet people so we are looking forward to it!! We are in the process of quitting jobs and moving out of our flat... It's all go. We have to have our trip completed by 30 Oct as the Busabout season ends...but we may travel a bit more after that - possibly visit a few friends in different places! And then after that we are either doing a ski season in France or moving to Scotland or Ireland for a wee while! Just in time for a freezing winter!!
ight. They were only in London for the weekend as they are actually going to be working in the Isle of Wight. Saturday afternoon we caught up for a picnic in Hyde Park and then went to Footloose at the theatre. It was pretty cool. We hadn't planned to see it but I had found tickets for only £10 each that morning so I though it would be a cool treat for Gina. Sunday we went to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum..don't pay full price! book online 24 hours before and pay only £10 by not going until 4.30ish...still leaving us with plenty of time to see it all. I was pretty impressed with the mueseum, it was loads of fun and we took a trillion pics...my fave ones are below - to see more see our album. After the Museum we headed into the centre a bit more as the Thames Festival was on. There was an amazing parade, soo many fantastic costumes that must've taken hours to make....we grabbed some dinner and waited for the sky to darken and then the firweorks display started...it went on for a good 10 minutes and was absolutely incredible.
Anyway we still had a nice time, you’re only in there for 40mins as it’s too cold, so we took a dozen pics and enjoyed our cocktails, drunk out of glasses made of ice, and then ran out of there quickly as our fingers were about to fall off from the cold!
After that we wandered down the street and found a bar to have another drink in. Lee-Ann and I splashed out on a jug of a cocktail =) soo yum. We were feeling a little bit peckish and Sheree had ordered some nacho chips & dips so we decided to get wedges…see photo… yes there are 5 wedges in total! Enough for one each! 
We looked around these amazing buildings and a church which are now a university/music school. And the best thing about the day trip was that it only cost £6...and that was for Niki's travel and a snack. We're getting good at this "travelling on a budget" thing! London is actually very good for having loads of free attractions