and ‘The Bastille’.

Posted by Ben on Apr 27, 2010 | 4 comments

On the first night, Donal and I were roomed with a fella from China named Ling Tong. He ended up being the nicest guy on tour. But when we first met him, we had no idea what he was talking about. He said he was 22, 23 and 21 years old. 22 here, 21 someone else and 23 in China. He also told us his name was then Tony. I didn’t know what to do, so I started calling him Ping Pong. This eventuated into Ping which about a quarter of the bus began to use.

He didn’t like it, so we ended up all calling him by his ‘English’ name – Tony. He gets a special mention here because he was one of the guys who made the tour. He was odd; he was always looking for Chinese restaurants, hugging my mate Rich down the streets of Europe until they looked like a gay couple, and would laugh on end until everyone else was laughing. You are a legend mate. Good ole Ping Pong.

Anyway, enough rambling. I’m sure you want to hear a little more about the actually trip!

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Paris – Day 1

Posted by Ben on Apr 24, 2010 | 5 comments

WOW!

Where do I begin?!

First things first, I WILL be posting a lot over the next few weeks, with constant updates from the various cities I visited while on my 3 week adventure around Europe. BUT I’ll need time to do so because I’m so bogged down with the inconvenience of having my bag stolen. However, this is a story for another time.

I’ll skip the boring crap explaining how I reached possibly the worst looking hostel in the world – the clink. If anything ever comes of my blog, I’ll highly enforce a de-marketing scheme of this hostel. Although I didn’t technically stay there, I was told from my new found American friends, “it’s a shithole”, and that’s to put it nicely. This was drastically reinforced all trip.

ANYWAY, we reached Dover ports and got on the ferry where we crossed the English Channel to reach Calais in France. The first piece of Europe I saw. I’ve never been more excited in my life.

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