Well, that’s it. This morning we leave for Rome airport for our plane flight home. It has been a fantastic adventure and one we will not forget for a long time. It feels like we have been away for ages but no doubt once we are home it will feel like we have only been away for the weekend. We do feel like we are ready to come home but not ready to go back to work. We certainly wouldn’t be opposed to heading off to another destination but obviously that can’t happen. We have been to some amazing places and seen some amazing things. We all agree though that London was our favourite city. It’s a fantastic place and it always helps when everything goes to plan as it did here. The accommodation in London was probably the best as well. Even though the accommodation in Florence was fantastic, it was let down by the constant noise which eventuated in a serious lack of sleep. We all agree that Paris was the most beautiful city and it also had the best tourist attractions. We all voted Switzerland as our favourite country. Switzerland was a massive surprise packet and it just blew us away. It has the most amazing views, beautiful fresh air, lots of things to do and the people there were very nice. We think it would be a bit of a toss-up for the nicest people between Munich, Switzerland and London. Unfortunately, the rudest people can be shared between the Parisians and the Italians. We all agreed that Rome has the best churches including the most amazing church, St. Peters Basilica. The history in Rome is beyond comparison and this place makes you feel very insignificant given the fact it has been around for so long. Unfortunately for us though Italy probably didn’t live up to expectations in other areas. Rome seems to be a city of contrast; it’s either black or white here. You can walk into a shop and get rude, arrogant service and walk into the next shop and have some of the loveliest service you’d ever get. You can go to a restaurant and get bad food and walk next door and get amazing food. It didn’t help that not a great deal really went right for us in Italy right back to the first time we stepped on a Trenitalia train for our journey to Milan. We have also had problems with the accommodation in Italy starting back in London when our Florence apartment got cancelled on us. The massive crowds of people and the hawkers shoving stuff in your face can take the gloss of some things as well. But all in all it has been a great holiday and one we have all enjoyed and we just wish we could fly back to London and start it all over again.
The Scroop family are hitting the holiday road, again, for another six week Griswold style European vacation. Starting in London we will train our way to Scotland, back down to Paris in France, on to Brugge in Belgium, Wurzburg in Germany, Salzburg in Austria, Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland and then to the Cinque Terre and Rome in Italy. Along the way we will hit the Scottish Highlands, scale the Eiger, walk the Cinque Terre trails and eat and drink our way to an empty bank account, again!
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