Van Tour Europe 09

FRANCE

-Dover to Calais – Calais was poo.

-Rouen - Rouen was amazing, cute old village enjoyed French sticks and cheese

-La Rochelle- La Rochelle was breathtaking! Such a beautiful city on the beach, great night markets, bars and marina.

SPAIN

-La Rochelle to San Sebastian- Busy beach side city, got blind with our mates that came from London to meet us.

- Pamplona – RUNNING OF THE BULLS! – Fantastic, 4 days of drinking disgusting Sangria and watching crazy Spanish men getting pummelled by bulls. Stayed with Stoke camping, loved the crew there.

PORTUGAL

- Ericeria- Cute old beach town, most people spoke English which was helpful. Great surf, stayed at a surf camp with a few mates..

- Lisbon –  Just another big hot sticky city.. Just drove straight through it and found a great surf beach, slept in the car park.

- Lagos –Awesome beach party vibe, went out every night.

- Olhao – Stayed in a beautiful camping ground, enjoyed a big bbq.

- P.Verde – Played and boozed on the beach all day, enjoyed the warm water!!

SPAIN

-Valencia – Nice city. Reminded us of a big version of Melbourne. I had the flu or something, so I didn’t really enjoy it.

-Tarragona- Beautiful quiet beach town. Camped on the beach under a big tree. Got drink with Spanish fisherman all night.

-Barcelona- We were super tired and couldn’t be bothered with the traffic for a car spot, so we parked and went for a swim at the first beach we saw. Tried for hours to find a camping ground. We gave up and booked into a 5 star Resort and had a night of luxury and free porn J

FRANCE

-Le Barcares- We loved it here, stayed a week. Had an awesome park right on the beach and just drank, sun baked and ate all day.

- Marseille – Just drove straight through it, couldn’t be bothered with another big city. Stayed the night in a cute town called Cross Regnier.

- St Tropez – I can’t believe how much money some people have.. Boats, bigger boats and massive boats… Stayed in a camping ground 40ks inland from St Tropez. We had a bbq and a crazy French guy poured a bucket of water all over our food because of the fire ban.. Bastard could have asked us nicely!

SWITZERLAND

-Bern- Drove through the beautiful French Alps. We absolutely loved Bern. We stayed in a campground right on the Airre River the first night, but got rudely booted out in the morning, supposed playing bongos and laughing at Finish boys with shiny faces wasn’t appropriate for 4 in the morning.. So we just free camped next to the camping ground, swam and played in the park for 4 days. We were in Switzerland for National Swiss day which involved thousands of people running around drunk with fireworks, one almost hit me in the head.

LIECHTENSTEIN

- Small tiny town with a cute castle and a few cats, that’s about it.

AUSTRIA

-We stayed one night in Innsbruck. It was a pretty city, but it was raining really hard the whole time we were there, so we decided to move on.

ITALY

-Dolomites- Gorgeous snow capped mountains. Went for a huge mountain hike and ate lunch on top of a mountain peak. Enjoyed authentic Italian wood fire pizza.

SLOVENIA

-Great beach town. Treated ourselves to cocktails in a tropical bar called Alyah. Found a great camping spot on the beach and caught hermit crabs.

CROATIA

-Almost checked into a Nudist camp without realising it. Pag was amazing! We hired an apartment for 7 nights, just relaxed and drank, sun baked and celebrated my birthday with a massive bender on the Navalia beach.

Dubrovnik- Nice city, only stayed there for a day, explored the old town.

MONTENEGRO

- We got denied at the border the first time we tried to get into Montenegro because we didn’t have any registration papers in our car. Once we had them sent over we got through just fine. Beautiful mountainous country with amazing beaches.

ALBANIA

-Bloody Albania, I can’t believe we survived it with kamikaze drivers, farm animals on the road, cliff face roads with stray dogs and burning rubbish everywhere! Crazy country, but we really enjoyed it. We stayed 2 nights.

GREECE

-Corfu was beautiful, to bad the Pink Palace wasn’t. It was like being on school camp, but we had fun. Took quad bikes around the mountain and swam in crystal clear water.

Stayed 3 more nights in the old town in a sneaky car park on the beach.

-  Florina- Stayed with family friends in a cute old village. They fed us until we almost died, and I never want to see Ouzo again! But we loved staying with them.

BULGARIA

-Stayed in a beautiful forest, camped at a trout farm the first night. Explored the Rilla forest and visited a beautiful monastery. Checked into a hotel for a night just because we missed TV and a proper shower. Stumbled across an annual Bulgarian music festival full of crazy people, music and animals on spits, it was fun but I feared for my life so we got out of there quick smart.

SERBIA

-After realising we had to pay a 120 Euro road tax fee to enter the country, we decided to just drive straight through it. We just wanted to get to Hungry to meet up with our buddies from Australia that were coming to meet us.

HUNGARY

-Had no luck finding a camping ground the first night, so pigged out on Maccas and slept in a car park.

-Budapest- We stayed in a camp ground in the centre of the city with a heap of other Van Tour vans. Drank heaps and got trashed. Met out mates that come from Melbourne to travel the rest of the way with us.

SLOVAKIA

- Bratislava -This joint was fun until some bastard stole all of my clothes from my van, including all my dirty undies!

AUSTRIA

-Vienna was amazing. Camped with a crew of VT vans. We hit the town and had a few unforgettable big nights.

CHEZH

-Prague was amazing, we stayed in a camping ground still as a massive VT group, things started to get even more messy leading up to the 100 club.. we tried to do our own, but got distracted and just ended up blind not knowing what was going on.

-Chesky Krumlov- This was one of my favourite cities. It was like something out if a fairy tale. We stayed in a beautiful hostel and enjoyed a few nice meals and wine.

GERMANY – OCTOBERFEST

Best part of the trip by far!!! We got dressed up as slutty beer wenches and went to town on the steins. We spent 4 whole days in the tents and I developed massive biceps from lifting my beer to my mouth. Reunited with the stoke crew, was good to see them all.

-Cologne- Camped in a rabbit infested camp ground and ate too much pizza.

NETHERLANDS

-Amsterdam….. Loved this joint.. Hash and truffles at your fingertips.. We stayed in a crack den of a hostel, but we loved it.  

BELGIUM

-Bruges- Stayed with some friends that we met in Bratislava. Cooked up a massive Bbq and ate like kings. Walked around the beautiful city and ate Belgium chocolate.

FRANCE

-Back through France to get the ferry across to Dover.

UK

-Dropped off our van and that was VT09!!