Contiki's "European Encounter": 6/30 - 7/15

United Kingdom...France...Belgium...Netherlands...Germany...Switzerland...Liechtenstein...Austria...Italy...Vatican City...Italy...France...Monaco...France...United Kingdom

For these two weeks, six of us joined a "European Encounter" tour organized by Contiki. Here we are in the photo below.

Although the tour schedule offered less flexibility than travelling on our own, we met lots of new friends and appreciated the good accommodations and our walking textbook tour guide, Jane Phillips. Jane kept us informed of all the local happenings and provided lots of information--both historical and anecdotal. Of course, we can't forget our friendly and skilled "coach captain," Mark Duncan. Look at our trip records and photos, starting from 6/30. Most are taken with my digital camera, but there are also nice scanned pictures from my girlfriend's camera. Some of the photos have wrong dates printed on them, but I've put them on the correct webpage.

We covered over 5500 km, following roughly the route shown below. Take a look at a digital collage of our photos from this tour.

Jane's useful sheet with commonly used phrases in various European languages is here.
Contact info of the members on our tour are on two pages: page 1 and page 2.

Be sure to check out other sites that have photos from our tour:
Sandra's site: http://www.geocities.com/sandra_de_freitas/contiki2000.html
European Encounter June/July 2000 Yahoo! Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EuropeanEncounter