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Well that is all the photos from my trip to Europe last Spring. I hope you enjoyed them. Despite my first day of the tour pickpocketing incident it was a good trip. My only challenge was being the oldest one on the tour by some 5-10 years. So I remembered from my last Contiki tour to bring tour guide books from Chapters before I left. What a Godsend that was! It was perfect and with those hop-on/hop-off tours I was able to see alot of sights in a short amount of time. Contiki tours are semi-structured allowing free time to just explore so it is a great balance for us single travellers. It is now normal bus tours in the future as I reached that famous 35 year mark making me too old for Contiki tours. Finding that bus tours are realizing there are solo travellers out there and are accommodating to us. It is nice to see. If I had to make any recommendations from this tour - definitely add Southern France/French & Italian Riveira to your list of places to see. It is absolutely beautiful and totally worth it. This was one of my last big trips for a while, as I bought my first house of course. Not to say this will stop my future travelling about, but it will spread them out. One of the next places I would like to go is Moscow, where I now have friends living there. I am halfway there with my Visa points to fly there free (excluding the cost of airport and gas taxes of course). I have wanted to go to Moscow since my dad came back in 1974 (that would make me 4 at that time) from an education exchange conference he went on. I still have the two russian dolls he gave me with their customary clothes, along with my sister's doll too. That was the beginning of my doll collecting years. His recent visit to St. Petersberg in 2004, he gave me the wooden doll that fit multiple dolls within, with a ballerina doing a scene from Famous Swan Lake ballet on the outer side of the doll. Happy Travelling far or near to all my family and friends!!