Trip Highlights: Both Scottish Highlands and Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula, Niccy bike in Amsterdam & Monaco. Paris said tapas & Mont Serrat in Barcelona. Niccy’s theatre; Brecht in Berlin, Musical in London, Shakespeare in Stratford and Flemish puppet show.
Best Drive: Both agreed 24 mile Slea Head Drive on Ireland’s SW tip although Niccy’s rushed drive to the Highlands in Scotland was unforgettable.
WOW moments: Eiffel Tower, Berlin Wall, Louve, London’s Soho, bike riding in Amsterdam (with mudguards!)
Lowlight: Paris had a cancelled flight & hotel that turned into a highlight when she scored a private room for four days!
Most expensive moment: Paris had a beer that cost 9 Euro (nearly the cost of a carton here!) and Niccy had an emergency hotel room (just outa Dublin) that cost 90 Euro (very swanky though!)
Stranger Generosity: Niccy’s trailblazing pin striped suit woman on London tube and Paris’s French gentleman (who spoke little English) at airport
Stranger disappointment: Niccy’s Newcastle coffee rage and Paris headbutted a potential mugger in Paris, Oh Paris also had a nasty Aerobus driver in Barca
Best meal: Paris raved about the Tapas in Spain
Favourite language: Niccy is in love with French and Paris speaks Spanish
Best Tip: Niccy mentioned the Japanese girls in Nice hostel’s tip to check out Monaco on the local bus for 2 Euro.
Best Proposition: Paris had an approach on Las Ramblas in Barcelona ‘You like lesbian?’ and Niccy got three in one day including a bunch of flowers!
I’ve been to cities that never close down, from Bath to Salisbury to Birmingham in London’s West, from Dublin to Galway to Loosvindovah to Limerick ‘stab city’ to Dingle in Ireland’s SW, to Paris, Blois & Beaugency and down to Nice in the South of France, to Barcelona in Northern Spain, across to Berlin – Germany, over to Amsterdam & Endinover in Holland, to Edinburgh, Invaness, Loch Ness,in bonnie Scotland, the Lakes District, Newcastle, Liverpool and Old London Town.
