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Friday 24th June 2005 - and it is all starting very soon!!!
For this reason, the layout of this page has been changed
Immediately below is Tanya's complete itinerary
detailing where she will be day-by-day and what she will seeing and doing
Towards the bottom of the page is all the pre-trip information
including Busabout details, the coaches, emails from Tanya, her ticket, etc



Below are listed the tours and travel that Tanya has booked

ACCOMMODATION
These links are also from Tanya's site,
and give as much information as possible on where she will be staying

BUSABOUT LINKS
These links are from BUSABOUT'S web site
and the pages give a brief story on each of the cities plus lists the main attractions
and suggested tours along with one or two photos

TANYA'S LINKS
These are the pages from Tanya's own web site and will include all her "Dear Diary" notes,
emails and of course, the hundreds of photos she will take!!!

PHOTOS OF TANYA
By far the best way to look at "Tanya's trek through Europe" is to look at the albumns below
But if you want to just check out the pics of Tanya, well click here
Every photo of Tanya on one page!!! - and there's 360 of them!!!

TEXT MESSAGES
As well as emailing and sending photos, Tanya has sent lots of texts
Click here to read her daily notes - updated to Friday 30th September 2005

DATE	DETAILS	ACCOMMODATION	BUSABOUT -LINK	TANYA'S -LINK
UNITED KINGDOM
THE START	London	"Home Sweet Home"	London	Ready to go!! 2 photos
SPAIN
Monday 4th July	London to Spain	------	------	------
Monday 4th July -to -Friday 8th July	San Fermin Fiesta -and -The Running of the Bulls	Camping El Molino	Official site	Tanya's Diary 78 photos 7 videos The Tour
Friday 8th July -to -Sunday 10th July	San Sebastian	Enjoy San Sebastion -Lolo Urban House	San Sebastian	Included on the above page
Monday 11th July	San Sebastian to Barcelona	------	Barcelona	------
Monday 11th July -to -Wednesday 13th July	Barcelona	Centric Point Hostel -CHANGED TO -Sea Point Hostel	as above	Tanya's Diary 68 photos
Thursday 14th July	Barcelona to Valencia	------	Valencia	------
Thursday 14th July -to -Friday 15th July	Valencia	Hostal Moratin	as above	Tanya's Diary 33 photos
Saturday 16th July	Valencia to Madrid	Hostal Metropol	Madrid	Tanya's Diary 1 photo
Sunday 17th July	Madrid to Granada	------	Granada	------
	Granada to Seville	------	Seville	------
Sunday 17th July -to -Tuesday 19th July	Seville	Bed & Breakfast Naranjo	as above	Tanya's Diary 67 photos 1 video
PORTUGAL
Wednesday 20th July	Seville to Lagos	------	Lagos	------
Wednesday 20th July -to -Saturday 23rd July	Lagos	Casa Amarela	as above	Tanya's Diary 47 photos
Sunday 24th July	Lagos to Lisbon	------	Lisbon	------
Sunday 24th July -to -Tuesday 26th July	Lisbon	Residencia Luena	as above	Tanya's Diary 78 photos
SPAIN
Wednesday 27th July	Lisbon to Salamanca	------	Salamanca	Tanya's Diary 10 photos
	Salamanca to Madrid	------	Madrid	------
Wednesday 27th July	Madrid	Hostal Metropol	as above	Tanya's Diary 34 photos
GERMANY
Thursday 28th July	Madrid to Berlin	------	Berlin	------
Thursday 28th July -to -Saturday 30th July	Berlin	Citystay Hostel	as above	Tanya's Diary 64 photos
Sunday 31st July	Berlin to Dresden	------	Dresden	------
CZECH REPUBLIC
Sunday 31st July	Dresden to Prague	------	Prague	------
Sunday 31st July -to -Tuesday 2nd August	Prague	Top Hotel Praha	as above	Tanya's Diary 67 photos
Wednesday 3rd August	Prague to Cesky Krumlov	------	Cesky Krumlov	------
Wednesday 3rd August -to -Thursday 4th August	Cesky Krumlov	Hostel 99	as above	Tanya's Diary 39 photos
AUSTRIA
Friday 5th August	Cesky Krumlov to Vienna	Wombat City Hostel Vienna	Vienna	Included on the above page
HUNGARY
Saturday 6th August	Vienna to Budapest	------	Budapest	------
Saturday 6th August -to -Sunday 7th August	Budapest	MellowMood Central Hostel	as above	Tanya's Diary 77 photos
AUSTRIA
Monday 8th August	Budapest to Vienna	------	Vienna	------
Monday 8th August -to -Wednesday 10th August	Vienna	Wombat City Hostel Vienna	as above	Tanya's Diary 85 photos
Thursday 11th August	Vienna to Salzburg	------	Salzburg	------
Thursday 11th August -to -Friday 12th August	Salzburg	Yoho International Hostel	as above	Tanya's Diary 70 photos 3 videos 1 music file
GERMANY
Saturday 13th August	Salzburg to Munich	Wombat City Hostel Munich	Munich	Tanya's Diary
AUSTRIA
Sunday 14th August	Munich to St Johann	------	St Johann	------
Sunday 14th August -to -Monday 15th August	St. Johann in Tirol	Bunnys Pub	as above	Tanya's Diary 25 photos
ITALY
Tuesday 16th August	St Johann to Venice	------	Venice	------
Tuesday 16th August -to -Thursday 18th August	Venice	Plus Alba D'Oro Camping	as above	Tanya's Diary 87 photos
GREECE
Friday 19th August	Venice to Athens	------	------	------
Friday 19th August -to -Saturday 20th August	Athens	Aristoteles Hotel -CHANGED TO -Hotel Filoxenia	------	Tanya's Diary 31 photos
Sunday 21st August -to -Wednesday 31st August	Greek Island Explorer -Mykonos - Paros - Ios -Santorini - Naxos	The names and some details on Tanya's accommodation are included in the Diary Photos are also included	Greek Islands	The Tour Details Tanya's Diary 245 photos 1 video
Wednesday 31st August	Athens	Aristoteles Hotel -CHANGED TO -Hotel Filoxenia	------	Included on the above page
ITALY
Thursday 1st September	Athens to Rome	Alessandro Downtown -CHANGED TO -Alessandro Legends	Rome	Tanya's Diary
Friday 2nd September -to -Sunday 4th September	Sorrento	Village Camping Campogaio -Santafortunata	------	Tanya's Diary 166 photos 3 videos
Monday 5th September -to -Tuesday 6th September	Rome	Plus Camping Roma	Rome	Tanya's Diary 3 photos
Wednesday 7th September	Rome to Siena	------	Siena	CHANGE Not going to Sienna
Wednesday 7th September -to -Thursday 8th September	Siena	Soggiorno Lo Stellino	as above	CHANGE Not going to Sienna
Wednesday 7th September	Rome to Florence	------	Florence	------
Wednesday 7th September -to -Friday 9th September	Florence	Camp Internazionale Firenze	as above	Tanya's Diary 53 photos
Saturday 10th September	Florence to Pisa	------	Pisa	Tanya's Diary 20 photos
	Pisa to La Spezia	------	La Spezia	------
Saturday 10th September -to -Thursday 15th September	La Spezia - Cinque Terre	La Dolce Vita	as above	Tanya's Diary 93 photos
FRANCE
Friday 16th September	La Spezia to Nice	------	Nice	------
Friday 16th September -to -Monday 19th September	Nice	Antares	as above	Tanya's Diary 2 photos
SWITZERLAND
Tuesday 20th September	Nice to Lauterbrunnen	------	Lauterbrunnen	------
Tuesday 20th September -to -Thursday 22nd September	Lauterbrunnen	Camping Jungfrau	as above	Tanya's Diary 2 photos
Friday 23rd September	Lauterbrunnen to Lucerne	------	Lucerne	------
Friday 23rd September -to -Saturday 24th September	Lucerne	Tourist Hotel Lucerne	as above	Tanya's Diary 1 photo
GERMANY
Sunday 25th September	Lucerne to Munich	------	Munich	------
Sunday 25th September -to -Friday 29th September	Munich	Wombat City Hostel Munich	as above	Tanya's Diary 2 photos
UNITED KINGDOM
Friday 30th September	Munich to London	-"Home Sweet Home"	London	Returned to stay with her friends at "The Stag" pub!!!

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Pre-trip Information

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As can be seen from the notes and details below,
Tanya is organising a trip around Europe during the second-half of 2005

She is planning to start travelling on Monday 4th July,
when she leaves London and heads to Spain

Below is the 2005 Season brochure from BUSABOUT
and this explains how their "flexible transport network" works around Europe

Also below are emails from Tanya which give some details on her plans,
and these will be updated as the weeks go by and her plans become more definite

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Busabout Brochure

Page One
Cover
"Europe - Your Adventure - Your Way"
Page Two
What is BUSABOUT?
Page Three
Map
"36 magnificent cities - 12 exciting countries"
Page Four
Where to begin?
Page Five
Travel Options - Excellent Extras - Easy Links
Page Six
"Europes Hottest Locations 1"
Page Seven
"Europes Hottest Locations 2"
Page Eight
Travel planner - Accommodation
Page Nine
Timetable
Page Ten
Excellent Extra - Morroco
Excellent Extra - Croatia
Page Eleven
Excellent Extra - Greece
Excellent Extra - Italy

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Emails from Tanya - Countdown to Departure!!!

On Monday 7th February 2005
"I go to Spain on Monday 4th July for "The Running of the Bulls"
Then on Friday 8th July, I go to San Sebastian and will join up with BUSABOUT
and go around Spain and Portugal
On Thursday 28th July, I fly from Madrid to Berlin
and connect back up with BUSABOUT there
I then come down through
Germany - Czech Republic - Austria - Hungary - Italy - France - Switzerland
and to the Greek Islands
Plus, depending on what happens in Holland with Brett and the Baseball World Cup,
I might have to fit that in as well!!
The dates for the World Cup at the moment are from Saturday 3rd
to Sunday 18th September 2005
Plans could change!! - but this gives a pretty good idea of what is happening
Tanya"
......and on Tuesday 8th February 2005
"Fun is an understatement I think!!
It will be exhausting jumping on a bus every 2-3 days
and living out of my backpack and in hostels for three months
But it will be totally worth it!! - trip of a lifetime!! - another one anyway!!
I will be heading back to London afterwards to work some more"
......and on Tuesday 22nd March 2005
"I will not be going back to "Home Sweet Home"!!
The thing with going away for so long is that I don't get to keep the house!
I could pay the £912.00 rent but that would be a big chunk out of my savings
so I will have to find a new place when I get back
Going to doss for a while with friends and then get organised again
So that can just be a question mark for now"
......and on Thursday 14th April 2005
"Budgeting for her Busabout Tour of Europe
Cutting down my budget from £50 to £30 from this week and I seem to be going okay
Won't be having much of a life tho until I go!!
Have a few things booked but no just going out for dinner or movies and stuff
- need the cash for the trip!!"
......and on Friday 22nd April 2005
"It's just ten weeks until my holiday (Busabout Europe)
- I can't belive how soon it is!"
......and on Wednesday 18th May 2005
"About six weeks until I go - frigg!
Three months of no work!! - just holidays and beaches and foreigners!!"
......and on Thursday 2nd June 2005
"Just thirty-two more sleeps until I go on an eighty-two-day European holiday!
How awesome is that!!
Could you do it? - bearing in mind bus rides and hostel living for that whole time!
But the sun and the sights and the new people - I won't forget it in a hurry I expect"
......and on Tuesday 7th June 2005
"I went for my first tanning session today
- want to get a bit of a base before I head off because it is already thirty degrees in Spain
and I will just fry otherwise!!
I know it's not the best idea but there you go - not much else I could do
I will have sunnies and suncreen and a hat but I aint wearing long sleeves!!
- I will be in bikini's and skirts/shorts!!"
......and on Thursday 9th June 2005
"Sunday I might go to Lillywhites and get some boardies
- I need to have some to swim in when I go away because I don't have any yet
And I want to get a few more singlets too and one more skirt and some three-quarter pants
but that is it
All ready to go!! - and just twenty-five more sleeps!!"
......and on Sunday 12th June 2005
"After that I hit the shops for some Busabout Europe trip stuff
Got new runners, three-quarter pants, a skirt, some boardies, summer pjs
and then bandaids and contact solution and nail brush etc etc etc
Got a couple more things to get and then I will be ready to go!!"
......and on Thursday 16th June 2005
"Lunch time and I am off to get my bikini's altered - just need the straps pulled up a bit
Fourty degrees in Pamplona (Spain) on Saturday so I will be using that pool - bring it on!!"
......and on Thursday 23rd June 2005
"I did have my stand up tanning session this morning
I am definately not particularly tanned
but I am not the almost transluscent white that I was before I started!!
- and that is all that I wanted - just a bit of a start because I will sizzle in Spain otherwise
Starting to get really organised now
I am still looking for that damn travel hairbrush but I found one
and I am buying it on the weekend - just waiting for the half-price-sale to start!!
Have to buy a sleeping mat because in the tents in Pamps it is just the ground
and our sleeping bags which might be a bit painful on the old back
I found one for £4.00 and for that price I can leave it in Spain once I am done there"
......and on Friday 24th June 2005
"Busabout Tour - continuing to get organised!!
I have everything in my backpack that I want to take but I know it is too much
and tonight I will be going through it all again and sorting it out
The weather is so good here at the moment that I am wearing all my holiday stuff
- skirts and singlets etc
So with things in the wash and being worn its a bit tricky keeping track of what I have to take!!
Anyway, it's looking pretty good"
......and on Monday 27th June 2005
"Busabout tour - just seven sleeps to go!!!
Re text messages while I am away - I can received txts for free
but it costs me 50p to send them - so you mightn't be getting them all that often!!
Re internet cafes while I am away - they are apparently very, very, very expensive too!!
Anyway, you will hear if anything happens - which it won't!!
I will be taking a phone card too so you are probably more likely to get a call once a week
- and knowing me I won't be able to help myself and you will get texts
and I will probably have to go without food to pay the bill!!
This week will just be spent seeing people off
- Aaron and Nathan and Jason and Karen will all be gone home by the time I get back
And having dinners and lunches!!
And going the pub for my leaving do on Saturday
By the way, Ella, Lesley, Suzi, Claire and Larna will still be here when I get back from Europe,
but pretty much everyone else will be gone - it will be strange!!"
......and on Thursday 30th June 2005
"Well, the Busabout tour starts very soon
and I am trying to be motivated to work but it is hard!!
I am making chicken rolls for the twenty hour bus ride to Spai
We are on the ferry for some of it though - from Dover to Calais
but roadhouse food is always expensive and is always crappy!
Plus I still have 'squeezy' Vegemite that you sent me ages ago
- I only use it when I go away and I haven't been away in ages
Another going-away party last night - there is just so many - I don't like it!!
Crappy weather at the moment so I can't sit in the park!!
- but I am heading to the 'Spain' sunshine very soon!"