back in london

hey guys! i'm back in london. :-( my tour is over, sadly. we got back a couple hours ago and started saying goodbye to people (actually we said goodbye to a couple people in amsterdam who weren't coming back here with us). then i took a long shower and searched for an internet cafe. finding none, i came back to the hotel and am using the one there (there's is kind of expensive so i was looking for something more reasonable). anyway, after this i am heading over to the london pub for one last night with the people from tour. most of us are leaving london tomorrow, so we are going to have one last party before we all say goodbye. it's going to be sad, since i will probably never see most of these people again (since almost all of them live in australia and the chances of me getting enough money and time off to visit sometime soon is not good - but we'll see - who knows?)
the end of the tour was really great. switzerland was beautiful, as i mentioned in my last post. after that, we headed up to the rhine valley in germany which was also very beautiful. we did some wine tasting (riesling grapes and ice wine) and then headed over to the netherlands. we saw how they make gouda cheese and wooden clogs and took a scenic bike ride through a small fishing village (saw a windmill!). after that we headed into amsterdam. amsterdam is a pretty cool city - they have lots of museums and everyone bikes everywhere. there are actually more bikes in the city than there are people. we took a cruise through the canals and visited anne frank's house and drank lots of heineken. all in all, it was fun. now, we are back to london and on to our real lives again (well, for some of us. other people are continuing traveling other places. lucky!). ok, so i'm signing off. this will be my last post from europe. i will talk to you all again when i'm back in the states thursday night!