Contiki Craziness - Part 9

Day 9 - Florance to Switzerland Lucerne

Nat our fearless tour guide explained to us 'always double bag, after a masscive night out on the Contiki Craziness' and as you can imagine, we felt sick and the rest of the bus was feeling down right ill! The Captains slept it off as we were used to a big night on the rum.

Though the rest of the land lovers were throwing up left right and centre, luckily they didn't throw up in the bus toilets otherwise as the bus driver Jordi said 'if anyone throws up in the toilet or takes a crap, it'll get into the bus air conditioning and stink the whole bus out', thankfully this didn't happen but I can just imagine the consequences on a long bus ride.

The pirates sat zombied out from such a big night, people re-counted their stories and exploits from the previous night at the disco, it was very amusing. The bus stopped for another Italian grill and back we went to Burger King and McDonald's to the small queues, we're such tourists ahhh well.

The Contiki bus crossed the border and Nat gave us a huge talk on Switzerland and their part in wars and how they are a neutral country.

- Not part of the EU
- Crrency Swiss Franc
- One of the few counties not to enter the world wards
- Defensive country, all roads and entrances can be blown up by the Swiss Military
- Farms have underground tunnels, train tracks and bunkers so they can initiate immediate response to a threat.
- Very defensive as all neighbouring countries are very powerful i.e. Germany, Italy, Austria and France.
- All houses are equipped with guns, bombs and shelters.
- Extremely pretty place though cold

The captains arrived in Lucerne and were shown a Swiss army knife shop, they didn't look any cheaper than normal however it was a public holiday and they exchanged our money there and we were happy with that. Captain Barboasa had the money changed and divided the plunder between the captains, we were all running very low on funds at that stage however we managed to find ourselves in a nice cafe overlooking the city square.

Captn Morgan gave Captn Barboasa an informative lecture on saddlebags because Barboasa wasn't quite up with the captain code but after a little training Barboasa'll be just tops. After that we got ready to go to our accommodation 'The Jail House'. Nat asked us to pack a night bag and carry our bags across a bridge, I'm guessing this is because our tour driver and guide didn't want to waste the time in taking all our large bags out, it wasn't exactly that hard to get to.

It did save us some time though and we found our rooms no problem, they were pretty make shift but did the trick. As there was hardly any ventilation, being an x-jail they were a tad smelly, though the three course meal bought us up a notch or two. That night we got an early sleep though Captns Morgan n Cook were haunted throughout the night but people smoking outside and the smoke entering their rooms and water from the showers running directly through their room at 3am!!!!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeha