Top Deck Training Trip

After the Russia Scandi trip I applied for a job driving at Top Deck Travel. First I was told I had to do a training trip. I was told that there was a Spain, Portugal Morocco trip leaving the following day which gave me very little time to get a visa for Spain and Portugal.

We left the following morning with a fantastic bunch of passengers. I shared the driving on the entire trip and just as well got to know my way around that trip as I ended up doing 6 of them over the future 2 years.

We began at the Running of the Bulls at Pamplona Span so it was a quick trip down to Pamplona BUT, we hit a snag as soon as wen crossed to Calais. We were told by a friendly cop we needed new front tyres, so off we go and get that done before continuing on.

Pamplona is a bit like Oktoberfest in Munich, all the Top Deck buses turn up. We had a Top Deck Picnic day whilst there where each bus had their own 30 litre Sangria Mix.

All went well and we stocked up on 100 dozen cans of San Miguel beer for our time in Morocco as the beer there is horrible. Along the way we got Ice almost everywhere and kept the esky full as and when we could. There was an honesty chart with everybody’s names and they would tick off each beer they had. All totalled up including the ice and the missing beers not accounted for and each person paid towards the end of the trip.

We got to Barcelona and had engine issues. The driver and I did a full engine rebuild in the Barcelona campsite. This turned out to be a learning experience as later I had to do similar to a different bus.

We got back to London and was given a bus to do a Russia Scandi in which broke down in Berlin. I was then given a Beerfest trip and during that trip at Munich was switched to another bus to do a 7 Week Europe and I was on that bus for several more trips after that.