berlin.

this is what i call a classic procrastinator would do…
after almost a year.. sh*t! it’s been almost a year since i came back from europe.
and flipping through my legion of photos in my harddisk.. i realised i did prepare some collages for my (future) posts which never exactly been realised.. -_-” how typical of me.

so… i guess i’ll just stamp this collage of Berlin for this entry. (read, it’s already 050509!!!! *faint*)
and i haven’t gotten any photos from the rest of the members of this trip!!!! why oh why?!?! :/

the europe trail.

Since I’d decided (or determined) to blog about my trip to Europe (though I’m always procrastinating..).. I start looking into the Europe map and do a route tracing of where I had travel to throughout the my trip in trains…  *you know, you don’t buy Eurail for nothing.. and since we’re youth, we should make FULL use of it before we get out of the youth range…* So pple, those who are still young, adventurous and of course, with some money enough to survive throughout ur Euro adventure.. Europe is ONE of the BEST trip destinations anyone could ask for. (Esp to the Asians.. cos ya know, to us, western cultures are just different from ours)

And so here is the map of the europe trail that I’d been to.. and step foot on.. And swear to myself, I am so gonna go back again ONE FINE DAY. *Hopefully not when I’m old, flimsy and useless though..* UK, Spain, Italy, Scandinavian, Turkey, Hungary.. which I had not yet been to.. And So wanted to explore more in France, Germany, Austria.. and OMG.. I just want to go back all again… hmmmm I kinda love Prague too.

Hmm.. wish I could be in the Discovery Travel & Living’s Globe Trekker or something…!! sigh.

excursion du Bénélux

This entry has been date June 20, 2008.. however.. now then do I make the effort to input some software into one whole chunk of photos to be generated into some simple collage… hmmm..

After Paris…. The tour of 2 of the 3 Benelux countries… Brussels and Amsterdam.

To be honest, between Brussels and Amsterdam… I much prefer the latter. But of Brussels is a worth touring city to visit too. It’s most probably cos of our hostel located in the Turkish settlement which made both Polly and me kind of queasy when we were on our way to do our laundry in some laundry shop. Oh, I guess I did not mention, we were the laundry IC of the trip. Ask us about the laundry matters in Europe, you got the right person! Haha.. but I think Polly is the official laundry lady I should say. Hehe.

Anyway, talking about Brussels.. it’s gotta be Belgium beer, frites (fries), waffles…

The next destination would be the land of wonder (windmill, sex, drugs, vincent van gogh)… Amsterdam!

Hmmm.. the next post shall be our trip to Berlin, Germany!!

postcards parade.

wow.. just came back from Japan last evening.. and nice surprise awaiting for me…

I’d received many postcards from the Europe gang and including the one I’d send to myself from Kyoto. I wanna get out s’pore again… *sob* sorry… still in the withdrawal syndrome state..

p/s: total of 14 postcards (including one from Japan)

First Stop: Paris

As I promised myself.. I should at least be updating some of my trip to Europe in this blog. Having trip is really, really a great experience for me. In terms of perspective, thinking, life and working.. so much to learn, so much to see and so much to feel and think. It’s like an intensive crash course in life and the world for almost a month… to see the other side of the world.. and learn many new things. Backpacking can be tiring at times, but most of the time, we are trying to make full use of the time we have to explore whatever we could get from the cities we’d visited. As written from the title, Paris, is my first stop in Europe. I’d always been dreaming of going to Paris, to visit the Lourve museum.. And I did! Both the night view of Lourve and Eiffel Tower is amazing.. and strolling along the Avenue des Champ Elysees was really quite an experience too.. All the branded.. including (somewhat) Singaporeans’ favourite branded goods? = Louis Vuitton

Building is just located along this stretch of street. Slowly, we approached the famous Arc de Triomphe where many tourist buses blocked our view, disrupt us to take a nice picture with it. It was quite amazingly cold in the night.. since the sun has set and the temperature falls to approx. 15 degree celsius? To me, it was really quite a good temperature to travel around Europe, definitely. Too bad, I couldn’t have to chance to explore the Lourve more thoroughly.. given unemployed pple like us.. we choose the free admission timing for students below age of 26.. and only managed to walk through the level 2..! Of course, we went to see the famous Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. And as expected, a whole bunch of people just crowd around her with cameras flashing non-stop. So.. she’s been famous for hundreds of years.. and still she’s the attention-grabber of the museum. (anyway, cos my camera battery was left in the hostel when i went to the Lourve.. so.. I currently do not have the photos with me.. cos I need to get from the rest.. and now their travelling in Switzerland.. I assume…. )

Ok.. shall let photos do the talking.. And I’ll definitely visit Paris soon again..! (hopefully)

Art Noveau – The Metropolitian