18 December 2008 ' 12:25 PM
Hai Peepos~~~~
Im back from Europe woo..
All right places i went to: (According to Days.)
Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, France.
Some we stayed for a few days so yea...
pictures will be at another website.
DAY 1
Kay, flight was 13 hours, didnt slp much. maybe 3 or 4 hours la. but not much.
Touched down in Italy. Their airport wasnt that nice.
It looked old and well... NOT REFURBISHED.. Waiting for our luggages was like long.. ( i went with my mum =D )
k so finally, our luggage was out.
Then, we went to the coach. Drive drive drive to the central part of Rome to meet with our city tour guide, the local one, not our Singaporean one, named Stanley.
SO after like 1, 2 hours of driving, reached the meeting place. Tour guide's name was Carlo.
He gave us the introduction of a church we would be visiting.
Went into the church, walk walk, see see look look. come out =D church was quite big lurh...
k after that, we drove around the city of Rome. Well, it was filled with different buildings mainly ruins of the olden day architecture. history!!!!
ah.. then the nice part. the colloseum. it was also rundown but it was nice. too bad it started to RAIN.. bad luck lurh. didnt really spend much time there. hais. WASTED....
So yea, after lunch the guide went to do other stuff and we said bye bye. raining so didnt do much. went back to the hotel around 7pm (their time is GMT + 1 so Singapore is 7 hours faster )
DAY 2
Florence lurh... had to check out of the hotel every time. drove to florence. along the way, looked out the window and it was very misty.
before meeting our local guide, Stanley brought us to a mountainous place. took some photos of florence. Nice angle and view seh.. swee... k then we walked along some roadway between buildings till we reached YET another cathedral... where we met our local guide, a lady, Rose.
She looked like she was 50+? but she had very good stamina.
k before that, we had lunch at a self service restaurant. it is a place where there is an array of food. u pick your choice, they microwave to heat it up then they giv it to you =D
was not bad la.
Rose took us on a walking tour. First, we went into the cathedral it was big.. went out, saw a nice dome. the pictures taken inside were quite blur so.. =/
went to another place where Rose explained some history. Went out and saw like a face on the ground carved. not bad ...
Rose then took us to a museum. inside, we read how the people were treated. badly, some okay okay. after museum-ing, walked to see many statues built for memorial purposes. didnt go up close. walked away soon after.
Walked along the streets. they had a few people who wore make up and took pictures for a price. There was Cupid(?), and 2 others i didnt know...
k then Rose took us to a bridge where we took some nice pics yey..
she then took us to hear some part of a musical. coz there was a celebration coming up. and yea it was enclosed so it was very loud with trumpets, and musical stuff.
Rose then led us to a leather making company. there, we bade farewell to her after 3 HOURS of walking non-stop. they made nice leather siol...
had Italian Dinner that day. 1 of 2 of the special dinner provided. the swiss and this. the rest were chinese de. had many things. soup, spaghetti, roasted pork, ice cream. soup and spaghetti were bland... pork was nice, ice cream i took only the vanilla one. that dinner was also soso.. =/
DAY 3.
Went to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Looked so new and WHITE. Did not look like it was built many many years ago seh. Stanley gave is 2h + there!!!! so long.. after taking pics, had a hot dog =D nice.. went for coffee to kill time.. oh yea.. then drove for a long way.. a few hours drive to Venice... Long time. so today was quite short..
Day 4.
Checked out of Hotel, drove to the jetty to take the ferry to venice. it is said that it is made of 100+ of islands. not bad. the ferry trip was boring. could not see anything outside due to the mist. ALSO VERY cooollld....
Went to the glass making factory. they said that red was the most expensive as it was hardest to make. did not buy anything there. ONE MIRROR well a big one COST 24K EURO. which is like Singapore 45K?!?!?!?
Had our Gondola ride there in Venice. the eh.. how to say... Gondola-ist? he should be singing but he didnt hais. he whistled the tune of Hey Jude by the Beatles only. haishhh. k nvm.
Nothing much happened after that.. so yea NEXT DAY
Day 5.
Milano.. it is the financial district and the fashion capital of Italy. Shopping time for the ladies. Noooooo. but first, city tour. the local guide. forgot the name =X took us to the castle which Napoleon the first stayed. he was the invader and he conquered Milan. he was a French.
We were then taken to another cathedral. it was HUGE. italy had very big big churches.. =P not much to my interest... so nvm...
Shopped at a place which was indoors. but wind could still enter so it was cold. Saw the first PRADA shop. wasnt very big.. it was like any ordinary shop. One thing is that, Their MacDonalds was very very nice. Very very classy. Nice siol. Wasnt given much time as we had a 5 hour drive to Switzerland =/
had the swiss fondue dinner that day. There was cheese, meat and chocolate fondue. Cheese wasnt that nice as there was ALCOHOL in it. =/ Meat was nice, like steamboat but the soup was salty. Chocolate was nice but i tried with orange. okay not good... but with marshmallow and banana was nice
Day 6
Went up the mountain. Stopped by to go into some ice palace. 11k feet above sea level. the top of europe, JungFraujoch. Pronounced as YongFrao. its german and their J is pronounced as Y.
11k. Dizzy.. Thin air sia. Cant breathe well. did not enjoy that. Lunch up there to me due to the breathlessness was not that nice. wasted. when going down, a few skiiers saw us. we waved to them. THEY WAVED BACK. there was one guy who posed for us also lol. Swiss people are friendlier then those Italians. =P
took a few nice pics of houses along the way down.
DAY 7.
Went up a mountain again. but it is not 11k it is 10k feet above sea level. it was better. was still able to breathe well. took cable cars up. had to change to 3 cable cars in order to reach the top.
Had my lunch at a self service restaurant. Oh yea, in my group. there was a teacher who knew Mr Haniff =D remember him anot. Our ex vp of TVPS. lol.
After that, went down the same way we came up. Cable car. K after that, drove to a monument. the saddest lion. it is to show that the swiss sacrificed themselves to protect their country. a queen was captured and later beheaded... cruel...
Then, went to see a 200m long bridge. there were many ducks and swans =D pretty birds seh.
Shopping time again. Nooooo.
DAY 8,
OMG.. i did not hear wrongly... 10 HOUR DRIVE FROM SWISS TO PARIS. ZOMG.... so today nothing lorh =/
Day 9.
Drove around the city of beautiful france =D. then went up the Eiffel Tower. View from up there was very nice... Took alot of pictures. also saw the River Seine and the Notre Dame. There was this story the HunchBack of NotreDame. Remember? it is fake == no real hunchback. it is just that it is written so well that it made it look real. Shopped for 5 hours almost at Paris. i was ... nvm.. coz there was only 1 day in Paris hais. WASTED.
DAY 10.
Fly fly come home. Hai!
So there. thats my europe trip.
So many days in italy. hais. BORING. Churches not many people's interest. No offence to Christians and Catholics =X
So yea. Italy soso. Swiz best. Paris okay.
Buaix!
