Saturday, May 31, 2008
hi friends!
for those of you who still actually read this blog, hello! still alive! and happily wandering all over europe, which explains the entire lack of updates and photos, both here and on facebook. so far everything's been a blast and the food's been great, and i have like a million photos on backlog. i always meant to do a proper paris post since it's still my favourite city thus far, but in the meantime, i'll just put up a few choice photos and my famous one liners for each city.
the quintessential eiffel tower shot, paris is awesomely beautiful. i have a million photos of paris but i'm just too lazy to edit and upload them. soon, soon.
mont st michel, a must-visit, but overly touristy. pretty at night though! wish i had a tripod though... and the few days we were there, it was overcast and cloudy.
st malo, i couldn't find a decent shot of it, but it's essentially a walled city and all i can remember of it is seafood. loads and loads of seafood. and a beach.
nice! nicest town so far, cobbled beaches and blue seas, quaint, quiet, and great food
monaco, land of the rich people, where i realised i cannot make my fortune at the casinos, and that i must return to the cote d'azur when i'm rich in future.
amsterdam, the venice of the north, where i remember herrings, fried food in walls, bikes and canal boat rides. plus random red light districts all around.
charles bridge at night. there're too many things to say about how beautiful prague is, especially at night, so i'll just leave it at that. sorry the photo's so blurry, i was lazy to choose a nice one.
maria am gestade, church of st mary in vienna, where the view is simply gorgeous. of course, it also didn't hurt that the church appeared in before sunrise.
view from the top of st peter's church in munich, you can see the old town hall and frauenkirche from here. it's not as fun without the beer though.
neuschwanstein castle, the fairytale castle that supposedly inspired disney's sleeping beauty and cinderella castles. pity the sky wasn't all that blue that day. but it was breathtaking, especially from the bridge.right. so that's my very hasty update for now, more photos to follow once i'm done with greece and budapest and italy, and berlin as well (which is where i am now, just in case anyone was wondering). and proper photos should follow once i'm terribly bored back at home, I HOPE.
wen was dreaming at 2:35 PM
Friday, May 02, 2008
my travel plans!
blog very dead. yeah i know. i have like 2 posts pending which were supposed to coincide with the end of exchange (i.e. last week when i left kingston for good), but i was terribly busy and now i suspect they'll never see the light of day cos the timing's all off.
so anyways, just a quick update, done with a week in london, it was sunny for a day and rainy for the most part, but at least joel was there so i wasn't soggy and wet and miserable and lonely. just the former three. and london in a pinch is essentially about the markets, in much the same way nyc is about the shopping and broadway. plus les mis on broadway i found nicer than les mis on westend, although eponine still remains charmingly cute. but it was good nonetheless. did the whole tea and scones thing in london as well, along with the fish and chips, and the football watching in the bars. but yeah. london. markets. and if you're terribly bored, do the neil gaiman neverwhere trail (i.e. the underground) but despite all that (and the disgustingly high cost of living), i did enjoy london and the charming british accent (especially on the girls). oh, plus i caught "we will rock you" on west end, which was basically an excuse for a queen's greatest hits concert poorly disguised as a musical with no plot. but it was really fun to see the whole theatre jumping around and singing along. once they gave up pretending there was any point to the story.
which brings us to where i am now, in my hostel in paris, having taken random snapshots of the canal next door at night and practiced my gawdawful french on the poor kebab uncle down the street (twas a long, painful dinner, mostly on his part, because i was bored and tried to ask him about his menu and where he came from, in very bad broken french and lots of hand gestures). and there's a mad dog barking outside my hostel (or a dog barking madly rather), and it's been there for the last hour and nobody has shot it or chased it away yet. and tomorrow i will begin my glorious 3 weeks of wandering the streets of paris. the term flâneur comes to mind.
alright. will attempt to update more frequently, although i can't promise pictures! actually, i can quite assuredly promise there won't be any pictures for now. maybe after i go back home and end up terribly bored and missing exchange.
so anyways, just a quick update, done with a week in london, it was sunny for a day and rainy for the most part, but at least joel was there so i wasn't soggy and wet and miserable and lonely. just the former three. and london in a pinch is essentially about the markets, in much the same way nyc is about the shopping and broadway. plus les mis on broadway i found nicer than les mis on westend, although eponine still remains charmingly cute. but it was good nonetheless. did the whole tea and scones thing in london as well, along with the fish and chips, and the football watching in the bars. but yeah. london. markets. and if you're terribly bored, do the neil gaiman neverwhere trail (i.e. the underground) but despite all that (and the disgustingly high cost of living), i did enjoy london and the charming british accent (especially on the girls). oh, plus i caught "we will rock you" on west end, which was basically an excuse for a queen's greatest hits concert poorly disguised as a musical with no plot. but it was really fun to see the whole theatre jumping around and singing along. once they gave up pretending there was any point to the story.
which brings us to where i am now, in my hostel in paris, having taken random snapshots of the canal next door at night and practiced my gawdawful french on the poor kebab uncle down the street (twas a long, painful dinner, mostly on his part, because i was bored and tried to ask him about his menu and where he came from, in very bad broken french and lots of hand gestures). and there's a mad dog barking outside my hostel (or a dog barking madly rather), and it's been there for the last hour and nobody has shot it or chased it away yet. and tomorrow i will begin my glorious 3 weeks of wandering the streets of paris. the term flâneur comes to mind.
alright. will attempt to update more frequently, although i can't promise pictures! actually, i can quite assuredly promise there won't be any pictures for now. maybe after i go back home and end up terribly bored and missing exchange.
wen was dreaming at 3:56 PM