Sunday, July 03, 2005
europe!
hello pple! finally back to my sister place at manchester again after 2 weeks of wandering in europe! overall it has been quite a interesting experience...i also how to blog in everything...i will just write what i can remember...
venice!
reached there pretty late on the first night by water bus...anyway cos its a city on water u really have to used to the lingo of taxi n bus as water taxi n bus instead of those running on the land... cos it was pretty late already so there were limited choices for food n we had to settle for quite a high end restaurant for food...pauperized! the next day my bro planned all the places n it was like really alot to go so many places in just one day but we had to leave the next day so we had to rush things..few of the places we went included the doge palace, a doge is something like a king in ancient times...then the st marks square in front of it which is like a gathering place...lots of pigeons there..there r stalls selling some kind of seeds/food that the pigeons eat..so pple buy them to feed the pigeons..saw many pple either holding the seeds on their hands then the pigeons will fly to their hands n eat the food..more interestingly is got pple throwing the food on their friends, then the pigeons will flock to the person n eat the food off their body n head, ha! then we carry on walking n taking photos of all the ancient buildings..buay tahan...walked until "ka sng"..haha..europe toilet industry is really funny...in venice, i wanted to visit the toilet in mac but i have to buy something from there, then on the receipt there is a pin number to enter on the toilet's door to go in...omg...thats ok since i am allowed to use the toilet as the customer...amsterdam is lagi best...i need to pay 0.30 euros to use the toilet in BK n 0.25 euros in mac..omg! there are even more expensive ones in shopping malls and central station, 0.50 euros!..bo bian...nature calls..haa..k..enuf of toilet culture...meals is irregular when we were on the move, all depend on the convenience, price and how hungry we were...anyway tried some real large sized pizza..i call them ninja turtles pizza..ha!nice! b4 the sky gets dark..we went back to the hostel we stay in to put our things then went out again...we wanted to look for hard rock cafe but we failed!sobs! we walked real long n fast cudnt find it..my feet had blisters n we were dead beat!..can someone tell me if there is hard rock in venice?..disappointedly we went back to our hostel n prepare ourselves for tmw....hostelling culture is quite an experience too...the hostel we stayed in venice was with 2 beds so my bro n i shared one room...subsequently the other hostel we stayed in had 4,6 n 8 beds...shall continue to blog another time...ciao pple..see u all in sg soon!
venice!
reached there pretty late on the first night by water bus...anyway cos its a city on water u really have to used to the lingo of taxi n bus as water taxi n bus instead of those running on the land... cos it was pretty late already so there were limited choices for food n we had to settle for quite a high end restaurant for food...pauperized! the next day my bro planned all the places n it was like really alot to go so many places in just one day but we had to leave the next day so we had to rush things..few of the places we went included the doge palace, a doge is something like a king in ancient times...then the st marks square in front of it which is like a gathering place...lots of pigeons there..there r stalls selling some kind of seeds/food that the pigeons eat..so pple buy them to feed the pigeons..saw many pple either holding the seeds on their hands then the pigeons will fly to their hands n eat the food..more interestingly is got pple throwing the food on their friends, then the pigeons will flock to the person n eat the food off their body n head, ha! then we carry on walking n taking photos of all the ancient buildings..buay tahan...walked until "ka sng"..haha..europe toilet industry is really funny...in venice, i wanted to visit the toilet in mac but i have to buy something from there, then on the receipt there is a pin number to enter on the toilet's door to go in...omg...thats ok since i am allowed to use the toilet as the customer...amsterdam is lagi best...i need to pay 0.30 euros to use the toilet in BK n 0.25 euros in mac..omg! there are even more expensive ones in shopping malls and central station, 0.50 euros!..bo bian...nature calls..haa..k..enuf of toilet culture...meals is irregular when we were on the move, all depend on the convenience, price and how hungry we were...anyway tried some real large sized pizza..i call them ninja turtles pizza..ha!nice! b4 the sky gets dark..we went back to the hostel we stay in to put our things then went out again...we wanted to look for hard rock cafe but we failed!sobs! we walked real long n fast cudnt find it..my feet had blisters n we were dead beat!..can someone tell me if there is hard rock in venice?..disappointedly we went back to our hostel n prepare ourselves for tmw....hostelling culture is quite an experience too...the hostel we stayed in venice was with 2 beds so my bro n i shared one room...subsequently the other hostel we stayed in had 4,6 n 8 beds...shall continue to blog another time...ciao pple..see u all in sg soon!
// posted by lian soon @ 2:49 AM 
