euro trip day 24
Prague-Ústi nad Labem, Czech
Family day today! Visit the cousin and family at a town outside Prague. It was a 1.5 hour drive. It was fun there at their home with their sons. We had lunch together. Tasted a Magnum with champagne flavor.
euro trip day 23
Prague, Czech
A laid back day, sleeping, eating, drinking tea, reading.. love the day. And at night watched a very special concert of The Tap Tap, a band from Czech that consists of people with disabilities. They were so great I hurt my hands from clapping too much!!!
euro trip day 22
Venice, Italy - Prague, Czech
The day started with a relaxed beginning, had lunch at a cute place near the Guggenheim Museum. And after that, yesss, the day has arrived.. for me to visit the Guggenheim Museum! It was one of the highlights of the trip. Incredible! It was this not that too big museum but the contents of it are really incredible (d’uh of course). All the paintings I used to see in books now had become real and I had witnessed them with my very own eyes. Just name the modern artists you know.. Picasso, Klee, Modigliani, Miro, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Pollock, Léger, Rothko, Dali, and many others.. they’re all there. I felt like I have died and went to art heaven. After that I had to catch a plane to Prague and yeayy back to the homey place again :)
euro trip day 21
Venice, Italy
It was raining until noon. The weather was quite okay after that. Had lunch and walked around the island again. Found so many small and cool shops, patisseries, and cafés. Got to the Peggy Guggenheim museum, but it was 15 minutes to closing time, tsk. Will try again tomorrow.
euro trip day 20
Venice, Italy
Yeay, arrived in Venezia or Venice, an island shaped a lot like a fish. The place where every transportation is by the water; water bus, gondola, ambulance boat, etc. Well either that or on foot. Got there by fast train, took only 2 hours from Florence. Reached Santa Lucia station and went by waterbus to Arsenale. Then walked around the island, went to a mask shop where the shopkeeper was excellenteee!! :) Had exquisite dinner with a vino rossi at a ristorante right in front of Rialto Bridge. Great day!
The Fruits
While you see pictures of me travelling happily like there’s no trouble, of course I have the down sides too. But I call them the fruits of travelling; the sour, the sweet, the bitter. There were countless stories of the sour and the bitter but mostly the sweet. I have experienced getting lost thousand of times, being ripped off for a high-priced food or souvenirs or stuff, being called a cheater for mistakenly cut in a line, having troubles at the airport for many simple reasons that i dont think necessary, having almost no money, being harshed at for no reason, having an overweight baggage, tired and super hurt feet while still had to drag luggages for like half an hour walking, and so on and so on. But on the other side, the journey also gave me lots of sweet stuff that can mostly be seen through the pictures. Either way, it’s all the fruit of travelling and it’s making me healthy. A journey all day keeps the doctors away.
euro trip day 19
Florence, Italy
It was raining again, but only for awhile. Had brunch at a pasticceria and had those 2 delizioso cakes. Walked farther around Florence and saw beautiful view of the city. Took a bus and climbed super many stairs to reach Giardino delle Rose, magnificent and beautiful view of Firenze! And climbed many stairs again to reach Piazza Michelangelo which there lies the famous sculpture of il David by Michelangelo. It surprised me that I somehow able to understand small conversation in italian! Perhaps because I learned French, similar with different dialect.
euro trip day 18
Florence, Italy
Ate some good pasta and walked around Florence. Went to Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, climbed 400 something stairs in a narrow and dark and super high place and i almost fainted. There at the dome lies the painting by Michelangelo, but oh boy i couldn’t stand there any longer, it was too high for me. It was raining almost all day in Florence.
euro trip day 17
Rome, Italy
Walked around the city once again, found shops that sell vintage things, tried Italian McD’s and I was surprised that McD’s resto in Rome still has the Rome feel inside its resto. Notice the statue inside it. They have this 90 cents espresso too, hehe cute. Had another capuccino in the afternoon and went to the famous spanish steps. It’s cool to see lots of priests and nuns blending in with the locals and tourists all over the city.
euro trip day 16
Rome, Italy
I still wanted pasta, so i tried pasta again at a recommended ristorante. Delicious! Traveled around Rome with a hop on hop off sightseeing tour bus and visited the Colosseum (Colosseo) and Fontana di Trevi, beautiful! Just like in the movies. Badly wanted a gelato, bought one and it fell off the floor right after the seller gave it to me :( the tragedy of the day. Anyhow, my heart is singing now because I got Dan Brown’s Inferno which just came out today!
