European Jewels Day 4 Part 1

It has been awhile since my last post about my Europe trip.

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Thanks TP for recommending this program to me.

Ok, now let's continue with my European Jewels trip.

It's day 4 and from Munich, we are heading to Innsbruck, the capital of the Tyrol, Austria followed by Venice, Italy.

Day 4

Munich, Germany --> Innsbruck, Austria --> Venice, Italy

I mentioned in the previous post that the breakfast we had on day 4 (at Tryp Munich Hotel) was the best and tastiest throughout the trip. Show your the photo now :)

We have a great variety of food, especially warm food (compared to other hotels which only served breads, croissants, cold ham, fruits and cereals).

Here, we have different type of sausages, ham, scramble egg, potatoes and etc.

I think they have different types of breads and croissants too but sorry, I am not not going to eat these giving that I can opt for warm and delicious meat :p

Too bad we didn't have much time to savour the breakfast coz as usual, we have to catch up with the tight schedule. It was 5.47am when I took my breakfast :s

Then, it's time to board the coach and lay my butt on the seat for hours again.

The buildings @ Munich.

6.35am

Scenery along the journey.

7.04am

Look at the snow covered on top of the mountain.

8.17am

8.29am

We are at the town of Innsbruck, Austria now.

8.30am

8.35am

It's a beautiful town with mountains around.

Snow starts covering the top of the mountain.

If I were here few weeks later, I would be having fun with snow!

The buildings @ Innsbruck

Note the 'thing' hanging from the wall.

Every shop has a different one.

It's unique.

Swarovski @ Innsbruck

This is the original retail shop.

As expected, lots of crystals in the shop.

More crystal.

And more.

It just makes you want to buy some crystals here, since you are surrounded by crystals.

Even the hanger knob on the door in the wash room is made of crystals.

Neh, the hanger knob that you use to hang your hand bag when you want to pee.

The 'thing' for Swarovski shop.

This is just one of the pretty crystal dog among the others.

Despite being surrounded by lots of beautiful crystal, I only spent Euro 9.50 for a pair of Swarovski crystal earring. That's the cheapest thing that I like which I considered affordable :)

Enough for crystal, let's explore abit this beautiful little town by the mountain.

See the mountain is so near.

What a nice picturesque town.

More buildings.

9.45am

Look at the seat cushion, so colourful.

Must be very happy sitting on it :p

It's 9.50am.

Time to leave and continue our journey for the day.

Bye bye Innsbruck.

Now, we are going to drive over the Brenner Pass to Italy.

Stunning Dolomites' alpine scenery coming on our way...

To be continue...

European Jewels - Day 3 - Part 2

Continue from previous entry, this is Part 2 of Day 3 in our European Jewels trip.

P/S: Have been keeping this draft for over a month. Now only I finished it :p

So now, we are in Rothenburg, a picturesque town before we head to Munich.
Nice huh the building. So cheerful looking, I like it :)


A cafe.
Like those plants outside the windows.
So lively!


A very nice shop.
Straight away attracted our attention.


See see see, so nice!!!
All these are made of food, I supposed hand-made too.
Small but very detailed.


So cute!!!
I couldn't buy them, not even one, it's very expensive :(
One cost 10-20 euro if I didn't remember wrongly.


So pretty!!!
How could you not like them?


I like their building.
So nice and the 'thing' (what is it called?) attached on the wall is so unique.


The local delicacy - Snowballs.


The snow ball. We 'tapao' and curi makan in the bus.
The tour leader actually don't allow us to eat and drink in the bus.
Ridiculous right?
We spent most of the time travelling in the bus and she said we can't eat in the bus according to company's policy?
What are we suppose to do in the bus when we are hungry and bored?
By the way, we are not small kids, we are not going to mess up and dirty your bus ok!!!


This is cute.
They set up this to welcome people along the way?


Scenery along the way to Munich.


The train system in Munich.


Oh piggy!!
After dinner, my mum and I actually climbed up to its back and take photo Muahaha


Our yummy pork chop.
The black black dish beside is actually some kind of marinated purple cabbage.


The front view of the reataurant.
Not sure whether it's consider nice but at least we did savor the famour German pork dish :p


My image for Munich.
Dark dark and dark.
We don't have the chance for a second look.
We headed to Innsbruck early morning the next day.


A very nice WC, pay 1.10 euro and you can use it lor!


The main train station.
Hauptbahnhof or Marienplatz??
Forgot liao :p


Our hotel for the night.
Tryp Munich.
The room might not consider as nice but the breakfast that we had in the hotel the next morning was the best throughout this trip.
Yummy ;)
Show you the photo in the next entry.



To be continued...
Day 4 Part 1...

European Jewels - Day 3 - Part 1

14.10.2007
Sunday

Rhineland -> Romantic Road -> Munich

We were in the land of Germany the whole day :)

This were the hotel that we stayed for a night.
Note my "sleepy-half-awake" look.
Excuse me, it was 7am when I took this picture.
Imagine how early we have to wake up to prepare ourselves, pack our luggage coz we are not going to come back here and take our breakfast.


Ok we did choose to wake up a little bit early so that we could have some time to admire the scenery around the hotel. When we arrived last night, it was all dark outside the hotel.
According to the tour guide, this little hotel is in this little town just beside the Rhine river.
This morning, finally we can walk around.
The weather was chilly.

Look of the day.


We paid extra 20 Euro to join the 'Lorelei and Its Castles' cruise along the Rhine River.
It was 8.17am, the sun is not out yet.
The sky was gloomy and look how misty the river was.
I was shivering (yet I still love to pose and snap picture :p)


Continuely gloomy and misty.
Where are all the castles?
The heavy fog blocked the castles.


Finally the sun came out.
It was 9.20am now.
First glimpse of the first ever castle that we managed to see.


Second castle that we saw.


Castle up up on the hill.

Elek...That's it, no more castle liao...

Now is the turn for vineyards.


So nice hor to have a house here.

You see, according to this postcard, there should be this amount of castles along the Rhine river.
We saw two only.

A very nice rest area along the motorway. We are going to have our lunch here.
Nice restaurant and high-tech washroom too (you shall know why later...)

Mum and I always share one portion of food + a soup or side dish. Two portion will be too much for us. We save quite some money for food you know ;)

Our lunch of the day.


Neh this toilet bowl in this high-tech washroom hor, the seat is turned automatically for one round and it is washed before you use it.

P/S: I actually purposely paid to come into this wash room to have a look of this high-tech toilet bowl, but then hor I was damn 'unlucky', I went into one that was not functioning. I kept wondering 'very high-tech meh? Nothing special mar, the seat is not moving also'. Then I asked my mum about it and she said:" Aiyo yours not moving ah, come come come into mine, I show you." So, two of us went into the same washroom and my mum demostrated to me :p

To be continued...