Easily the best trip so far. Probably cos we stayed with really hospitably German hosts, Steffi and Ching-Ping, where every meal was a feast! Oh, and we went about Muenster and a bit of Hamburg too.
First dinner at their fab home. Schnitzel with mash potatoes and salad. Mmm.. lekker!
Breakfast table.
On the second day, we went to the Aa (how original) River because we wanted to witness the love story between two impossible lovers.
A black swan, Petre (formerly known as Peter cos she was mistaken as a male earlier) fell in love with a white plastic swan boat! Petre swims around the swan boat 24/7 mooing and cooing, declaring her undying love, and even follows it if there are visitors pedaling it. Petre refuses to leave it even during winter, so a small bird house was built for her, although she apparently doesn't use it. And the caretakers can't just remove the swan boat cos Petre might just die of sorrow. Aaahhh.. tragic love!
Feeding the rubber duckies before visiting Petre. Steffi was the hottest source of food for them.
Pedal boats after.
Went to the Botanical Gardens after that.
My favourite desert plants. Dunno what its called, but look how cool it is, the way the 'leaves' arrange themselves to form the flowers. Awesome!
Funky doors at a church in Munster.
Second night dinner: chicken rice and chinese style cooked cabbages (by hostees (I guess that's what we're called)) and chocolate cake and papadam by the hosts. Lekker, lekker! (preps + finished output)
Muenster City Festival
Third night dinner: German-style BBQ, pasta (I miss it already!), salad, bread + spread and German beer. Lekker, lekker, lekker!
Host and hostess of the year
Yam-seng!
And to work of the stuff we put in our stomach, we went bowling and played a bit of pool. Yay! I was in 2nd place in bowling, not bad for a non-bowler, heh? The place was dark, so no pictures from my lousy camera.
P = Princess = me
P = President = Yixian
M = Monney = Mun Yee
S = Super Ching = Ching Ping
AM = Ang Moh = Steffi
MS = Mou Shou = Kitty
Saturday: Hamburg (people there are called Hamgurgers. Cool, huh! I wanna be a hamburger too!)
Hamburg was one of the heaviest bombed places in Germany during WW2. This whole cathedral, St. Nicholas, was bombed to smittereens, except for this tower which we went up. If you look carefully, you can see the ruined parts on the walls. Poor Hamburg.
Next stop: Miniature Wonderland, where the world is shrunk to thousands and thousands of times over. Imagine the work and attention to detail, how the 'masters' sculpt every individual in this world!! *faint*
We went to the redlight district after that just to take a look and we saw this cool machine.
Just before leaving for home on Sunday, we visited dear Yimin and KK at Essen but unfortunately, I don't have any pictures with them. Need to get them from the rest.
Germany = Excellent! Signing off! Tschüß (pronounced 'choose' = bye)!!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Belgium (...waffles, mmm!) - Brussels
We went to Belgium on Easter week (6-9/4). Good cos the chocolates were out :D, bad cos most shops were closed :(. First stop, Brussels.
On the train to Brussels Central (yeah, I like bad boys)
Getting lost for more than 1 hour looking for the hostel
A wall at the hostel. Cool, huh!
Graffiti at the tip top of a library building. How THE HELL did the person get up there?!
The park outside the library
Sweet belgian waffle dear, I will never forget the taste of you. Ah, heaven! Oh, how I crave for you! (see me drooling before getting my piece)
Bollywood girls
Travel mates
Dead people on the grass outside the cathedral
One of the restaurant streets. Lots of seafood. We went into one and got bloody conned! Had to pay extra 12Euros! Bloody shit!
Centre of Brussels. Shit loada people. Lots of buildings gilded with gold.
More yummy waffles (which I didn't try coz it was REALLY expensive!) *salivate*
Manneke Pis. Read about this little dude here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis
Flea market where the Belgians sell all types of junk from old keys and locks, cutlery and kitchen ware, old postcards, clothes and animal skin even! Well, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Taken from the top of a carpark building
Tin-tin, the comic character was born in Belgium. Every now and then when we turned a corner, we'd be pleasantly surprised by him...
On the train to Brussels Central (yeah, I like bad boys)
Getting lost for more than 1 hour looking for the hostel
A wall at the hostel. Cool, huh!
Graffiti at the tip top of a library building. How THE HELL did the person get up there?!
The park outside the library
Sweet belgian waffle dear, I will never forget the taste of you. Ah, heaven! Oh, how I crave for you! (see me drooling before getting my piece)
Bollywood girls
Travel mates
Dead people on the grass outside the cathedral
One of the restaurant streets. Lots of seafood. We went into one and got bloody conned! Had to pay extra 12Euros! Bloody shit!
Centre of Brussels. Shit loada people. Lots of buildings gilded with gold.
More yummy waffles (which I didn't try coz it was REALLY expensive!) *salivate*
Manneke Pis. Read about this little dude here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis
Flea market where the Belgians sell all types of junk from old keys and locks, cutlery and kitchen ware, old postcards, clothes and animal skin even! Well, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Taken from the top of a carpark building
Tin-tin, the comic character was born in Belgium. Every now and then when we turned a corner, we'd be pleasantly surprised by him...
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