Posts Tagged ‘Europe 2010’
Kuala Lumpur
Late night curry after clubbing
Okay. KL. What to do but eat? :) (oh or watch Rish eat when it gets too much for me!)
(Fittingly publishing this on Rish’s birthday! Happy Birthday dear! xx)
Berlin
Schwiney! The reason Germany beat Australia 4-0 in the World Cup. A pig in a German lei
I was very happy to arrive in Berlin on June 12. Two reasons – one, I got to be with Rish after a week apart, and two it’s freaking BERLIN. How cool is that???
Hauptbahnhof
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Hamburg
Looking out to sea
Okay, I’ll come out and say it now: I didn’t eat any Hamburgers in Hamburg. Feel free to leave now, if that’s what you were here for (or go look at the one I ate in Cologne the day before I went to Hamburg).
I’m going to just straight to my accommodation at Hotel Bremer Hof, a short walk from the Haptbahnhof, in the dodgy direction ;) My single room was € 40.00 per night for a single room with bathroom. No breakfast, but there was free wi-fi! :)
Orange! So very Orange!
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Cologne
After a train trip along the Rhine, I arrived in a drizzly Cologne, for the first time having to find my own way to the hotel without Rish’s help :) Fortunately, Cologne is extremely well signposted for tourists, and I knew I had to get to Neumarkt and Rudolfplatz to find Hotel Flandrischer Hof, which I’d booked for 105 Euro for 3 nights through bahn.de…
Gummi on the pillow each morning won me over – you can buy these at Aldi here!
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Frankfurt
It seems I was in Frankfurt on June 5… I’m getting there, I swear!! Frankfurt is manageable… I was only there 24hours!
Arrived in Frankfurt from Vienna on a morning flight, trained to the city and checked into a cheap hotel. Rish went for a nap, and I went for a walk…
The giant Euro is probably my strongest memory of Frankfurt, but let’s see what else comes flooding back as I look at my photos! It IS pretty impressive, though. In a nerdy way…
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Prague
Following Vienna, we went to Prague for a few days, based on recommendations of drunken backpackers “You HAVE to go to Prague!!11!!!!111!”, is what they said over beer.
Really awesome mural!
Vienna
Ahh Vienna. Rish and I flew there straight from Frankfurt. We’d originally planned to spend time there with friends, but bag snatching and subsequent lack of passport put and end to that :(
We got some cheap flights to Vienna with Niki – a discount airline, where the hostesses wore pink hats and grey blazers, with skinny jeans and flats. Too cute! Read the rest of this entry »
Malaysia Airlines Sydney-KL-Frankfurt
Didya hear? I uploaded all my holiday photos to Flickr. Woo! Now, you can either be a keen bean and head straight on over there, or wait for the piece by piece installments that will filter through over the coming however long. I’ve decided to go city by city, but will give you the first post about a place I spent over two days – on Malaysia Airlines planes.
MH122 Sydney-KL June 28
Not the best trip – quite a full plane, and the IFE system for the block of seats we were in was screwy (cutting in and out, some buttons not working for Rish so no TETRIS). But they got the food right. For me, that meant they actually had Vegan food where promised. I care not so much about the meat side, I order vegan (VGML) for the lack of dairy and generally low-fat nature of it.
Dinner SYD-KUL. Generic overcooked veges, a pasta salad, fruit for dessert.
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Hit the ground running
So I’ve been back in Australia for all of 60 hours, have already completed 2 full days of work, updated wordpress, uploaded a bunch of photos to flickr, started a job application because they advertised while I was away – the applications end next week, so I’ve time, and started working on a presentation for Saturday. No, no time to tiredness or jetlag. Not for me.
*breathes*
You will get “Europe” blog posts in time. In the meantime, photos are gradually heading to this Flickr set, and here is a freaky citrus fruit from Vienna to tide you over ;)
Cool Little Things
Gummi bears on my pillow at my hotel in Cologne!
Having a good time over here, despite tiredness and a case of food poisoning (?from lunch meats or Chinese in Frankfurt). Kicking along. Walking a lot. Having fun, and taking oodles of photos.
(I saw a tub of red yellow and black gummi bears for Germany world cup and almost bought them for my friend Phil. Think he’d be happy with a couple of packs of pillow gummi bears instead?)
(The Flickr photo set will keep growing as I get reliable interwebs. Enjoy!)
