The first time out of Singapore, I was not very excited at first, but very happy to be on a plane mainly due to the amount of movies available, however this month's was very lame. So besides the food which I liked and the amount of free drinks, it was quite a 12hour trip to Switzerland. On which my brother got drunk and puked on me slightly after we were reaching the hotel.
Day 1:
We reached Zurich airport where my distant aunt, Aunty Pu, picked us up and drove us to her free apartment just off Basel, across the border into Germany.
At a rest station after the airport.
After which when we reached the apartment it looked like home and I was so tired from Jetlag and drunk people. Slept immediately after bathing!
Day 2:
I woke up to very cold air although it was their summer, it was still cold. Took my time to evaluate the apartment and ate breakfast my father cooked, bathed, changed and waited for Aunty to come get us.
The bed which I slept on in the apartment.
View from outside the window, Rhein Center and Irish Murphys.
The apartment was 200 metres away from Germany on the left, and 200 metres away from France on the right. Very cool.
My Father Cooking Breakfast
Waiting for Aunty Pu.
After which we decided to go to a Vineyard at a small German Village for Lunch. It was very very good and very pleasant, all the serving staff were students working during summer break. I went to the Vineyard belonging to the cafe opposite and took some photos. Due to hang overs and jet lags we went back to the apartment. Me and my mom went down to do some shopping at the outlet malls.
Vineyards on the way to lunch at a small German Village.
The outdoor tables at the lunch cafe.
Vineyard belonging to the cafe.
Just before dinner, my Aunty brought us to Basel (me and my brother) so that we could go to the Fan's Zone to watch soccer with the Fans. Too many people! But thats why its worth it. During half time we went up to a Mc Donalds to get food and watch from the window. Switzerland was losing so people started throwing beer cups and bottles and later on flares.
Soccer at the Fan's Zone at Basel.
Crowd Havoc, view from Mc donalds.
Day 2:
The second day was a drive around day. Aunty Pu drove my family across Switzerland, going to places like Lausanne, Bern, Zurich etc.
View from top of a hill at Bern.
Some trees at the same hill.
At the tourist bear enclosure at Bern. Its real.
View from one bridge to another, Bern.
Along the streets at Bern. Blue Flags belong to UEFA.
Streets, Bern.
Streets, Bern.
Streets, Bern. The Blue Flags belong to Euro 2008.
Clock tower at Bern.
Outside an old fashioned Watch Shop.
View at the top of a hill at Lausanne
In a Church, very beautiful!
Door to the church.
Huge pipe organ at the top of the church.
Church.
Lausanne hero statue. Military statue, can't remember the name.
At the dock, think James Blunt. Facing France Btw.
A hotel at Lausanne.
Charlie Chaplin Memorial, he died here.
A fork in the middle of the lake. France in the horizon.
We had lunch at a gardeny place next to the highway on the way to Bern. Very windy.
Day 3:
So on the third day we picked up Junhong a family friend at Zurich Airport and made our way to Munich. It was quite exciting as we were driving out of Switzerland and to Munich! I mean I see movies and all but I didn't know what to expect here, it felt kinda like a fairytale.
First, we stopped by the famous Rhein River.
My family at the Rhein River Waterfall.
The waterfall itself.
On the way to Munich we stopped by a secluded Vineyard for lunch. Was one of the best meals of the trip. The weather was cool and the sun was up, cloudless sky.
View from where the car was parked.
Aunty Pu and my parents.
The main entrance of the restaurant.
Signboard outside.
The vineyard.
Black and White.
Beer making machine, fermenter.
The fish my mother ordered.
Pasta Junhong ordered.
Veal with Spaghetti me and my brother both ordered.
On the way to Munich we stopped by a rest station which was really nice with a field next to it.
Rest Station View.
Thats me!
My parents. Sponsors of the trip.
Finally reached a village 40km from Munich to stay overnight. Very quiet town, imagine population 369.
Thats me outside our hotel. We stopped near a village 40km from Munich to stay overnight.
The hotel, opened by an award winning chef.
We then went to Munich to look around since it was still pretty early.
Celine Dion KONCERT SIOL.
Stadium.
Stadium.
After which we went to HofBrownHaus to have our dinner, apparently one of the best food places in Munich, a must go, the food was awesome. Marche? Never heard of it. Btw I think I lost some photos of it.
Found it.
Day 4:
We went to the Allianz Arena before checking into our Hotel at the city centre. This Arena is the first soccer stadium I ever stepped into. Damn beautiful, was created for the World Cup Finals. Anyhow, Bayern Munich and Munich 1860 shops were inside.
Yeah in the 1860 Shop.
My family, Allianz Arena behind.
NICE.
Its freaking big.
Brother, Junhong and I.
The Bayern Munich Megastore.
Fan Museum.
Munich. Old buildings buzzing with activity, this is the shopping district.
Dad and Mom.
Hardrock Cafe, dinner and soccer.
HRC, Munich.
Outside a museum.
To be a betterman...
Hitler use to make speeches in the background. Indiana Jones used this place too!
Lunch. CANNOT FINISH. This was the duck, potato dumpling.
More Munich, there were alot of nice buildings, for more photos, come look for me.
People walking dogs, responsibly everywhere.
Walking streets. Thats Junhong.
A Church at the shopping district.
A small arc just before the district.
Day 5:
We went to Neuschwanstein, which means new swan stone, you can read up about it, its supposed to be super romantic, but I think its too disney like. Also we stayed at a German Village at this super classy hotel with damn good food.
We took horses up to the castle, shit machines.
Thats the castle, one of the three that the last prince of Bavaria built, this one on top of a mountain.
Thats the brother. An ad for Coke.
Entrance of the castle.
Brother, Junhong and I. The castles mostly white too, its so called dreamy.
From below the mountain. Castle at the Top Right Corner.
Behind us a lake and a mandarin duck.
Me and my dad. Its clouds behind btw.
This is Hotel Post, damn nice rooms and where I learnt quite a few German words from the TV.
Dinner time, my mother is in a traditional Bavarian outfit, mostly what waiters wear now adays. Some other German tourists.
This is the most. fucking. awesome. dinner. I had in Europe.
Steak! And fish with Pasta. See the plate of Olive Rice? Its AWESOME.
View from me balcony.
Emo Shot. Fog coming down the mountains.
Nighttime in the village, nothing to do.
Day 6:
So we left Germany to head for Innsbruck Austria. We changed our plans and won't be heading for Vienna anymore, instead we were going to Venice and Milan!
Innsbruck.
Swarovski Crystal Factory basement! I bought some earings and necklaces for the girlfriend here!
He he he.
In their super glamorous toilet.
We had lunch here. At the shopping district, many EURO fans around.
Hai, so crowded.
Innsbruck. Fan Zone.
Rest Station on the way to Venice, this was in Italy already.
Rest Station on the way to Venice, this was in Italy already.
Our hotel which we found in the evening, Hotel Poppi! Super classy nice room we got.
Day 7:
Venice Venice Venice, so much I about never been there though. Finally finally I have reached Venice before it sank. Below expectations though, narrow roads and a stench. Only St. Marco's Square was worth it. Plus, it was raining, on the day Wayne Rooney got married. Overall it was enjoyable though, and I even got pushed "chased" out of a shop by a paranoid shop keeper. My parents also went to an Island to look at Murano Glass.
A Church at Venice, we went in, and it was beautiful, couldn't take photos out of respect though.
Gondole or Gondola, as we know it, we rode it later on.
Walking down the streets of Venice, just after the rain.
St. Marco's Square. Indiana Jones, the Italian Job etc etc.
St. Marco's Square.
Ensembles playing at almost every corner there.
Side of St. Marco's Square.
Still St. Marco's.
Outside the Church.
My parents and their Lunch, WAH LAO EH. Should have joined them.
Junhong on a bridge.
Taken while on the Gondola.
Dux.
Gondola's this is where we took ours from, on the way back.
Walking Walking.
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