Posted in Travel on Jul 25th, 2008
When I had my first assignment oversea late last year, I flew to Amsterdam a few times, but I didn’t see much of Amsterdam. Most of the time, I stayed in another small city, a nice college town, about half hour train ride from Amsterdam airport. I guess early on, I thought I would have […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 8th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow The very first thing we decided during planning is destination, which is Prague. Then next thing we figured out is the flights. We figured we can be a little flexible on the dates (that was 4 months ahead) and we knew it should be open-jaw ticket (no point going full cycle […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 8th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow We had an ambitious plan for our first day of the trip, and our execution was pretty good. We arrived Munich airport shortly after 10am as scheduled, found our way to the hotel (which is more or less in between the airport and the city center), checked in, then came back […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 7th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow None of us would have imagined spending more than two hours in a science museum, but that’s what we did on our second day of the trip; we were in the Deutsches Museum for six hours, and if it wasn’t closing for the day, we would probably have stayed longer. It […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 6th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow In our original plan, we were going to visit one science museum and two art museums in one day. The plan would work if none of us have the slightest interest in art and science. It turns out that we had some interest in science, so we had to visit the […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 6th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow During our lunch on the third day, our last day in Munich, Vincent suggested him and Naomi to do some more city tour, as I continue visiting the art museum we were in. (So it took him 3 days to notice this light bulb…) Actually Vincent understands that I was determined […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 5th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow One of our most anticipated attractions on this trip, our plan was to visit the castles on the 4th day, first thing after we departed Munich. That day when we checked out of our Munich hotel, we got ourselves a rental car from Avis. Both the hotel and car rental place […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 3rd, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow The last place we stayed in Germany is in the town of Fussen, just across from the famous Bavarian castles we just visited. In fact, we checked into our hotel in Fuseen before we went to see the castles. Fussen is also just 5km from the Austrian border, so it allows […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 3rd, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow This is one of the first attractions Vincent suggested when we were planning for the road trip. Usually for road trips, I think i usually look for attractions that take just a little bit of time, especially when we have all our luggages in the car. It turned out, for this […]
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Posted in Travel on Jul 2nd, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow On our way to the city of Salzburg, we made a stop at a town called Zell am See, and stayed there overnight. It is not far from Salzburg, in fact it is in the same state, also called Salzburg. This is basically ski country in winter time, hiking for the […]
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