Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Travel on Jun 22nd, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow Vienna was a little disappointing to us, mostly because of the weather (it was pretty much wet the whole time we were there.) Maybe in the back of our mind, we wish to have some classical music soundtrack to accompany us in Vienna, but we didn’t even see any street performers […]
Posted in Travel on Jun 21st, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow Vienna has plenty of museums, palaces, and museums that used to be palaces. There are quite a few museums close to the Imperial Palace in City Center; three of them are actually side-by-side in a complex called Museum Quarter. We visited two out of the three; one is called Leopold Museum, […]
Posted in Travel on Jun 20th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow It is interesting that, unlike other cities in this trip, we found quite a bit to do during evening/night time in Vienna. Top on the list was to watch a show in the opera house. We actually went there twice (because first time we were quite late, even for last minute […]
Posted in Travel on Jun 20th, 2008
www.flickr.com View as slideshow St. Stephan’s Cathedral and the Imperial Palace are the two major attractions in Vienna city center. The Cathedral itself was not that memorable, although it does offer a good view of the city from the top of its tower. The business area between the Cathedral and the Palace is more interesting, […]
Posted in Travel on Jun 19th, 2008
A friend thinks I am crazy, going on a road trip with a couple of people whom I barely knew. But if there is one thing me and my two American friends have in common, it is to see as much Europe as we can while being in another continent. The drive from Holland to […]
Posted in Travel on Apr 9th, 2008
Day Zero:Meridiana “Simply Fly” 9:30pm: Florence Airport This is probably one of the smaller airports in Europe. In fact, I think all departures and arrivals are done in shuttle buses, but at least everything ran smoothly. I had some concerns with the airline I was flying with, the Meridiana, simply because I have never heard […]
Posted in Travel on Apr 5th, 2008
Day One:Tower of London, National Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Trafalgar Square, and Westminster 1am: Hotel – Last Train to the City By the time I got to the hotel, it was almost 1am. My flight from Amsterdam to London got delayed for about an hour, and it took forever to park even when the […]
Posted in Travel on Nov 12th, 2007
www.flickr.com View as slideshow Prague was the first city that we know we want to go for this trip. It ended up being the last place we visited; I guess we save the best for last, and we weren’t disappointed. It was certainly a good change of environment (away from 2 weeks of German speaking […]
Posted in Travel on Nov 8th, 2007
www.flickr.com View as slideshow For whatever reason, there seems to be no general consensus on the English naming of this town area between the castle and the river. I have read books calling this the Lesser Town, the Little Town, the Small Town, the Lesser Quarter, etc. In Czech, it’s called Mala Strana. This is […]
Posted in Travel on Nov 8th, 2007
www.flickr.com View as slideshow “No thank you!” I replied sternly to an middle-aged woman who approached us and offered help. And then I promptly walked away. I’m not sure if Vincent and Naomi remember it when we were there in the Republic Square. I knew I was asking for trouble standing in the middle of […]
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Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light