Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Books, Computers and Internet, Travel on Sep 23rd, 2009
A few months back, I received an email from some book company in the Bay area, asking for my permission to use a photo I took in Louvre Museum back in 2008. I was told it would be used in an iPhone App. Not having an iPhone, and too cheap to pay for an iPhone […]
Posted in Travel on Sep 22nd, 2009
Surprisingly quite a few of my friends had been to Barcelona. I don’t think it is one of their top European destinations (like Paris or Italy), but it seems to be a good place to start their Mediterranean cruises. And I heard only good things about Barcelona from them, except to watch out for pickpockets […]
Posted in Travel on Nov 24th, 2008
Having been to Belgium, Berlin, and Paris in winter time, I decided to go somewhere a little warmer. So I set my eyes on Spain, both Madrid and Barcelona. One of the coworkers I went to Berlin with a month before had been to Barcelona. So I thought we go to Madrid this time, and […]
Posted in Travel on Sep 17th, 2008
Early on when I was on assignment in Holland, I remember thinking I wanted to explore places in Europe that is somewhat less popular; I thought the chances of me going to those places on my own are pretty slim. So first place I visited outside of Holland was Brussels and Bruges in Belgium (not […]
Posted in Travel on Aug 15th, 2008
For my first weekend trip outside of Netherlands, I thought I should go somewhere close, some place where I can take the train to. It turns out the obvious choice is Brussels in Belgium. I like the idea of going there, since it is not anybody’s top choice of European destination, but I didn’t know […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light