Switzerland

people asked me which is my favourite country throughout this tour. Seriously, I can't make up my mind. But I must say Switzerland is definitely one of my top 3 in the list. It's a very beautiful place which I once thought they only exist in fairytales. GW took like over 1GB of photos there, he loved the place so much he wanted to get buried there when he's dead.

We were pampered with beautiful scenery when travelling in the coach

There have alot of houses built on slopes of greenary

Swiss knife souvenir shop in Lucerne

Town of Lucerne

Town of Lucerne

Town of Lucerne

Souvenir shop - this is the swiss flag not the hospital

chocolate heaven!

chocolate swiss knife, we didnt buy chocolates because scared they will melt under such extreme hot weather.

hehehe.. bought this hairclip

Beautiful view, on the way to our campsite at Lauterbrunnen. We will stay a night and head to Jungfrau mountain the next day, the top of Europe!

if u think this is nice, u will be swept away by the real thing

swiss alps - view from our campsite

there is a waterfall at the campsite

rainbow!

Dinner was Swiss specialty - the cheese fondue! They put wine in the fondue, so it tasted kinda bitter. GW didn't like it. But I love it and I can drink the whole thing! And they say if u accidentally dropped your bread into the fondue, u have to kiss the person sitting on your left.

We need to take a 2hr cog railway to get to Jungfrau mountain. It travels upwards and the wind gets colder as we get higher. This is halfway up the mountain, it's the Kleine Scheidegg station.

When we got to the top, we were super hungry. This is our fellow korean tourmates eating korean cup noodle, they will use the wooden chopsticks to tighten the lid. It's like a norm thing to them, but it's my first time seeing it.

This noodle costs 7 swiss franc. Daylight robbery. We both had 2 servings each, because it's very shiok!

beautiful

We conquered new land!! HAHAHA.. lame

This time, mammoth came with a friend - moh kwai

BFF! Best friends forever

GW buried mammoth in the snow

mammoth on the alps

Look ma! I'm a eskimo!

it's cold when the wind comes

new jacket bought in italy

ice palace

ice palace at jungfrau mountain - top of europe

i find him very cute, always smiling :)

We took a very fast moving elevator to the sphinx, and there's another area of snow used for snow activities... Like snowboarding, skiing, flying fox etc etc



I always wanted to do this! Roll on snow. Then GW challenged me to roll down the snow slope. I not so stupid ok!

Random people skiing

Random china boy

wow! i will bring bee bee here for a stroll too

snowball fight

Beware if u kana my this big snowball u surely go hospital and lie few weeks

GW scold me when I do this, he say it's very dirty.

Golden pillow

Writing a postcard.... and

sending it out from the highest point of Europe. Yes, they have a post office there!!!

Actually it's quite warm on the alps, so those planning to go there can forget about bringing your jacket. But sunglasses is a must, because snow reflects light and is very glaring for your eyes. But i duno why GW didn't use his shades.

lost in london

Arrived at london stansted airport via easyjet. Returned tickets for both of us was ard 600sgd, flying from copenhagen airport. However don't expect much for budget airline, their flights get delays all the time.

London city is well connected by their underground tube service. The place reminds of the movie narnia II, where the kids got sucked into the wall to the land of narnia. I always re-enact this scene for GW when waiting at the platform. It costs 4pounds for a single way ticket, so my advise is to buy the day travel card which cost 5+pounds, and u can have unlimited usage for bus, undergrd tube and railway services. If u are staying for more a day, buy their oyster card (like our EZ-link card in singapore).



When buying the day travelcard, the guy over the counter told me I'm in the wrong city. I didn't get his joke until 5 seconds later... I WAS WEARING THIS TEE bought in paris. HAHAHA!!!

Some palace or museum, not sure cuz we were lost at this point of time

took a shot with the duno-what-palace-or-museum, i like the london eye behind the building

we are still lost, but i know this is some memorial thingy in front of St james park

he looked funny! I imagined my brother wearing this and guarding the gate

london eye

this clock tower is big ben at the parliament house, GW always like to say big ben and jerry

tower bridge. I have to retake this picture many times because the stupid wind keep messing up my hair.

A tourist helped us with this picture

this is at piccadily circus.. Happening like orchard road, alot of tourists

more piccadily circus picture

on a escalator in one of the piccadily circus mall. They have this super big video game arcade which covered 3 levels of the mall

we went to a japanese restaurant for dinner because GW was craving for sushi. london is a expensive place, just check out their plate prices

I wanted to try this kobe beef because I once saw on BBC food channel, it's one of the top 50 things to eat before u die.

omg, 15sgd for such a small and thin slice!!!

moment to remember... actually too small piece, can't really make out the taste also

We spent like only half a day in london because of flight delays and the contiki pre-departure meeting which started at 7pm. Had a nice walk along the Thames river :) Actually I have more crap pictures in london but too lazy to resize all so pick a few to post here. Anyway the buildings/castle/palace/musuems all looked the same and there are no street names for u to check your position in the map. So we often get lost there. It would be great if we have the opportunity to go London again because we didn't have time to visit the british museums (FOC) or check out the changing of the guards yet.

My contiki experience

yes i'm back for a week already... and i have alot of photos to sort out.


We had a good 10 day trip with the Contiki. We met nice tourmates from Korea, Japan, Colombia, Singapore, and the States... But there were also a handful of irritating ones who were inconsiderate, partied every single night and came back in the middle of the night making loads of noise, slamming doors etc. Other than this handful of people, the rest of the tour was perfect.


The tour manager is a very knowledgable lady and gave us "history lessons" whenever we reached the border of a country. It really fascinates me especially this MR ADOLF HILTER guy. I wished I could go back to my secondary school days and retake my History exam (i sucked in history. I missed lazing on the coach and listening to the wake-up song she will play for us when we are reaching our next stop. The song got stuck in my head and GW have to use his hand to cover my mouth in order to stop me from singing for the 625367864162th time.


And also wanna thank my sister for helping me settle my IRAS shitty stuff. I know u went through alot of trouble for this. I will repay you with a LV bag when I come back to Singapore ok.


Peace.