Places and Photographs ( Breather Trip No.1)

me and phoebe spending some vain time alone in the toilet of our ferry, the pride of canterbury leaving uk to france

first of all, i'd like to say thank u all for being part of my life... we may not know each other personally, but i know u have been reading my blog from time to time and u know it's getting interesting :) since i left malaysia, i received alot of envy comments from my friends telling me how lucky i am to be on this trip... i guess i am lucky in a way, but pls dont be envy instead be happy for me please... u must know that i look at this trip more of a life saver for me than a holiday... when they ask what the hell am i doing in europe for so long, i tell them i need a break, a breather... that was it, its not a holiday. this trip is really NOT a holiday. i got some personal issue going on which i need some time and space just to deal with myself, and this is it...

delicious sausage in the ferry

food in europe is definately interesting, u get tastier sausages, beer and even the guys looks so hot! (pls note that there are ugly guys too) i have to admit that during this entire trip, me and phoebe came up with this stupid idea, well its more of my idea haahahaha, we call it the 'scanning'. it means time to cuci mata. so what we do was we will alert each other whenever there's a hot hunk closeby, and we could rate them out of 10 and give a little comment abt his sense of fashion, attractiveness, height, hair and eyes. and sometimes, if that hot hunk has a girlfriend, we would also rate the girlfriend. hahaha it was a lot of fun to be honest.

enjoying the fresh cold breeze, mcm titanic kunun...

everywhere we go, i was blow away with the sceneries. its just hard for me to describe it, this isn't like a food or a man u can easily explain in a few sentence. these sceneries are like God's wonders which you cannot explain in any other way but experience it yourself.

peaceful for a prayer in the first church i visit in europe, this is in belgium


my plan was to visit all the churches in every places i go and send my prayers. my mom said if i pray in a church that i never been before, my prayers are easily heard by the heavens, therefore it reaches God faster. Its funny, its like each church has its angel taking care of it, therefore me being new as a tourist probably got this angel all excited to see me, so this angel quickly take note of my prayers and telling God i came all the way to visit so i deserve a sign or answer for my prayers. well is that how it work? i dont know because 3 days later, one of the thing i prayed for kinda being answered... freaking as it sounds, but i think this is how it work. btw, i prayed for many people which i care about in my life....

lighting up candles in the church


these candles were suppose to be given to our love ones that passed on... i light up a few... for my brother and my grandmother... its quite sad... almost cried in there, but i manage to control my sensitive eyes...

the waffles and pee pee of belgium


apparently tin tin is from belgium too. u know that cartoon with the scottish pet dog. anyways, we were at brussels, it was fun, i ate so much during this trip, i gain a few kgs here n there... i had so much fun. i love the streets, the people, the food... it was amazing!

in the central of amsterdam


my to-do list in amsterdam didn't quite appear the way i wanted it to be. cus we travel in a group and none of them know anything about space cake... and because i am a good girl after all, i cant be bother to pollute these people what is already deadly illegal in malaysia. so i just explain what it does to you and how you can be hung to dead if u are caught with this special... um... special herbs?

the wind is sexy in holland with the windmill



i love this place, i want to live here for the rest of my life! um... maybe just the weekend la since no place to shop ni... there's about 20 windmill altogether at this area where i'm at. its just breath-taking, the wind was just right, it was sunny and cooling at the same time. i just love it, and my boots from next looks so hot in this picture hahahahaha

then we were are luxembourg

luxembourg was just our stop for lunch check point on the way to germany, we didnt really see much here to be honest, our schedule was crazy! not much story here....

checking out a group of hot hunks in munich, germany

ahhh what can i say, there's no place like a place that is filled with handsome looking muscular guys that actually love being starred and stalked at... hahahaha these guys looks like from a football club or something cus we kinda saw their coaches telling them do this do that. its sooooo cute because the guys were waving goodbye at me when they leave, maybe they also think im hot? asians ARE HOT! especially the campur campur ones like meh nyehehehehe :P i tengah nak boost my self-esteem kejap ya....

fresh brew beer in germany

whole my life. WHOLE MY LIFE i hated beer. i just hated the taste of it. it tasted horrible. i dont understand how some of my friends love it or my dad too. it is just so hard to drink. so rough and bitter. BUT - all of these were the opposite when i drank beer in europe. it tasted different! beer in europe was so smooth, not as much gas as u get in malaysia, it was so easy to drink and u get tipsy faster even with one glass of beer. i think the beer we get in malaysia has got too much preservative and gas, and my taste bud just cannot accept it. however, i love beer in europe. love it to the max!

another beer session which was sooo satisfying after a long exhausting trip

with the girls in a restaurant in germany

the icy mt. titlis in switzerland

always wanted to see snow, but it wasn't snowing in switzerland, it was just ais kacang on top of a mountain, literally! i feel blardly cheated! anyways, i couldnt do much, cus i felt like vomitting seing all white for too long. so i went back in and had myself lunch, which was the most expensive lunch... traveling tips: bring ur own lunch to mt. titlis hahaha

that rock was my boyfriend for a while up there lol

this is austria, innbruck

a nice small country with many beautiful things to look at. there's a garden in the city and there was a pond with the princess and the frog. i thought that was so sweet. making this town even more magical than it already is. they even have a big chess set for public to entertain themselves, which clearly in my picture is a bunch of old man playing the chess set... gosh did i jus call them old? i mean senior people... sigh

inside the biggest swarovski shop in the world, which is in austria

gosh i wish i had taken more photos to show u, but i was too busy being mesmerized by all that sparkly little thingy in the shop. the shop was huge and wherever you turn was just bling bling bling!

my favorite spot of all times in rome, just beside the spanish steps

i call it Bella Roma, the beautiful Rome. each time i go to rome, its like coming home again. the locals always says that if we throw a coin into the fountain, we will return again for another visit. it suppose to be magical. something in every little town want to believe or to make something out of nothing. and i always believe in fairy tales, dreams, my weird preminitions and stupid hearings and seeings... i am sensitive to the midde world we're living in, so mind me if i tell you that u have an angel watching you right now and they are talking to me... then again it cud be anything......

his name was tommy, he was the captain of our boat in venice and apparently he fell in love with me and wants me to be with him

ok calm down everyone. seriously.... remember, we are in italy. people here are very very friendly and indeed super friendly. sometimes they are too friendly. which i really like. it makes u want to stay even longer and be in this little world of love dovey in italy. of course i took what he said was just compliment. at the beginning his friend said, "tom must take picture with the star". i was like... the star? that's actually the meaning of my name! it was freaky cus i didnt told them what my name was yet. so it was abit freaky to me... in fact, alot of other freaky things happened along the way of my entire trip... signs after signs... seriously...

enjoying the strange experience on a gondola ride in the gloomy town of venice

i was sitting next to a girl on a gondola... is this normal? i should be with a hot handsome man which i can hold hands with and share saliva transmitting leftovers from breakfast. well, it was still alot of fun sitting on the gondola with my crazy bunch of friends. had a laugh about how handsome our gondolier is compared to our other group of friends hahaha... its true, we had the most good looking gondolier in this town!

one thing about venice you must know. that this is not the most romantic town in the world. dont get fooled by commercials with their fancy words telling you about how beautiful the gondola ride, and how the gondolier would sing as he gondoling you and your sweetheart through the back route of every people's shops and houses because thats the only routes that has water to let the gondoliers do their job. the truth is, venice just looks very gloomy. it looks like venice is having a major heartbreak and been crying for the past few years. it rains so much and its gloomy all the time. it was just the opposite of romantic.

the buildings were filled with these green looking thingy caused by the water. some the places smells because of the water. oh and our handsome gondolier didn't sing to us during our ride. i also realise that these days, they dont really sing anymore. other gondolier brought audio player and played it instead of singing it live too. i guess things has changed. and i came to venice on the wrong time. she's just not feeling happy at all...

this is where the magic begin.. the holy lights, sacred place, blessed holy water in the st. peter's basillica, the vatican city

so happy to come back to this place again.... for many many reasons....

pisa tower and no i didnt do any stupid pose like trying to hold the tower from falling down...

on a ferry ride around paris with the eiffel tower behind me

gosh... such a terrifying day i had in paris... on my previous post, i had mentioned what happened during my visit to eiffel tower. it was crazy. there was a bomb treat and basically i was scared shit. but i was in control and i followed my instincts which is to get to my bus as soon as possible and get the hell out from there.

with master chef in disneyland, france.. hmmm he looks bigger than in tv... im scared... LOL

its weird, i always wanted to visit disneyland. i mean... disney has been part of my life as i was growing up... my favorite character was sleeping beauty. i always want to be kissed in my sleep and waking up to my prince charming eehehehhe.... yea la tu.... mimpi jerr! disneyland in france isnt the best disneyland in the world apparently. i cant remember someone said disneyland in america is better... well i guess so because disney is from an american man whose name was disney and he was the one started drawing mickey mouse...

i had sooooo much fun. i was alone in disneyland. now now, its not sad at all. i actually had a blast. i went on the roller coaster with aerosmith rock music as the background out loud for 5 times! it was amazing! i went on to most of the adult rides and skipped the kiddies rides... duh.... i actually wanted to try the kiddy rides, but it would be funny because the kiddy rides where ALL mommies and their little babies! there are 3 types of crowd in disneyland. first, to the obvious are family crowd, the parents and young spoilt brads wearing princess clothing and boys holding their toys story TOYS. then you get couple... yes alot of them... holding hands, going on rides together and PDA-ing transmitting germs. then last type of crowd is basically me :) the alone group hhahahahahaha...

its sooo funny, cus as i was going on the rides on my own, i keep bumping into this same guy who was going on the rides alone too... hahaha for once i thought he was stalking me, but then the 3rd ride, he wasnt there nemore... phew!

so this is it, my 1st trip with a brief short story of my trip. there are so much more that i want to share... but if i do that, its going to be a very long post. my next breather trip is just around the corner. i am going to ireland :)

until next time

hugs and kisses

stella matilda