Bidadari Hati

Friday, October 08, 2004

the one with badrul backpacking around europe...

aarrrrgghhhhh!!! tension nyer… hahahah… waahh, mesti ramai yang terkejut kan… bukak ayat jer terus menjerit… well, sebenarnya i bengang sikit sebab beratus-ratus gambar trip to europe hilang begitu sajer bila my laptop crashed last year… ‘sapa suruh tak buat back-up?’ I’m sure most of you were asking the same question… masalahnya, dah back-up dalam external hard disc… yang tuh pun kena virus gak bila my lop kena virus… anyway, tak guna sedih lagih dan nasib baik banyak jugak gambar yang dah print…

well, sebab nak letak sebanyak mungkin gambar, so tak maulah story mory panjang sangat kan… but, just a little background, plan I dengan shonny mula-mula tuh just nak pergi tengok pyramids, tapi entah macam mana, ia berkembang ke stonehenge, lepas tuh, ke europe.. konon-konon nak buat ‘the seven wonders of the world’ lah…hahahahaa… takpalah, dah lama giler tak berjalan, so, I grabbed the opportunity to visit seberapa banyak negara as possible… pergi masa winter pulak tuh… gian nak main salji… hahahaa…

london…

I don’t know if we started off our journey with the wrong foot or what, tapi masa transit kat Singapore lagih, we lost our winter jackets… wuuaagghhh…. Mahal pulak tuh beli… tapi nak buat macam mana kan, dah takda rezeki… puas jugak lah tried to convince shonny, that it was not a bad sign…


the royal guard at buckingham palace...

sampai airport kat london, seeejuuukkkknnyyerrr… both of us without winter jackets… di london, we were staying with shonny’s friend at golders green… shonny belikan gap winter jacket (rm400) ringgit… gantikan yang hilang…


buckingham palace, london...

macam biasa, kalau datang london nih, mesti buckingham palace kan… hahahaha… pastu jalan-jalan window shopping…. perhhhh… semuanya mahal… masuk harrods beli coklat jer… hahahaha… tu pun makan sikit-sikit, sebab mahal giler… pergi greenwich, pergi soho (ehem), pergi rata-rata lah, including stonehenge… sejuknya, tuhan saja yang tahu…


stonehenge... sejuk gilerrrr...


waiting for the trainm (tube) in london...

rotterdam / amsterdam…

how was rotterdam masuk plak? hahahahaa… memang lawak ceriternya… dari London, kita naik train to brussels and patutnya tukar train kat sana nak ker amsterdam… so dalam kelam kabut tuh (pendek kan ceriter lah nih) train tuh sampai ker rotterdam… mati-mati ingat amsterdam.. hahahaa.. maklumlah, dah lewat malam sampai sana (about 9.00pm during winter)… walaupun rasa weird jer, sebab selalu dengar orang ceriter, keluar jer train station kat amsterdam, terus jumpa sex museum… hahahahaa… nak tak nak, bermalam jugaklah di rotterdam…


in rotterdam...


inside a tram in amsterdam...

paris…

from amsterdam, naik train gak, terus pergi paris… masa nih dah dekat nak raya dah… sayu giler dalam hati… seperti biasa, jadik tourist kan… pergi notre dame and of course lah eiffel tower… masa hari raya, menangis teresak-esak… pastu untuk ‘makan raya’, pergi makan nasi kat restoran cina… lauk telur dadar and some vegetable soup… sob… sob… sob…


eiffel tower, paris...

lucerne…

sekali lagi berlaku misunderstanding… hahahahaa… patutnya kita naik train ke lucerne, switzerland, tapi entah macam mana, pergi ke luasanne… hahahahahhaa… nasib baik orang kat train station kat luasanne tuh friendly giler, terus jer dapat naik another train to lucerne…


on top of mount rigis, switzerland...


bukan selalu jumpa snow kan... really beautiful...

venice…

sampai kat venice, pening jugaklah nak carik hotel sebab jalan-jalan darat dia tuh kecik giler… more like lorong lah… mula-mula tuh berangan jugak nak naik gondola, tapi bila dah sampai rm300 ringgit, baik balik malaysia naik sampan… hahahaa… so, kita orang naik water bus jer lah.. hahahaha… to me, venice is a very romantic place to be…


gondolas in venice... too expensive...

pisa…

masa nih, I think orang italy semua nih ada yang nak sibuk balik kampung dah sebab masa naik train from venice to pisa tuh, pack giler train… we have to stand for about 2 hours… dengan tourist yang back-packing besar-besar (including us)… but the good news was, masa kita sampai kat pisa tuh, first time it was open to the public lepas lama tutup untuk baik-pulih… so kita antara orang yang bertuahlah to be antara the first people yang naik sampai ke atas…


leaning tower of pisa... (not pisang yek)

rome…

we reached rome on christmas eve… so, kelam kabut jugaklah nak carik hotel… mula-mula tuh, ada one guy beria-ria nak tunjukkan hotel… sceptical jugaklah, but it turns out, dia memang kerja tuh… very efficient yek… siap bawak pergi hotel lagi and tak mintak bayaran pun… we also visited vatican city… the smallest country in the world… macam court tennis jer… hahahahaa…


kat dalam colosseum, rome...

athens…

so sad… I don’t have pictures in my laptop… yang print out ada lah… actually, from rome, we travelled to brindisi, and naik big ship to cross over to athens… we celebrated new year kat Athens… they actually have a big celebration sebab masa tuh duit dia orang kena tukar euro…

cairo…

sampai cairo from athens, we were so tired dah… letih giler… so, we decided, for the first time during this trip, kita pakai tourist guide… quite expensive, but memang dah tak tahan dah… so, with tourist guide, we don’t have to worry about language barrier… our tourist guide nama dia ali, and cakap orang putih macam american… wwaahhh… anyway, banyaklah tempat yang pergi, including naik kuda keliling pyramids…


pyramids of giza, cairo...


one of famous mosque in cairo, egypt...

I would love if you could share your travelling experience(s) with me… that would be cool!!!

~ pictures courtesy of shonny ~