12D9N Europe Trip
Tuesday, January 1, 2013 @ 4:16 AM
We went on a 12D9N Europe trip with Chansbro agency and departed on 18th Dec before coming home again on 29th Dec. It was a great trip and made my last 2wks of Dec meaningful. Whenever U are on a trip, the time seems faster and the time there is 7hrs behind us. End up, see what I'm doing now? Typing away on my lappy when every1 is sleeping cuz the time there is only 8+pm! The 9N hotel there we slept at about 10-11+pm so is still early for me to sleep.
Anyway, here are some pics to share! For more, go to my fb albums.
The Pisa leaning tower!
On the way up the mt.titlis!
Random walk during xmas day as all shops are closed.
Eiffel tower! Something I had wanted to see for long.
On 18th night, we went to airport T1 and had our dinner before our flight depart at 12:30am (local time) There we slept on the 12hrs flight and transfer at Istanbul airport for another 2hrs flight to Rome. By then, we reached there on 19th at about 8-9am (their time) From there, we took our coach to have our first lunch at some chinese resturant opened by the hongkong peeps! Thereafter, we continued our Rome sightseeing with a local guide.
On 20th, we travelled from Rome to Pisa and had fun taking pics with the leaning tower before making our way to Florence where we met another local guide. After which, we had our dinner and returned back to our 2nd hotel for rest.
On 21st, we make our way to Venice where we took the gondola ride! It was quite costly but is pretty cool to ride on it. Seeing how the guys row it with just one paddle along the small stream. Thou the water is a little stinky but overall the ride was amazing! Give it a shot if U go Venice.
On 22nd, we got to our last Italy stop in Milan and we gets to shop more. I got 2 jeans from Zara which cost more cheaper than here and we saw some xmas market (cuz the angmoh celebrates xmas) and is pretty cool as we dun have them in sg.
On 23rd, the day we continued our trip in Switzerland. It was quite a long journey there and we first visited the mt. titlis. It is a snow mountain! Not really cold as imagined but when the snow blows, my tooth hurts but still I had fun taking pics up at the mountian. After that, we went to shop near our hotel and got a tag-heuer watch plus a necklace.
On 24th, a day when we doesn't have to carry our luggage down as we will be staying in the hotel for 2N and we went for an optional tour to jungfrau where almost all went except a pair of honeymoon couple. That's another mountain for sightseeing and is also very pretty. The mountain is 100yrs old as of the time we visited and we had an awesome lunch there before proceeding to interlaken for a short visit.
On 25th, which is the xmas day! All shops were closed so we can only do sight seeing. We did visited Geneva for a while before heading off to our final city in France but due to long driving to Paris, we stop by Dijon and have a night there in their rather cool or not hotel without lift as it is only 2 stories high and we gotta climb up the stairs with our heavy luggages but is a good exercise for me too.
On 26th, the day we headed off to Paris from Dijon and spent our last 2N there with one day sight seeing to my precious Eiffel tower which I had wanted to see for years and 27th was another day of free shopping but we joined the tour to another optional tour in the morning to see the palace which is really pretty!
On 28th, the day I dread of seeing cuz we gotta head to the airport in Paris to catch our evening flight. We had our last hotel breakfast and a last mintue shop at the mall next to our hotel. Thereafter, we head off to the airport at about 1pm on another coach. Another 2-3hrs flight back to Istanbul before changing to the 12hrs flight home and we arrived back at T1 on 29th at about 5+pm.
There, my 12D9N trip ended but I would say that among my 4 tour groups ... this is the best! =)
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