Neway, for this trip I went to 3 countries which is Austria, Slovakia and Hungary for 8 days.... Get to visit the main city in these countries.. It had been a wonderful experience... And the best thing is that I travelled with 11 girls with me being the only guy... lol...among the 11 girls, I only knew one of them.... lol... It was nice knowing these girls.. really funny and nice to hang out with.. Especially the Thai girl who never failed to make ppl laugh... real joker...anyway, here's a little update regarding the trip... First stop,
Slovakia...
I left Leeds early in the morning to meet up with Ying Yi in Notts around 10am before we left for the airport at 1pm to catch our flight in Notts airport.. Bought some sandwich as the low budget airline doesnt provide food.... It took around 2 hours to reach Slovakia from Notts... Since we took an evening flight, we only reached Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia at night... Once we reached there, we hop on a bus and head straight to our hostel... The hostel was a real nice place... Forgotten the name of the hostel though... lol...Since there was 12 of us, we had to split into 2 groups for the rooms... I stayed in the same room with Fiqa, Irene and Su Ying (3 Brunei-ans) and Metika (Miki) and Orn (Minnie) the 2 Thai girls... The first thing we did after we placed our luggage in the room was to hit the streets to look for some food... The only stall which was still opened was a kebab store...
Then the next day, we had McD for breakfast and their Ms Muffins are damn nice coz they have 2 slices of crispy bacon... yummy... how i wished Malaysia could cook it with some bacon.. hahaha.. anyway, we visited an old castle or fort, forgotten the name as well.. lol.. sorry la, i have bad memory about the name of places... lol... There we met up with Kok Hong's couzin and her gang from NOtts.. they travelled to the same places as us but then they stayed in a different place.. dunno any of them... lol... Bratislava is quite a nice place and the stuff there was not too bad... the currency there is quite small...Din get to do much there as we only spent a day there when we left around evening by train to Vienna, the capital of Austria and the place famous for its music... lol..
Here's some pictures took in Bratislava..
the airport...
the hostel room..
Guess what I saw over in Slovakia... a big BATA shop... I din know BATA has a branch overseas... it was quite pricey though...
the entrance of the fort...
The girls... Jenny Ha, Ying Yi, Yi Yun and Irene...
We went to this restaurant recommended by the travel book.. The food wasn't that cheap and not as tasty as I thought it would be...
Some stew dish with their local dumplings... I have to say the dumplings was pretty horrible...
Pork Chop.. was rather dry...
Our bill...
Vienna
Well, that's it for the Bratislava, from there we took a train to Vienna where we spent 3 days there... This is a much nicer city compared to Brastislava.. I managed to visit Mozart's apartment, some cathedrals/churches, the opera house where we watched opera show, a big garden, a funny looking block of apartment and had some good food.... and also an amusement park... We stayed in this youth hostel called Wombat, The Lounge.. This hostel was quite nice with wireless internet connection, a common kitchen with tv and the best thing about this hostel is that it is very convenient to travel around the city as the tram and the train station is just few minutes walk... However, when we first reached Vienna's train station, there's a very strong smell which was quite smelly... We tot one of us stepped on shit but then after walking around, we found that it was the horse's shit as there were plenty of carriage using horse to bring tourists travel around the place... This time we split into 2 groups again in the hostel where there would 8 in one room and 4 in one room.. However, the 4 girls who stayed in one room had an outsider staying in the same room and according to them, this dude managed to did some exercise at nite with some girl.. lol... wonder how the hell did he do it with 4 other strangers in the room..
We visited a big castle with hell lots of compartments where one of the king lived... It's almost the same as the one I visited in Germany... I guess Europe is all about cathedrals and castles... lol... Bought some souvenirs there.. Din want to continue to the art museum section coz I know it will bore the hell out of me.. But then since the rest also din want to enter as none of us knows anything bout all those we went somewhere to grab some food as I was too hungry...
The best part of this trip was the visit to the music museum, Mozart's apartment and the opera... Learnt some history about Mozart, how he became famous and everything.. The opera was not too bad..THe title of the show was La Sonnumbula(if I'm not wrong).. It's a love story about this girl who sleepwalks and got misunderstood for having an affair with an old man.. Everyone has to dress up in formal wear and becoz of this my luggage was so full as I have to include my coat and my leather shoes.. lol.. Since the girls all dressed up in nice dresses and all, while we were waiting for the train, those local people just kept staring at us for no reason... how rude of them..
Too lazy to write more.. let the pictures do the talking... lol...
The room...
The opera house...
The cathedral...
the girls playing with this game where u used the dice to create music... quite cool...
U cna actually hear different kinds of sounds through this cone...
inside the opera house...
Minnie, Irene and I...
the girls and I.. I was standing way back...
Went to the huge palace where they have a showing us how strudels are made...
In the garden...
The girls having their cookies break.. lol.. all with funny expressions...
the funny looking building...
Toilet of modern art with a mini water fountain just outside the entrance...
forgotten the name of this dude but all I know is that he is fucking famous there coz the girls walked everywhere just to look for this golden statue...
this clock actually works...
Had a good dinner in a restaurant nearby on the last day of our trip.. the food wasnt too bad... lol...
we head to Budapest the next day by train... However, i will update about it the next day as this post is rather long and I'm kinda sleepy now.. lol... till then...
cheers..
