The World From My Eyes

8/1/10 The highlight for today was Vatican City. Vatican city is actually a country by itself. Here, we visited the Vatican City Museum, Basilica San Pietro where we went inside the church. We also visited places where the movie Angels and Demons were shot. After that we continue exloring the other parts of Rome namely Piazza del Popolo, Via del Corso the main straight street of Rome, Spanish steps, Fontana di Trevi and Tempio Adriano.  Vatican Museum Some of the exhibitions inside Vatican Museum The architecture inside Vatican Museum Octahedral Court at Vatican Museum A scene that can be found in Angels and Demons Basilica di San Pietro Inside Basilica di San Pietro A place in the movie Angels and Demons where the man burns himself Swiss Army guarding the Basilica Piazza del Popolo heading towards Via del Corso Fontana di Trevi Tempio Adriano Spanish Steps Today we also witnessed two dramas. the first one was on our ...

6/1/10 Rome, what to say about rome. The weather is what we'd expected of Italy coz it was 15 degree on the day we arrived but the people there are cunning. Well, not all of them but that was my first impression. They try to rip you off especially everywhere especially at tourist sites. So whoever dreams of going there, you have to be careful. When we arrived at the airport, we were looking for the shuttle bus to the city as the airport is quite far from the central. Then this one man approached us and ask us couple of questions. We thought that he want to help us but then he took us to a black van which seems like a private shuttle bus. I know at that moment that this was not right as we expected a white bus which says shuttle bus. Now we had to pay double of what we were expected to pay. After we checked in to our hotel, we head out and the hotel personnel asked us to get the 3 day public transport pass as it's easier to get around. He said that all the places are far ...

Aloha..hehe.. I felt like I'm at a wrong place. Currently I'm in Venice, the third stop of our euro trip and third last stop of the trip as well. Venice is totally different to what we expected (except for the lots of water part). We thought that Italy would be a bit warmer it's located south of Europe, but when we reached here, it was snowing. We were totally wrong.  I think throughout this trip we were not that lucky with transportation. The other day, on our way to Gatwick Airport, there was a bit of problem with the bus. Then on our way to Paris, the problem with the train. This time, on our way to the airport at Paris, there's a delay with the train heading to the airport. We took the train near our hotel and we were supposed to change train at Aulnay saus-Bois for the airport train. However, when we reached Aulnay saus-Bois, the airport train was supposed to arrived in 3 minutes, but we waited for nearly 45 minutes before the train arrived. Upon arrival at the ...