The journey started when I boarded a MH004 flight to London on 5th October 2005, the flight took 13 hours and arrived at London in the evening of the same date.
6-10-2005
Sightseeing in London, which is generally a revisit for me since 4 years ago, nothing much changes.. yet still interesting
7-10-2005
Joined a day tour to Lacock, Bath and Stonehenge
8-10-2005
Stayed home packing, ready for the 19 days Europe tour
9-10-2005
Leaving London by coach, from Dover crossed over the straits by ferry to Calais, France. Reached Paris by 4pm and visited Notre Dame and joined the night Sienne Cruise tour, with an amazingly spectacular view on Eiffel.
10-10-2005
Paris ~ Eiffel, Montmartre, Lourve and a cabaret show.
11-10-2005
Visited the outrageously lucrarious Versaille in the morning and headed for Lyon, passed by some pretty vineyards
Lyon was merely a stop, headed to Nice in the early morning, stopped by the Avignon for lunch and stopped by Cannes also before arriving at Nice.
13-10-2005
Visited Le Chateau for the panoramic view of the city and sea during the morning, after lunch visited the beautiful town of St. Paul de Vince and went on a bus tour along French Riveira.
14-10-2005
Started the day early leaving Nice to Pisa, Italy for the leaning tower, then headed to Florence and managed a brief sightseeing.
15-10-2005
The highlight of Florence is the masterpiece of Michaelangelo, the sculpture of David. After some strolling, continued our journey to Rome. Arrived for dinner and visited the famous Trevi Fountain.
16-10-2005
Visited the great ruins of Osca Antica in the morning, then a sightseeing in Rome, a visit to Rome would not be completed without the Colloseum of course.
17-10-2005
Waked up early for Vatican City for the amazing Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica, then a long trip to Venezia.
18-10-2005
Venezia is where Venice located, there were no specific highlights for Venice, but the whole feeling and experince in Venice was simply awesome.
19-10-2005
A trip from Venezia to Vienna, Austria.. which took almost on whole day.
20-10-2005
Visited the spectacular Schönbrunn Palace and strolled along the Ring Boulevard for the amazing achitectures.
21-10-2005
Headed for a short stay at Salzburg, the town of Mozart before heading to Innsbruck (which I never heard before that) which suprisingly impressed with it’s amazing mountain view.
22-10-2005
A short sightseeing at Innsbruck before arriving at Liechtenstein for lunch, and reached Lucern, Switzerland for a wonderful cruise tour around the lake.
23-10-2005
Went up Mt. Pilatus hoping for snow, too bad only got rain and some mini snowflakes.. probably the coolest weather I’ve ever experienced.
24-10-2005
Left Lucern for the famous university city of Heidelberg, Germany, passed by blackforest and visited the famous Rhine fall before arriving Heidelberg.
Left Heidelberg, enjoy a Rhine Cruise and had lunch at Cologne before heading to Amsterdam. Visited Volendam and a cheese + clog manufacturer before spending the night at Amsterdam.
26-10-2005
Visited a diamond factory and siteseeing at Amsterdam, including a cruise tour and a walk at China Town and the famous Red Light District.
27-10-2005
End of the tour, going back to Calais and Dover to London..
29-10-2005
Visited the local London at Camden market and spent a long afternoon at British Museum, Japanese dinner near China Town.
31-10-2005
Another day in London, hopped on to London Eye for a birdview of London.. London is really huge I must say, the border was not reachable with normal eyesight.
2-11-2005
MH003 flight, 1050am London time.. arrival at Malaysia 715am on 3-11-2005
I missed my holiday and my tour mates
.. again thanks sis
(edited 25 December)
November 8th, 2005 at 2:58 am
[...] I had some chats with my Australian tour mates during my Europe trip just weeks ago, asking what they knew about Malaysia, most feedbacks are ‘KLCC’ and counterfeit products (fake watches, bags, goodies and CDs) at ’some streets’.. the counterfeit products were meant as jokes but it just showed how much the our copyright infringement problem is potraited around the globe. [...]
December 27th, 2005 at 2:31 pm
[...] 18) COOLEST PERSON YOU MET THIS YEAR: Leslie, a grandma I met during my October Europe trip [...]