Arrived in Durres, Albania, the port was...........basically a flat piece of concrete!!! got through customs and nothing there beside a bunch of cars calling themselves a taxi. So lost, got ripped off and hopped on a taxi to find the bus to Tirana! Once on the bus it was all easy, dropped right off at the train station and I just took the bigest road I saw until I got to the big Scanderbeg Square. kinda walked through and when I thought I was lost, the hostel staff found me and pointed me to the hostel, which was right across the [View Full Entry]

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Sunday, Sara had to pack coz she will be leaving to Australia when I leave for Albania! But, I was a little dizzy still and my eyes start swelling for some stupid reason!! argh.... so, slacked the morning, went to her parents' house, she cooked some pasta and just hea till Mirko came. So, deicded to see Urbino, which accidentally was their University town! So, Mirko drove me there to look around..... haaa...the town was so dead........SOSOSO dead basically, we finished walking in less than an hour! haaa, It was very medieval ...went to the hill on the other side to [View Full Entry]

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So, left Verona and headed out to the train station when I decided to take a train that didnt run that day!!!! ARGH...waited 2.5 hours till I got to Bologna... Bologna is the red city....and ...walking around for 3 hours....it wasnt too visually appealling.... left soon to head to Rimini to meet my CS host, Sara...when the train was an hour late!!! >< Arrived in Rimini and Sara and her friend came to pick me up! They were all so nice!!!! It was her birthday and all night was spent with her friends and lots of pizzas and beer! HAAAAA! Next [View Full Entry]

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Lots of people in Italy can't speak English!.....and I cant understand much from them.... Anyways.. This moring went to the post office to mail stuff.....had two small boxes coz one mask was already in a box.. Walked all the way to the post office and the man saw them and insisted on mailing them in one box! argh. They dont fit in the medium box, so I got the large one, walked all the way back to the hostel, pack as much as I can in and walked all that way back and guess what? That post office ran out of [View Full Entry]

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yesterday spent the whole day travelling to Verona. Checked into a female hostel. Was expecting sth warmer, then a cool bucket of water pour over my head. The lady at the reception was...COLD.. I mean...she did all the reception stuff, but the place seems like a place for people to stay long....so there are signs saying "Tourist not allowed to use Kitchen" and It was freeezing at night and they don't have any blankets.....I jad to double fold my sheets, the bed cover and use my snowbaording jacket, then wear another jacket to sleep to keep warm!!!!!!! >__< Anyways, They dont [View Full Entry]

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Spent a whole day in Europe's 3rd smallest country, Liechtenstein. It's basically an Austria County to begin with, and somehow over the years, gain independence. However, the Money and postal system is same as Switz and the Language is basically, German. The Size of this country is like...less than half of NT in Hong Kong!! but here even less land coz mostly dominated by mountains!! Its more like a small city by the Rhine River Valley.... Anyways, took the bus straight to the capital - Vaduz. They didn't doany border check, They only have a border set with Austria but they [View Full Entry]

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Innsbruck is a very beautiful town with the moutain backdrop. but, that's about it. Maybe coz I didn't get up to the mountains here, which is a pity. It was Sunday, so everything was closed basically. The big sights promoted weren't really big, so.......I guess I dunno this city well enough to say anything. Pretty dull day for me...=! [View Full Entry]

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Left the lakes and arrived in the Tyrol region of Austria! decided to stay near the border of Liechtenstein, in a town called Feldkirch coz the hostel was cheaper! haaaaa! On the train ride there, the sky was beautiful and the mountains and villages were very nice to look at. Then, went through a tunnel for about 5 mins, came back out and FOGFOGFOG! Visibility level became 100metres!!!! OMG.......and the whole evening was glooomy. Anyways, arrived late and everything was closed.....then found out the Night museum tour was tonight! one price for all museums and free bus rides!!! Strolled [View Full Entry]

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I HATE RAINRAINRAINRAINRAINRAIN! ok, not the Korean singer nor the HK popstar... Was just planning to stay in Hallstatt, but since the weather was so bad, decided to go run through two lakes instead. Hallstatt, is this VERY TINY village that is listed in UNESCO....for its beauty? for, I got there, the train station is on the other side of the lake so I had to take a boat across. It was deserted! which was nice and peaceful but the rain really made the scenery not so nice... There are a few churches there, small and cute..haaa! The lake was beautiful, [View Full Entry]

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So, getting advice from my CS host, there is this beautiful lake and moutain area call Königsee.....and its closer from Salzburg than the big cities in Germany, so there I went! Beautiful lake...I didn't expect that many tourist but, oh well. nothing I can do. I started out not too late but still didn't really haev much time so I did the LAZY tour.... First hopped on to the boat across the lake, to Salet, where you walk a little bit to this broken off lake called Obersee.... BEAUITFUL!!!!!!! OMG...the water was clear and still!!! just like a mirror!!!!! really 'sui [View Full Entry]

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