http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/xoxogirl44/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from xoxogirl44 en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:11:31 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:11:31 BST You would think that things that would've stayed the same have changed. And some of the things that you think that would've changed have stayed the same.. That's what I thought when I had got back to NY. After a year and half of living in Milan spent about 5 months between Hong Kong and Taiwan to see family with brief stop overs in NY and CA it was finally time to come home. I think I ha http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/blog-293787.html My friend Vanessa used to talk about all the time about how often she goes to zurich. my friend tanya and i were fascinated and were curious to go neither of us having been in switzerland. we were quite lucky b.c vanessa's dad works for the train system in switzerland so we were able to get some discounted tickets to go to zurich. vanessa invited us to stay over her house in chiasso and we http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-East/Z-rich/blog-275298.html Sto morendo dalla voglia di andare a Londra.. That's what I said to my italian room mate I'm dying to go to London.. Ok in all honesty I was studying abroad in Italy and my student visa was about to expire and I wanted to stay longer. For some reason my school wouldn't let me extend my program. So I had to find another way out. I had asked at the american consulate in Milan and they sa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-273830.html my dad had asked me what i wanted to do together on his days off during my stay in hong kong. i came to realize that in the many times that i've been to hong kong in my life i have never been to ocean park. hong kong has 2 theme parks ocean park and the new disneyland. needless to say that i wasn't going to pick the latter. i saw some awesome things at ocean park even though for the mos http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Hong-Kong-Island/blog-272434.html Camogli is an extremely beautiful place. Perhaps 1 of the most beautiful that i've ever seen. in my opinion once you see a beach in italy you fall in love w. the place and u never want to leave. that is unless u detest beaches. italy has a great variety of beaches through out the country with different colors of rocky ones different colors of the water as well as the sand. Liguria is fam http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Liguria/blog-272222.html San francisco is 1 of my favorite places in the US. I had gone to SF for a weekend with my parents for none of us had really been there before. except for my dad who had passed through many years ago when he was a teenager it is so BEAUTIFUL. Not all the cities in the world have a great combination of being urban but yet so close to great nature. There are several beautiful beaches in and http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-272203.html i'm in hong kong now i'm so excited.. it's a bit strange b.c everything has changed since I last came here 3 years ago.. I did some fab things since I've been here.. i always make a point to stop at The Peak b.c it never ceases to fascinate me.. The Peak is an observation deck where you can see most of the city skyline atop 1 of the highest mountains on HK island It's a popular touri http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-272151.html April 28th 2008Wong Tai Sin TempleHong Kong really has some fascinating temples monasteries. In the past when I came to Hong Kong it was all about doing the silly popular things going to the Peak to see the city skyline going shopping singing karaoke. Up til now I had never bothered looking into the historical religious side of Hong Kong. There are several temples monasteries that a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-270868.html ..I'll miss you Milano.. I'd been living in Milan for almost year and half and it was time to say goodbye. I had first come to Italy back in 2004 for 3 weeks. I had made stop overs in Como Venice Rome Milan Florence and several smaller cities in tuscany. I was only in Milan for a day.. but who knew that i would come to live here.. It's a bit strange to think how I felt about the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-270452.html ..La Serenissima.. The Most Serene.... Generally speaking Venice is not that serene most of the time completely packed ear to ear with tourists. The only time really when Venice is serene.. is probably at night.. I've been to Venice probably 4xs in my life and I've never been bored of it. so far Italians will recommend that you find a hotel on the mainland in venezia mestre and n http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-269978.html I love vienna.. I didn't think I would but I think it's a very underrated place. I've been fortunate enough to have been to vienna twice the first time was to visit my friend stephanie. I wanted to visit her in austria and vienna seemed like a convenient place to meet up. When we had went we went to go see 2 museums in vienna the kunsthistoriches and the belvedere. the kunsthistoriches http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-269946.html ahh.. taiwan.. taiwan can be an interesting place to visit a place modern but yet rich of chinese culture. i was born in taiwan but i hadn't been back in like 8 years when i was a kid up until HS i visited taiwan hong kong once every 2 years to see family. i wanted to come back and see my relatives and refamiliarize myself with the place i was born. it's a kinda sad feeling when u http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Taipei/blog-269620.html My friend Michelle was in Italy this summer to take a class in florence. She had stopped by in Milan so we met up and I also went to go see her in florence. and in july florence is HOT... i think it was like 3035 degrees celsius. we also wanted to go outlet shopping also in italy everything goes on sale in july. needless to say we were roasting in the tuscan hills where the outlets were. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-269293.html I had asked my friend stephanie if she wanted to take a trip down to Rome. It was a really cool trip b.c i had never spent the night there. i had been to rome 2 years before but only during the day. it was a really cool trip b.c we had spent the day sightseeing and the night at a roman club. we bought tickets for the double decker tour buses for 2 days. unfortunately the 2nd day it RAINE http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-269214.html it's Dec 2007 and i'm about to leave in a couple weeks from Italy. I was living in italy for like a year and half i did the study abroad thing tried the job search thing but it didn't pan out so well. trying to travel as much as possible during my stay in europe usually i tried to go somewhere at least once a month. made some impressive trips so far been to like 4 different countries in eu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-269118.html