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I woke up early this morning to get prepared for the Sound of Music Tour. Tour bus picked other girls and me up at around 9am, and it’s so surprising to find that most of the tour members were Americans. The first stop of the tour was Leopoldskron Palace, of which the front exterior was used as the Trapp family home, and the children were boating on the lake and fell into the water. The Venetian room was copied from this palace and used as the ballroom. Next the tour bus drove us to Hellbrunn Palace, which was built in the early 17th century by Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus. The romantic glass pavilion in the movie was reconstructed in this yellow hunting palace, and it’s really nice to recall one of my favourite scenes from the ... read more

I gave up Nymphenburg Palace and took a self-walking tour instead in the morning. With the help of the guide map from my hostel, I started with Karlsplatz, passed the Augustiner Beerhall at Neuhausserstr. and came to Frauenkirche, one of the landmarks and symbols of the Bavarian State Capital. It was constructed from red brick in the late Gothic style and can hold around 20,000 people, which was surprising at the end of the 15th Century because the city only had about 13,000 inhabitants at that time. Standing at the entrance where an attraction, Devil’s Footstep, lied at, none of the side windows could be seen. Other features included the Gothic Nave, several stained-glass windows and the tomb monument of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor at its basement. The church also buried some members of the ... read more

I woke up late and my schedule was delayed for an hour. It was already 10:00 when I arrived at the Concentration Camp Memorial Site in Dachau, one of the earliest concentration camps. It’s good that the entrance is free, so I got myself a site map at the information desk and followed other visitors to the site. “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” (work will set you free) and Perimeter Fence were the first two things that caught into my eyes when I arrived at the gate. Maybe because of the sunny weather, the site wasn’t really dreadful. Passing through the gate, I started with museum on the right the roll-call area. The one-floor museum didn’t look large on the site map, but it is so informative that it could take you more than two hours to finish ... read more

I returned to Five Elements Hostel at 7:00am after a fucking crazy night. I was a bit angry to see my desired bed was engaged and my bedsheet was gone! Damn. Lucky that I still had my deposit back having explained my situation, I was able to get back my deposit for bedsheet and keycard. I had a short breakfast at the hostel, the nI officially started my day-tour in Central Europe. It was Sunday, but still, I was surprised to find almost-empty streets in Frankfurt. i followed my map, passed Eurotower, the headquarter of European Central Bank, and came to Römerberg, the market square of Frankfurt. Man Römer was so beautiful. After that I visited History Museum, where exhibition explanation was in German, before heading to St. Bartholomew's Cathedral/ Kaiserdom. There was a service undergoing, ... read more

Paris is the most beautiful one among the four cities of my 2007 Europe Trip. It worth spending a whole week. York is quiet and nice, but a bit small, so is a great place for a weekend to get away the hustle city life. Manchester? Well, unelss you love studying in urban planning and development as well as architecture, there's nothing to see from the point of view of travel. People there are so nice, though, and the city is not huge so you can slow down your pace a bit while go on enjoying city life. It also has a well-developed transport system, so it's a good place to live in I reckon. It's now my favourite city, and I would definitely move to Manchester if I could in the future. London, as the ... read more