Sunday, July 30, 2006
i miss italy
i'm past my jet lag but i'm not over italy.
arrived in singapore on july 26th, morning. i joined a travel agent from singapore on an 8-days tour to venice, florence n milan. it's a shopping tour. my mum, her colleague n i departed on the 19th, on the inaugural flight by SIA, direct to milan. it took us around 13hrs to get there. hey, 13hrs on board the flight was very comfortable. this SIA crew who flew there with us, returned home with us too. so we were very well taken care of. i didn't detect any kinda arrogance or biased service from the crew. on the contrary, we chatted like long-time frens.
so the flight's good. but the weather in italy was at a high of 42 degrees celsius. almost baked over there. the air was dry. and that's why i'm down with sore throat now. the stuff there, well, we used euros so everything multiply by 2. i ate a few gelato which i must say, was the best. the fruity flavours were sooooo yummy. till today my mum still misses the melon gelato.
our first stop was venice. however, before we got there, we made a stop at verona n checked out where romeo n juliet lived. there was the statue of juliet n it was believed thatt if ya go up there n touched her breasts, u'll find ur lifelong partner. hahaha.....i didn't toucch of course. dunno how to do this kinda thing.
had some horrible chinese lunch, ya know with this kinda tour, defintely chinese food will be included.
then we took a boat ride to venice. wow...as the boat approached venice, i just snapped n snapped pics...it was picturesque. those postcards i'd seen of venice were jsut like the real thing!!! even tho i was super tired by then plus the scorching heat, i was so taken in by the scenery.
i didn't get onto the gondola. alittle steep the price but also, we didn't ahve enuff time.
florence was our next stop. i loved it the most coz of their architecture n there was actually a square where there were many stalls that sold interesting stuff. once again, we had sooooo little time to shop. we checked out dunno which cathedral but it was lovely. the marble tiles int he church kept the entire place cool. when we stepped in, we thought it was air conditioned. i cna bet with ya that i'll go there n stay for two days.
how can we miss the leaning tower of pisa right? it's just located ont he fringe of florence. we moved ard in a coach n each journey took a minimum of 3hrs to get there. we had wanted to climb up the tower, however, the tickets were all sold out except for those time slots which were too late for us. that was really disappointing. the travel agency didn't inform us on such time slots to get up to the tower. it was this travel agency's first tour to milan. in short, we were the guinea pigs. they did a damn bad job. my mum's colleague called their office from milan on our second last day to complain n she even jotted down all the details in 3 A-4 sized papers n sent it out. it was here that i saw the HK actress, flora chan. my mum asked her if we cld take a pci of her but she said that she cldn't take any while working n if we wanna wait, she'll do so after her work's done. time constraint. no pic.
last stop, milan, the shopping hub of italy. versace, prada, gucci, ferragamo, LV.....i felt so out of place. my mum enjoyed it. i got her a prada bag that left me with half of my salary for this mth. never mind, she liked it. all this shopping could be done in DUomo. there's this huge cathedral which took 600 yrs to construct n i was soooooooo impressed. i had lovely italian food at this small but modern outlet called Iris. kept their business card n if i ever go back there again, i'll patronize that place.
lousy tour, lovely italy. i'lld efintely go back. but i'll head down south to rome, naples n sicily first.
arrived in singapore on july 26th, morning. i joined a travel agent from singapore on an 8-days tour to venice, florence n milan. it's a shopping tour. my mum, her colleague n i departed on the 19th, on the inaugural flight by SIA, direct to milan. it took us around 13hrs to get there. hey, 13hrs on board the flight was very comfortable. this SIA crew who flew there with us, returned home with us too. so we were very well taken care of. i didn't detect any kinda arrogance or biased service from the crew. on the contrary, we chatted like long-time frens.
so the flight's good. but the weather in italy was at a high of 42 degrees celsius. almost baked over there. the air was dry. and that's why i'm down with sore throat now. the stuff there, well, we used euros so everything multiply by 2. i ate a few gelato which i must say, was the best. the fruity flavours were sooooo yummy. till today my mum still misses the melon gelato.
our first stop was venice. however, before we got there, we made a stop at verona n checked out where romeo n juliet lived. there was the statue of juliet n it was believed thatt if ya go up there n touched her breasts, u'll find ur lifelong partner. hahaha.....i didn't toucch of course. dunno how to do this kinda thing.
had some horrible chinese lunch, ya know with this kinda tour, defintely chinese food will be included.
then we took a boat ride to venice. wow...as the boat approached venice, i just snapped n snapped pics...it was picturesque. those postcards i'd seen of venice were jsut like the real thing!!! even tho i was super tired by then plus the scorching heat, i was so taken in by the scenery.
i didn't get onto the gondola. alittle steep the price but also, we didn't ahve enuff time.
florence was our next stop. i loved it the most coz of their architecture n there was actually a square where there were many stalls that sold interesting stuff. once again, we had sooooo little time to shop. we checked out dunno which cathedral but it was lovely. the marble tiles int he church kept the entire place cool. when we stepped in, we thought it was air conditioned. i cna bet with ya that i'll go there n stay for two days.
how can we miss the leaning tower of pisa right? it's just located ont he fringe of florence. we moved ard in a coach n each journey took a minimum of 3hrs to get there. we had wanted to climb up the tower, however, the tickets were all sold out except for those time slots which were too late for us. that was really disappointing. the travel agency didn't inform us on such time slots to get up to the tower. it was this travel agency's first tour to milan. in short, we were the guinea pigs. they did a damn bad job. my mum's colleague called their office from milan on our second last day to complain n she even jotted down all the details in 3 A-4 sized papers n sent it out. it was here that i saw the HK actress, flora chan. my mum asked her if we cld take a pci of her but she said that she cldn't take any while working n if we wanna wait, she'll do so after her work's done. time constraint. no pic.
last stop, milan, the shopping hub of italy. versace, prada, gucci, ferragamo, LV.....i felt so out of place. my mum enjoyed it. i got her a prada bag that left me with half of my salary for this mth. never mind, she liked it. all this shopping could be done in DUomo. there's this huge cathedral which took 600 yrs to construct n i was soooooooo impressed. i had lovely italian food at this small but modern outlet called Iris. kept their business card n if i ever go back there again, i'll patronize that place.
lousy tour, lovely italy. i'lld efintely go back. but i'll head down south to rome, naples n sicily first.
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Man, seems like you missed out a lot due to the lack of time. maybe we can plan the next trip 3.5 years later!!! hahah~ I WILL finally graduate from formal learning institutions, and get ready for honeymoon too.. Kazuyo wanted to tour europe, and so do I. hahah~ Maybe we can arrange more time and do all the great things together. Well, as usual, just drop the invitation to the others, and we just run off ourselves be it they're coming or not. hahaha (man, I'm bad...)
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