London bridge is falling down....

Got back from london on sunday. The weather sucked cos it was raining the whole saturday.

Spoiled the mood and pictures.

All the pictures were so gloomy and dark.

Damn depressing.

Thats what i always tell people.

The worst thing was we gotta take the underground (no car!).

Then walk.

Plus the cold.

P-E-R-F-E-C-T! =="

See what i mean?! *sigh*

All bundled up with hood and umbrella hidden behind us.

You can see people with umbrellas behind us.

The next day, it was bright and sunny.

Good weather but a tad bit too late.

Ishhh....

Though i complained bout the weather but i did manage to do some shopping. *whistling*

Speaking of shopping, did u guys checked the currency?

Pound dropped like hell!

rm5.60 = 1pd!!!!!

GOOD FOR ME!

But bad for those working and wanna bring the money home. hehe..

Let's hope it continues. *grinning like an idiot*

Prague

I actually wrote this post sometime ago but i got stucked halfway so i just saved it.. haha..
Procrastinate AGAIN!!

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I am suddenly in the mood to blog so i might as well just continue my easter trip's post.. 
I know i know.. Its old story now but i promised to do so..so here goes..
WARNING!! A long post ahead..More like lotsa picture ahead..

Continuing from the Budapest post, we had to take a 7-hours train to Prague. Lucky us, there's a group of people from Columbia University sitting around us so we chatted a little with them during the journey.

View from the train

When we reach Czech, we suddenly felt that it was colder than before and Alicia pointed out that it was snowing outside.
The first thought that came to our mind was "Die man!! We only have a thin coat/jacket as well as clothes."
Why must the weather forecast be so accurate at times like this?? *sweat*

By the time we reached Prague, it was already half past 8.
We were asking around the people in the station for the way to our hotel and there was this guy, a tourguide, who scared the hell out of us..
He kept saying that the place where we were staying is dangerous and stuff.

We were staying in Praha3 and all the sightseeings were in Praha1. So if anyone of you are thinking of going to Prague, remember to choose accommodation that is in Praha1. You have to take the underground and tram to Praha1 from Praha3. I didn't know that when i booked it back then.

Anyway, back to the story, he kept promoting his hotel to a point where i juststop listening to him. Its so obvious that he's promoting his hotel.
We managed to know the way from a money-changer and told him what the tourguide said. He said that its not as scary as he said. Praha3 is actually kinda safe. Stupid tourguide trying to con us. Ishhh..

After checking in the hotel, we called it a night as both were tired from the long journey.

The following day, we went sightseeing, of course.


The metro station

It was kinda chilly that day and it started to snow when we reached the station to Prague Castle. Luckily it stopped when we reached the Castle.


St. Vitus Cathedral

My photos doesn't do justice to the magnificent view of the cathedral. What to do. No money to invest in those professional camera ma.

The view inside

Loreta

It started to snow again when we reached the Loreta. Thats the weather for the whole day. It snowed then stopped then snowed again. We asked the local people whether its always this cold during this time of the year and they say no. They said its not normal to snow in March. wth!!

Since it was so cold, we frequently went into random shops to keep ourselves warm and yeah, that includes desserts shops. *sigh*

Random statues and performers along Charles Bridge aka Karluv Most
   

View of Charles Bridge and Prague Castle from the Tower             


Astronomical Clock


The Church of Our Lady before Tyn which looked so much like a haunted house

Easter Market
   

Delicious food from the market

We then had our dinner at a small restaurant that served Czech's food. The environment is alright except its kinda dark inside.

The street at night

The restaurant

The next day, we went sightseeing again. What else?! 

The weird looking building 

After that, its *drumroll* SHOPPING of course!! LOL!!
The MNG's store was damn nice ok. The nicest MNG's outlet that i had seen so far.


Wenceslas Square with the National Museum at the end

                        The old town night view                                           View of Prague Castle on Charles Bridge


Post Office

Even the post office is nicer ok. Unlike those typical-boring-post-office where we see everywhere.
The underground too. Seriously, everything there are just so nice. 
   

The metro

For our final day in Prague, we just wandered around aimlessly as we had already went to all the places that we want to.
Our train to Krakow was at 9.24pm.
We went to the same place again and kept stalking visiting LV. I would say its more like price comparison.
The branded there are much more expensive than UK. hmmm...

When we came out of a shop, we saw the cutest doggies ever. Its SUPER-DUPER-CUTE!!!
Looks like mini lions. *chuckle*
But the owner was unfriendly. We stopped her and asked for permission to take photo with the dogs and she didn't even answer us. Just stopped while showing an unhappy face.
How can such cute doggies have such owner. 

The Chow Chows


This is the first time i saw something like cannabis vodka.
This is surely illegal in Malaysia 'cos i never seen it before. wtf...
They even have absinthe where its a very strong alcohol. They have it up to 80% ABV.
So those who claimed that they never got drunk before, you can give this a try.
  


Interesting museum but we didn't enter because we need to pay, obviously.
Since we have so much time left, we paid a little visit to some *cough* dessert *cough* store again. 


Nice window huh?!

We saw a restaurant that served the set meal at a reasonable price so we decided to have our dinner there.



Ally ordered the set meal above and we shared it between us.
The set is actually for one person.
Like who the hell can finish it alone right?! 
Not even me ok. (I know what you guys are thinking so i make it clear first) 

After dinner, we went back to the hotel to get our luggage and then to the train station.
We then bid farewell to Prague and off to Krakow.

Budapest

Yay!! Finally, updates on my easter trip. I'll just blog about Budapest first and continue the others some other time. If not, this will be a SUPER long post. 

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I was in Nottingham the day before we’re off to Budapest. It was to avoid me almost missing my flight again. Bad memoryI must say. 

Long story short, i stayed the night at their (read: Alicia and YaoYing) place. Its been so long since me and YY were sleeping in the same room. That sounded so wrong. haha.. Well, we used to be roommate back in Semenyih so that explain everything. How nostalgic.

The next day we went to have lunch at some chinese restaurant. Then off to the airport which took about 1 hour bus ride. After checking in and everything, we wandered around the duty free stores where I bumped into Xu Yi (a friend from UNiM who's also in Nottingham now). What a coincidence. She was flying to Amsterdam. I think. I dont quite remember where. 

It was because her flight got delayed that we managed to bump into each other. After much talking and walking around, we board the plane. We almost missed it as both of us forgets that we had to board the plane half-an-hour before. T____T

Talk about blur. 

By the time we reach Budapest, its already 7smth. We then look for minibus service that will take us to our hostel. The airport is so nice unlike the typical airport that we see everywhere.

Both of us were busy looking at the map figuring out where our hostel is when out of nowhere a guy came up to us and offered to help. Kind right??

He told us that he’s living there and can help us out. So we showed him the address and he then showed us where it was. Miss Alicia was completely mesmerized by that guy because she can’t stop talking about him for the whole trip. (note: Told you to get his no. tapi tak mau )

Once we checked in and left our luggage in the room, we went food hunting. There was a restaurant that was recommended by the receptionist but by the time we were there, it was closed. So we ended up eating at a restaurant next to our hostel. From the outlook, it looks expensive but the price was actually kinda reasonable.

                                                                                                                    Pasta

Desserts. The cake was so damn delicious ok. One of the best that I had. Speaking of which, the one i had in Nottingham the day before was really good too. 

You’ll notice that the word dessert will be making quite a lot of appearance in my post for the trip. We just can’t stop ourselves from savouring those delicious-looking-nevertheless-tasty-desserts. Talk about diet. Plan is so totally down the drain.

We then went back to the hostel and called it a night. We were so tired BUT we will never guess what’s in store for us the next day. *sweat*

We woke up kinda early the next day as we only have 1 day to look around.

Synagouge

National Museum

Market Hall

The one on the left is a hotel with bath in it. We have to pay to go in the bath. Too bad.

Then came the unexpected event of the day. We were going to this place called Gellert Hill and we had to hike up to the top which was so fucking high ok. Yeah,I know. The name already said that it’s a HILL. BUT it never says anything of it being so HIGH up. The me, who “love” hiking so much, was “ecstatic”. 

So both of us hike up the hill “happily” singing “what a wonderful world”. wtf.. Halfway through, we were huffing and puffing already. We said that others must be thinking “Weird girls. Getting so tired with only this.” I’m serious ok. There was this old couple who looked much more energetic than us. Not to mention, less tired. Wtf?! 

Halfway up

Finally

The view up there is nice though

The way down the hill was not much better than the way up. Damn. Why the hell the sights had to be so scattered??

 

Just to show you guys how far is it from one place to another

Our next destination from Gellert Hill =.="

Royal Castle

Smth to temporarily fill our empty stomach

Fishermen's Bastion

I HEART the parliament. It was so nice.

Alicia kept mixing Chain Bridge and Charles Bridge up because both starts with C.
 

Chain Bridge

St. Stephen's Basilica

Opera

We had dinner at McDonald’s. Can’t help it ok. The McD’s interior was so nice wehh.. I managed to only capture 1 picture because people around were giving me those weird look again. Seriously, its so hard being a tourist. *sigh*

 

We then walked all the way back to the hostel. By the time we reached our room, we were half-dead already. How to survive 6 more days?? Who would had thought the first day had already drained most of our energy. We planned to go back to the restaurant before to have the delicious dessert again but then I fell asleep. So plan remains as plan.

We then did more sightseeing the next morning before going off to Prague. This time by the metro. Yeah, call us spoilt but our legs were tired from the day before.

Heroes' Square

Art Gallery


Metro


US

I just realised that we forgot to take pictures of the train station. Anyway, before we went off, we managed to send postcards at the post office. Remember the postcards i showed before? Alicia suggested that we will send postcard to each other at every places that we visited. Then we can received it when we're back and read what we wrote for each other. I like the idea. I'll definitely do it everytime i travel from now on.