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September 18, 2015
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Day 1
Friday, September 18, 2015
☁️ 15 °C
Altitude: 45 m
New Zealand Freemans Bay -36.848338, 174.7627536°50’54” S 174°45’46” E
Auckland
September 18, 2015 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Left at 9 pm from the flat using Uber, not a bad ride
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Day 2
Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 10:08 AM
⛅ 30 °C
Altitude: 9 m
Singapore Singapore Changi Airport 1.356867, 103.9860531°21’25” N 103°59’10” E
Singapore
September 19, 2015 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Transiting through Singapore airport, 17 hr layover from 7am to 11pm. I've been in Changi airport a fair bit, got lost here when I was 12, lost my passport here at 18. There's going to be a VIP only terminal soon apparently making it four terminals in all.Read more
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Day 3
Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 7:15 AM
⛅ 11 °C
Altitude: 11 m
Denmark Copenhagen Airport 55.628597, 12.64871355°37’43” N 12°38’55” E
Copenhagen
September 20, 2015 in Denmark ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Europe!
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Day 3
Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 10:59 AM
⛅ 14 °C
Altitude: 33 m
Germany Berlin Tegel Airport 52.553455, 13.29168852°33’12” N 13°17’30” E
Berlin Day 1
September 20, 2015 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
And so it begins, arrived, unpacked then went on a walking tour of The Brandenburg gate, the Memorial to the Dead jews of Europe (the name's tragically specific due to the debate around whether the term holocaust is exclusive to Jews or not ), Checkpoint Charlie and the various super impressive squares.Read more
You're supposed to comment on what the pics are of :P -Vel
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You're supposed to comment on what the pics are of :P -Vel
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Gyurme TsenorWifi uploads are slow :(
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Day 4
Monday, September 21, 2015
⛅ 14 °C
Altitude: 47 m
Germany Wilhelmsruh 52.584052, 13.36560552°35’3” N 13°21’56” E
Berlin Day 2
September 21, 2015 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Visited the Sachenhaussen Concentration Camp near the outskirts of Berlin, this was basically the nerve centre of the camp system which prototyped the practices carried out in all the other death/concentration camps , we were walked though the life of an inmate, the ..experimental execution areas, prison and one of the communal messes and welll.....it was a carnival of horror stories really, we ate the sandwiches we brought for the day at the mess and it was a little awkward...Read more
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Day 5
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
☀️ 18 °C
Altitude: 48 m
Germany Wilhelmsruh 52.583988, 13.36555152°35’2” N 13°21’56” E
Berlin Day 3
September 22, 2015 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Took the Red Berlin walking tour which took us along parts of the Berlin wall and the memorials for those who died trying to get over the wall, then went to the museum next to the memorial for the dead jews of Europe , descriptions and records of the families wiped out in the Holocaust and survivor accounts in very starkly lit roomsRead more
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Day 6
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
⛅ 14 °C
Altitude: 48 m
Germany Wilhelmsruh 52.58392, 13.3655152°35’2” N 13°21’56” E
Berlin Day 4
September 23, 2015 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
So after getting all the depressing Cold War and Nazi era stuff out of the way , we went in a walking tour of New Berlin with all the hipster graffiti and African beach bars

We finished the day with visiting the Soviet War Memorial and getting dinner at a typical Berlin restaurant called Max and Moritz.Read more
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Day 7
Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 9:50 PM
🌙 14 °C
Altitude: 48 m
Germany Wilhelmsruh 52.583961, 13.36554352°35’2” N 13°21’56” E
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Berlin Day 5
September 24, 2015 in Germany ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Visited Museum Island today and the Reichstag Parliament building, leaving for Leeuwarden tomorrow, barely made a dent in all the possible things Berlin had to offer but we got the important bits (retroactively updating my blog to for everything in)Read more
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Day 8
Friday, September 25, 2015 at 8:02 PM
🌙 13 °C
Altitude: 251 m
Netherlands Camminghabuursterpolder 53.215591, 5.83522553°12’56” N 5°50’7” E
Leeuwarden Day 1
September 25, 2015 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Took the train from Berlin through to Amsterdam and then to Leeuwarden to stay with Glen's brother Daniel and his partner Anita,
they take their bikes seriously in the Netherlands, there are enormous racks of them near every stationRead more
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Day 10
Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 5:22 PM
⛅ 15 °C
Altitude: 251 m
Netherlands Camminghabuursterpolder 53.215609, 5.83541653°12’56” N 5°50’7” E
Leeuwarden Day 2
September 27, 2015 in the Netherlands ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Days 2 and 3 , walked around Leeuwarden and hung out
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Day 11
Monday, September 28, 2015 at 11:37 PM
🌙 11 °C
Altitude: 3 m
Netherlands De Wallen 52.372523, 4.89962452°22’21” N 4°53’59” E
Amsterdam Day 1
September 28, 2015 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Arrived in Amsterdam, did a walking tour of the city and then went to Anne Frank house ( no pictures allowed and.. backpacks to be worn on your chest )
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Day 12
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 9:36 PM
⛅ 12 °C
Altitude: 2 m
Netherlands Nieuwe Kerk 52.373801, 4.89093552°22’26” N 4°53’27” E
Amsterdam
September 29, 2015 in the Netherlands ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Managed to squeeze in the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh museum (with guides and audio guide) in one day.
I focused on the part of the Rijksmuseum that covered the golden age of Dutch supremacy and the paintings of Rembrandts period, analysis of the paintings by our guide are quite thorough especially of "Night Watch"
The Van Gogh museum and its audio+tablet guide were quite good , a limited exhibition sshowcasing the similar styles of Van Gogh and Edvard Munch (The Scream) was also on with the centerpiece being "Sunflowers"Read more
Tuan: I went to a talk about image analysis on Van Goghs. He is apparently a sloppy painter and like half of his canvas paintings have hidden paintings underneath the final one.
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Bah. I didn't mean to post that 4 times. FindPenguins kept saying "something went wrong" and wouldn't update to reflect the post.
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Day 13
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
☀️ 14 °C
Altitude: 45 m
France Boulogne-Billancourt 48.837702, 2.26266448°50’16” N 2°15’46” E
Paris Day 1
September 30, 2015 in France ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
After a quick look at the free bits of the Amsterdam Science Museum while waiting for the train, we headed off from Amsterdam to Paris , arrived at the airbnb pla e and found it a little meh but serviceable since the host was cool. Our place is in a fairly upmarket part of Paris it seems with a really large Commercial district nearby with Microsoft Paris having this huge winged building.
Hunted around for cheap dinner place then settled for a Japanese Yakitori place since it turns out everything servicing an area like this is expensive xDRead more
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Day 14
Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 11:29 PM
🌙 11 °C
Altitude: 45 m
France Boulogne-Billancourt 48.83771, 2.26267648°50’16” N 2°15’46” E
Paris Day Two
October 1, 2015 in France ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Spent the day in the Montmartre district of Paris which used to be it's own little town around a hill outside Paris's walls where the stuffy Parisians could go to to let their hair down , this is where the Moulin Rouge is, where Van Gogh and Picasso spent a bit of their lives and where the Church of Sacre Crouer is with a painter's square near by.

We started with a great free (with tips) tour of the area with a local Monmartre-an (who prefer not to be cslled Parisian) who took us through all the local side streets and dodged all the crowds while pointing out all the intetesting parts of the area which is how I got a baguette from the bakery that won the seats for best baguette in 2015 which means they win the right to providr for the French President breakfast for a year.

Oh and we ate at a Tibetan restaurant for dinner once I verified its street cred :p We also had coffee at CB cafe which as it turns out stood for "cooka burra" cafe and was Australiasian themed so we're kinda mixing it up a little foodwiseRead more
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Day 15
Friday, October 2, 2015 at 11:29 PM
🌙 10 °C
Altitude: 45 m
France Boulogne-Billancourt 48.837687, 2.2626248°50’16” N 2°15’45” E
Paris Day Three
October 2, 2015 in France ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
The Palace of Versailles! We started with a guided tour of the Kings private apartments that are not open to the public and are even kept shut out from the sunlight, when people aren't in the rooms , to prevent fading. Each desk is worth well over a million euro as was the China. We also got to sit in the grand Versailles opera house.
We then used Rick Steves audio guide aa we walked through the public chambers and the hall of mirrors.
We ended by going over the grounds of the palaces which is also sprinkled with Marie Antoinettes Mini palacesRead more
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Day 16
Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 11:19 PM
🌙 12 °C
Altitude: 45 m
France Boulogne-Billancourt 48.837722, 2.26255948°50’16” N 2°15’45” E
Paris Day 4
October 3, 2015 in France ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
The Louvre
We got into the Louvre via the shopping mall/ metro entrance that skips all the crowds and then used Rick Steves audio guide to do a greatest hits tour and then went to the castle ruins underneath the museum and the Egyptian section. Oh and since the Louvre was the Royal palace before Versailles there's opulent ceiling art and gilded crenellations all over.

We then walked all the way from the Louvre through the Concorde square , down the Chams Elysee and to the Arc du TriumphRead more
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Day 17
Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 11:55 PM
☁️ 12 °C
Altitude: 45 m
France Boulogne-Billancourt 48.837692, 2.26262148°50’16” N 2°15’45” E
Paris Day Five
October 4, 2015 in France ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Notre Dame
We went and took a walking tour of Notre Dame and the surrounding area, aside from the Cathedral itself we got to see a little neighborhood that used tombstones for staira, a police station built where a group of 15th century murderers preyed on solo vistors and disposed of the bodies Sweeney Todd style. We also tried out Frances best ice cream at Berthillons. There was also the key bridge and the area where Heloise and Abellard lived whose real life doomed romance are a key part of French literature.
Oh and a gamer bar and the outside of the Pantheon, we tried to get to the Paris Catacombs but it turned out that while it closes at 8 it only admits people before 7Read more
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Day 18
Monday, October 5, 2015
⛅ 16 °C
Altitude: 37 m
France Paris 07 Ancien - Quartier Arcis 48.856898, 2.35084448°51’25” N 2°21’3” E
Paris Day 6
October 5, 2015 in France ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
We slept in a bit and headed to the Eiffel Tower after I needed to get some new shoes, our much with the weather ran out so it was quite rainy and cloudy but a decent capstone to the Paris section of the tour. We also had dinner at this cool French Restaurant that had great service and prices.Read more
How long was the wait going up the tower?
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Day 21
Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 12:20 AM
⛅ 11 °C
Altitude: 456 m
Switzerland Thalwil 47.294415, 8.56344747°17’40” N 8°33’48” E
Thalwil
October 8, 2015 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
We took the train from Paris and then headed to Switzerland ,
We stopped at Basel and Zurich but there was too much rain to walk around much or see the scenery.
We then headed to Thalwil to stay over at Paul and Denise's place ( who have a 3 week old baby boy Max :) ) where we all cooked an authentic swiss dish which involved pasta , bacon, gruyere cheese and Apple sauce.Read more
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Day 21
Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 12:23 AM
⛅ 11 °C
Altitude: 439 m
Switzerland Tribschen 47.044205, 8.32116447°2’39” N 8°19’16” E
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Lucerne
October 8, 2015 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
From Thalwil we headed to Lucern, took a walk around town to see the sites, lost an umbrella, walked the 500 year old fort walls and saw the famous Lion sculpture.
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Day 21
Thursday, October 8, 2015
⛅ 12 °C
Altitude: 533 m
Germany Bavarian State Opera 48.13913, 11.58018848°8’21” N 11°34’49” E
Munich Day one
October 8, 2015 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Took the train from Lucerne to Munich, arrived in the evening , checked into our fancy hostel and had dinner with one of Glen's friends from uni who now works locally
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Day 23
Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 5:26 PM
⛅ 11 °C
Altitude: 533 m
Germany Bavarian State Opera 48.139131, 11.58018848°8’21” N 11°34’49” E
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Munich Day Two
October 10, 2015 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
We spent the day around the area next to Neuschwanstein castle in the Bavarian country side, its one of the incredibly expensive glamout castles commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig II which was 75% complete before his suspicious death when the government coffers got nearly empty, it inspired Disney studios for Sleeping Beauty and probably the Disney logo.Read more
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Day 23
Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 5:30 PM
⛅ 11 °C
Altitude: 533 m
Germany Bavarian State Opera 48.139131, 11.58018848°8’21” N 11°34’49” E
Munich Day 3
October 10, 2015 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Took a walking tour of the city and its plazas , which covered the history of the Bavarian kings, where the Nazis began their political movements, and the restored buildings after the city was 80% destroyed post Allied bombings. On the more cheerful now we also learnt about how intrinsic beer is to the city and we had lunch on a beer hall.Read more
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Day 24
Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 9:26 PM
🌙 5 °C
Altitude: 533 m
Germany Munich Central Station 48.138516, 11.56040648°8’19” N 11°33’37” E
Munich Day 4
October 11, 2015 in Germany ⋅ 🌙 5 °C
Visited Dachau which makes it two concentration camps this trip , then ended with a visit to the best of the beer halls in the city according to the guide and a local.
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Day 25
Monday, October 12, 2015
⛅ 19 °C
Altitude: 5 m
Italy Parco Savorgnan 45.44315, 12.32483745°26’35” N 12°19’29” E
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Venice
October 12, 2015 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Took the train from Munich to Venice , passing though Verona , got to see the country side change from little hamlets near the Alps to countryside vineyards. We arrived in the evening and took a Vaporetto ride up the Grand Canal while listening to Rick Steves audio guide , then we went around St. Marks square while also taking in an audio tour. Had dinner in an Italian tapas restaurant and roamed the practically empty but safe streets at night.Read more
Bridge of sighs?
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Gyurme Tsenor Nope may one of the main bridges across the grand canal, I just uploaded the bridge of sighs though
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Gyurme Tsenor The bridge of sighs
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