Auckland
18 сентября 2015 г., Новая Зеландия ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Left at 9 pm from the flat using Uber, not a bad ride
Singapore
19 сентября 2015 г., Сингапур ⋅ ⛅ 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 onlyЧитать далее
Copenhagen
20 сентября 2015 г., Дания ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Europe!
Berlin Day 1
20 сентября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 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 theЧитать далее
Berlin Day 2
21 сентября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 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 otherЧитать далее
Berlin Day 3
22 сентября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ ☀️ 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 theЧитать далее
Berlin Day 4
23 сентября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 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 withЧитать далее
Berlin Day 5
24 сентября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ 🌙 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 bitsЧитать далее
Leeuwarden Day 1
25 сентября 2015 г., Нидерланды ⋅ 🌙 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 enormousЧитать далее
Leeuwarden Day 2
27 сентября 2015 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Days 2 and 3 , walked around Leeuwarden and hung out
Amsterdam Day 1
28 сентября 2015 г., Нидерланды ⋅ 🌙 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 )
Amsterdam
29 сентября 2015 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 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 theЧитать далее
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.
Bah. I didn't mean to post that 4 times. FindPenguins kept saying "something went wrong" and wouldn't update to reflect the post.
Paris Day 1
30 сентября 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 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 butЧитать далее
Paris Day Two
1 октября 2015 г., Франция ⋅ 🌙 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 isЧитать далее
Paris Day Three
2 октября 2015 г., Франция ⋅ 🌙 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 ,Читать далее
Paris Day 4
3 октября 2015 г., Франция ⋅ 🌙 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 ruinsЧитать далее
Paris Day Five
4 октября 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 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 stationЧитать далее
Paris Day 6
5 октября 2015 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 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 ofЧитать далее
Thalwil
8 октября 2015 г., Швейцария ⋅ ⛅ 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 overЧитать далее
Lucerne
8 октября 2015 г., Швейцария ⋅ ⛅ 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.
Munich Day one
8 октября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 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
Munich Day Two
10 октября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 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 wasЧитать далее
Munich Day 3
10 октября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 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%Читать далее
Munich Day 4
11 октября 2015 г., Германия ⋅ 🌙 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.
Venice
12 октября 2015 г., Италия ⋅ ⛅ 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 aЧитать далее
Gyurme Tsenor
Nope may one of the main bridges across the grand canal, I just uploaded the bridge of sighs though
