Travelog: Me and our journey

Our first trip into Italy was to Venice! It seemed that it is the only place in Italy that we deemed attractive enough for us to brave in the Italian border. Not that we were intimidated by the bad traffic nor the bad drivers there but combined factors such as the rise of criminal activities, the congested towns and others influenced us to postpone and push aside any trips until we have exhausted places to go in Europe. Hahahaha... so until we returned home in 2010. Funny things about this trip. 1. It was not our first choice to go to Venice. Initially, we decided that we would go to Northern Europe (Holland, Belgium & Luxembourg) but we postponed the trip to next year. 2. Last minute, we decided on Venice and at the same time, our friends, Ita and Kak Emi also decided to go to Venice. So, we decided to convoy together to Venice. Three days before the trip, we decided to cancel the trip coz I was so, so sick and that I could not handle long journey (5 hours drive). So we ca...

Our initially planned for Easter trip is to singgah at Milan on the way balik but the, the traffic jam plus that we were unable to find hotel with free parking dampened our mood for Milan.  Luckily, we brought along the laptop and managed to plan alternative trip to Lugano instead.  Oh man, last minute search for hotel is very, very difficult especially during Easter break. Luckily, we found a hotel located at Varese, Italy. It is very near to Lugano, around 40km aje and also cheap at Euro 90 per night...  Lagi pun, dah alang-alang cross Mont Blanc tunnel yg mahal tu might as well we spent most places yang terpaksa lalu tunnel tu... Lugano is at the other side of Switzerland and two ways can reach it... either a 5 hour plus driving using Swiss highway or 3 hr via Mont Blanc tunnel...  The Mont Blanc tunnel We ended our tour of Venice around 4pm and headed straight to Varese while Ita and her family made a stop to Nove before going home to Geneve...

Avenue des Champs-Élysées What to say about Paris ? A beautiful city in the eyes of us but with a "sinister" underground life! Romantic but full of darkness, life full of romance but with violence touch. Well last week, we decided to go to Paris despite: The riots  The bombing;  The forecasted heavy rain and wind...  Notre Dame Cathedral Well, frankly, the threats of riots and bombings were not an obstacle, but the weather was bad! We started our journey from home around 4am going to Paris using the scenic roads instead of highways.  We used the St Cergue road to the border of La Cure (between Swiss and France on Jura) snow showered heavily but it was quite lovely because you can see the flawless and whiteness of the snow. Because it was so heavy you can't see clearly what was in front of you. The snow was still virgin with no evidence of tampering by humans or animals at 2am! But it was quite eerie. We arrived at Paris around 1p...

Sebenarnya banyak perkara yang hendak dicoretkan. Kalau boleh pada hari itu juga. Tapi kelemahan manusia (saya la tu!), tidak pandai mencuri masa. Oleh itu, guna alasan tidak berkesempatan dan sibuk dengan urusan kerja. My bad.  C.E.R.N sepanjang 27km di sempadan Switzerland-Perancis Hari ini saya nak mencoret tentang C.E.R.N. C.E.R.N? apa tu? Kepada ahli ekonomi, cikgu, pegawai bank, jurujual, pemandu, peniaga, perkataan C.E.R.N mungkin agak pelik. Tapi cuba tanya ahli fizik atau mereka yang belajar atau minat fizik  C.E.R.N adalah tempat 'idaman' untuk dilawati. C.E.R.N memiliki sebuat makmal kajian partikel fizik yang terbesar di dunia. Besarnya melangkaui dua bandar di dua buah negara--Switzerland dan Perancis. Masuk melalui pintu sebelah Perancis, boleh keluar melalui pintu satu lagi di negara Switzerland. Sebenarnya, saya dan rakan mendapat peluang menjejakkan kaki ke C.E.R.N apabila rakan diplomat dari Filipina memaklumkan bahawa suaminya yang bekerja di  C....

Middle week August 2007, while visiting Wan (Muzalmah's mom) at Grand Saconnex before her journey home to Malaysia, our friends invited us for a trip to Colmar. It was a hasty decision on our end with Abahnya just came back from Malaysia and then, our Citroen C4 has not been serviced yet. However, it was a very satisfying journey. Colmar is so beautiful. No wonder who-is-the-millionaire-in-malaysia decided to create a twin city of Colmar at Bukit Tinggi.  Initially, we decided to go to both Strasbourg and Colmar but we did not manage to cover both. So we decided to go to Colmar only. In total, we had a convoy of 6 cars going to Colmar. So far it was the largest group of people from Geneva travelling together.  A bit info on Colmar:  Colmar is a town and commune in the Haut-Rhin département of Alsace, France. In 1999 Colmar had a population of 65,136. Colmar was founded in the 9th century. This was the location where Charles the Fat held a diet in 884. Colmar ...