Norway - part 2

From last ariticle, my route was from Oslo to Myrdal (by train).
Then, to FLÅM (by a mountain train), to (Gudvangen) by ferry, to Voss (by bus).
The last part is from Boss to Bergen by train.
If you only want to go to Bergen from Oslo without visiting the fijod, you can just take one train.

The smart Norweigen government designed a set for those tourists who don't want to spend much time on buying and checking he timetable.
But the "nutshell set ticket" will be two times more than you bought one by one.
How poor I am, I certainly chose to buy it one by one~
But you just followed the backpackers there, you will always get the tickets on time~
Ha~ well~ you bought the set ticket, there will be a personnel holding one sign to show you the direction.
We still can follow it no matter what!

After the scary night, I finally got on the train on time~
When I closed my room's door, I made a huge noice on purpose~
Yes, I am really childish!

Oh~ Taiwanese accent is surrounding me!!!
There were four aunty and one student talked with each other.
For sure~ I tried to talk with them~
Those aunty just took a two weeks vocation and beocme a backpacker in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland~
So cool~ I was really haappy I met them~
They kept giving me some traditional food from Taiwan.
e.g. dry beef~ oh~ Ha! I don't eat that acturally....
But I was still really happy that I can have a trip with them~

The above picture is the view when we took the first train....
Amazing.........
The above picture was taken when we take the mountain train.
I really have to say!!!
The Tarako in TAIWAN is BETTER than the view there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Although the manual there kept talking about how great and hard-to-build the train is.
But we can just drive a car to see a much more beautiful view in Taiwan la!!!
(Just remember to wear helmet... watch the falling rock)
The watfall is not really special~
But there are few women dancing on the rocks next to the fall with some classical music?!


That's right!
The above picture is the one famoust Fijod~
There are many famous ones in Norway and New Zealand~
Based on the opinions of those Taiwanese aunty~ they thought this one is the best!
How lucky I am~
Just remind tourists that you can bring some toast with you~
There are many sea gull trying to catch the food you threw~ quite intereting!


After the ferry~ we took a bus to the next stop to take a train to Bergen.
I also said good bye to those Taiwanese there~
The skill of the driver is so great~ we can take many good pictures on the really steep silde!
Just see above~ it is not in heaven! it is in Norway~

I can' believe the Norweigen train system is not rigorous at all.
The train is delayed more than half an hour.
And we got inform that the train will not come~
We need to take a bus to Bergen.
It means that I will be late coz I made appointment with a coachsurfer there....
Anyway~ I followed with the tough Americans and got on the bus quite fast~

On the way, I also talked with a Norweigen teenager.
He didn't know Taiwan at first....
Thanks to Discovery Channel which introduced Taipei 101, and he just realized I come from a modern country but jungle....

I like Bergen so much~
It is also a hot spot for Japanese.
There is even a direct flight from Tokyo to here!
It was the old capital of Norway before 18th centary.
The atmosphere there is so casual and enjoyable~
But the price here is the same.... DAMN EXPENSIVE.
I felt embarrassing when I refused the surfer's ask to visit a restaurant there.
I know that if I went, I will only be able to eat instant noodles for the whole trip in the UK.
But he is quite nice~
He bought many shirmps from supermarket and made a traditional meals for me.
So delicious....
He is one year older than me.
But his income per month is around 3000 Euro.
Never mention how great the welfare from the fuel company.
They even gave him a free trip to iceland or some hot spots in the world...
The world is flat but.... not exactly fair. XD


The above two pictures are also taken in Bergen.
Not only Norway, the whole north European countries are so rich.
I saw many small boats which has a Denmak or Sweden flag in the back.
Those people just took their own boats to visit some ports not so far.
The fresh sea food will be purchased and cooked immediatly.
Many of them just sat on the boat and read a book or magezine.
In front of them, there is a table which has a glass of white wine and some sea food.
How about me?
I was eating the extra breakfast took from surfer's place for lunch.
Mm...
To have a positive thinking way~ we enjoyed the same view anyway!
Ha... XD

Norway - 07/2008

Before I went to the UK, I visit Norway which are said to have the most beautiful Fiord in the world.

However, I really didn't have much time and money in one of the most expensive countries in the world, and I decided to join the "Norway in a nutshell."

It was amazing and astonishing... I think I really made a good decision!

And why I wanted to write this article suddenly, it is because I watched a Japanese channel with my parents few days before.

The NHK producers went to there to film a tourism channel~

When I talked with my parents the journy I had there, my memory just came out like a spring~

Just take this chance~ share with everybody~ how remarkble it is!

The picture above is the opposite direction of my trip.
Acturally I arrived Oslo first, then, my trip finished in Bergen~
The stop were: OSLO > MYRDAL > FLÅM > GUDVANGEN > VOSS > BERGEN
It always takes you one whole day~

I departed from Hamburg.
I spent 4 days in a lovely couchsurfing host's place.
Staying in her family is one of my best experience in Germany.
Well~ I still got ot leave~
Ha!
And I took the Noweigen Airline from there to Oslo.
When I checked in, one old lady stood in front of me who was just talking with some elders.
It was fortuitously~ she jsut sat next to me~
Technically there was a free seat between us.
I noticed that she talked with the flight attendents in another language~
After the enjoyable staying in Hamburg~ I still can't stand with a lonely time.
So I jsut tried to chat with her~
She was quite nice~
There was a routine conversation between us~
Why I can speak some German~ why I am here~ What is my next plan~
Bla~ Bla~ Bla~
But she was admired my courage to do that~
(I think many friends who read my blog now are much braver than me...)
She said she will buy me some food~
(Maybe coz I just read the menu two times and put it back....)
But I insisted to refuse her, and I also explained the habits what Taiwanese always do.
In the end, I still ordered a muffin XD
Yes, I don't have principles~
It seems to be a good start of my trip!

Oslo is really huge (not exactly)~
Specially for me, I tried to save money, and I walked across the whole city~

I did my best to find a couchsurfing place in this damn expensive city....
But I lost.... Not any positive answer at all...
There is only one hostel in Oslo whose price is under 30 Euros.
For sure~ I chose it~
The hostel is quite huge and looks like an apartment.
Six people per room with a toilet, small sink, and a refrigerater~
Quite nice, isn't it?!
When I went in the room~ there is left only 2 beds.
A French guy talked to me actively~
He is a chef and had a holiday here~ just tried to chat with her Brasilian girl friend via Skype~
The beds there are one top and one down~
I chose the up one~
Based on his suggestion, it is possible to walk to the most famous park in Oslo (above two pictures).
I just did it~
This city is not really beautiful~but they have 7-11~
The price there still shocked me a lot~
Same~ I got lots of food material in the supermarket~
A fresh lettuce, milk, box of ham, toast~
Great!

The park is good~
Everybody will touch the penis of the angry kid~ it is so shnny~
The tower is also great~
The sculpter made his work on a siggle pillar~
There are more than one hundrends lively on the pillar~
It is kindly rough but detailed~
Still~ it made me have a profound image~
When I went back to my hostel, it is almost 8:30pm~
The sky is so bright...
After taking a shower and reading some more information for the next day~
I went to sleep around 10:30pm.

GOD!!!!
Somebody is touching me!!!
Not waiting to have any second thought, somebody blamed on me!!!
"What are you fucking doing on my bed!'
"Are you sick man!"
"How come when I come back there is a damn ass hole sleep on my bed!"
Well~ here is the story~
When I came back from the park.
The upper bed I chose which was occupied by another people~
I think maybe he really like the upper one~
I just moved back my stuffs from the desk to the dower one~
But there is a blanket on the top~
I asked the French guy~
He siad that place should be free~
I just move that DAMN blanket to the desk~
And the coming story you all know that....
The American came back drunk who found out somebody slept on his bed~
And started to scream on me~

Nobody comes to help me~
It was so loud~
I was sure everybody was awake~
sigh... this is world la~
I tried to explain on him what happened~
But he didn't give me a chance to do that~
I just realized that there is a empty bed with a mess sheet i nthe corner~
Got it!
The stupid hostel didn't change the sheet....
It made all of us think that place is occupied
I was a smart but weak Asian~
I moved to that bed to have the rest of my sleep.
My train will leave at 6am~
Got to wake up at 5am~
Funny~
The mean and impolite American started to snore~
I also heard everybody was annoyed by that~
Thanks to my MP3~
I got a ok sleep in the end....

Oh~ it is really too long~ this article~
Got to finish here~
I will write the other two days in the next article~
Ha~

I miss you~ Germany!

Please do not judge me that I don't want to look forward....

I tried...

But there are too many things which I can't get used to that at all.

The first damn thing, the price here is toooo expensive la!!!

For example, one toast is 1.8~2.5 Euro (1AUD = 0.6 Euro), and one "on sale" coockie is 2.4~3 Euro.

Trust me, I have gone to the cheapest big supermarket.

Unfortunately, the price still amazed me a lot.

On the other hand, the bus system here is not good as Germany.

MAybe it is not fair to said that, because Germany is much smaller than here.

Well~ It is still inconvenient for me.

It's no doubt the new country will be lack some historical feelings for me.

I will do my best participating some activities in city.

Prabably it will make the condition better~

Ha!

And there are too many Asian here, sometimes I thought maybe I am in one city in China or India.

Whatever, I should study la! It is the biggest difference between here and Germany.

I need to study here!!

Oh.....

Film: I made to memorize the life in Germany~

An interlude...

After the trip in Lyon, I planed to take a plane to Budapest in east Europe.
Ya~ Everything is well planed!
Quasch! Everything is out of my control!


The story should start from the day I met Jan.
I can only choose two trains that day from Lyon to Geneve airport.
They were on 09.30 and 15.05.
Both of them will take me 2 hrs to arrive the airport. (My plane was on 18.30)
Of course I can't take the first one because I wanted to meet my old friends.

Hey~ no surprisingly!
The damn French train had a joke on me that day.
When Jan and Claire took me to the trainstation, they told me my platform is not in the train station but outside.
As a matter of fact, I have to take a bus instead of the train to Geneve.
And the bus will take me 2.5 hours to the Geneve train station but airport.
I had to transmit to airport again.
In that moment, I still don't want to put me into the negative emotion.
I tried my best to be an optimistics person :D

See~ I even took a beautiful picture as I was on the bus.
However, the attitude of the old lady(guide?) who sat next to the bus driver drove me crazy.
Both of them spoke really loudly and flirted with each other ALL THE TIME.
Athough I am not sure is it flirt or something else, the French always heard like this way...
When we finally arrived Geneve, we came across a big traffic jam....
In that moment, my heart just sank to the hell... I started to imagine how should I do if I missed my plane.
Guess what, the sweet couple can't recoginize the road of Geneve and took us turn a big circle....
Some of the passangers tried to help the bus driver to find the correct way.
I called Ching and some friends in Tuebingen to help me check the timetable of the train from Geneve to the airport... (Thanks Ching, she sent me a SMS just on time~)


There was a train on 17.54, and we were around 500 meters to the train station.
That moment was 17.49!
I shouted to the old lady to let me out of the bus because I don't want to miss the last chance of my plane.
She started to use French trying to flirt me, no, to stop me!
There was a Vietnam student who can speak English and French help me to explain to her.
I finally got off the bus on 17.51.....


I ran...
Just ran as there was a lion after me....
I got in the train just on time... but I can't stand out and subside on the floor of the train...
I don't have time to take a rest.
The train arrived airport 5 minutes later.
I used my last willpower to support myself to the accounter.

That moment was 18.00.
They said to me and another girl who got off the same bus from Lyon to Geneve 10 minutes before, "I'm so sorry, they start to board, you cannot check in right now, it is too late!"
The girl next to me started to tear out...
I tried to say something funny to her, but she just ignored...
However, I should try to figure it out what should I do....

Olga who is another exchange student of NCHU waited for me in Budapest that night.
She always said it is her first trip without in the tour group.
It let me feel I have a responsibility to meet her there to accomplish my east Europe trip although I wanted to go back to Tuebingen to cry in my room. XD


I can't remember I tried to ask the flights price from all of the front desks of flights companies or surfed on the internet to find some information first.
After 1 hour seaching, I found out I can't afford the expensive flight or train tickets, which means I can only take a bus or on foot.
There were no bus from Geneve to Budapest but Krakow which was my second destination of east Europe.
I decided to take 24 hour to there... The bus will be on 15.00 in another day.

Thanks Claudy... He can let me live in his living room for one night....

I felt so touched about that...........

There was one thing stupid happened before I went to his house.

Because he had something to do and he will arrive his home on 21.00.

I have to stay outside by myself in that period.

Well~ When I stayed in Lyon, Jovian and Jan told me something bad about some Arabisch immigration.

It left a little bit shadow in my mind.

I chose to eat a big mac meal near his home.

When he go home, I can go to meet him immediately.

Around 21.00, I got his SMS which said he was at home and I can go there right now.

I carried my big backpack and left the restaurant.

!! Two of Arabisch just stood in front of the door.

As I went out, I just thought maybe I should stayed inside for more minutes or something.

But I still walked out and on my way to Claudy's place.

They followed me.

Damn!

I wanted to stop because I will turn into a small street.

I just stop and didn't move, suddenly, two of them hit on my both of sides... (a really strong hit)

I thought, ok, how bad can the situation be.....

Surprisingly, they just said "Pardon... XXXXX --> in French, I didn't understand~"

I thought I mislead their meanings... They may just want to walk to the same direction at the same moment as mine in coincident....

Thanks to Claudy's patient...

I started to talk with him everything I just happened for one hour without break.. (I become really really talktive as I released...)

And the upper picture is his beautiful living room.

I had a really good sleep in his house~

I got on the bus in the other day...

Oh.. The trip is really LONG....

The bus stopped quite often to take more passangers.

And most of them were Polisch who wanted to save some money to go back to their home.

The fact was that only me was not Polisch.

It is quite strange when I stayed in this kind of environment....

I came across a lady who can speak a little bit German.

But after 10 minutes, she told me that German always like to go to Asia to have sex only.

Such a ass hole I think...

Ok~ I had no friend.

The bus driver played some movies on the bus.

I always knew that people in the west world don't lile the subtitle at all.

But you know how will Polish do in this situation?

They just asked a man to translate every sentances after the original one.

And no matter women or men spoke, it will always be the same man to translate.

It is so weird.

But I found all of Polisch, they all enjoyed in this process.

We arrived a stop to take a one hour break in the morning after 16 hours trip.

They just ordered something to eat in a language I don't know and I even don't know where am I. XD

I asked the sales in Englsih, can I pay in Euro?

And I used one Euro to buy a hot tea...

I found out I am in Poland cause I saw the flag~

The upper picuture is the stop~

Acturally, I am really worried about will I be "done" in that period~

Ha!

We transmitted in the southwest city of Poland. (My destination is Krakow)

I went to take a look of the really big bus station~

Well~ something happening AGAIN~

I came across 3 soldiers.

They asked me to show them my passport!

They were not so polite and treated me as I was illegal to visit their country or something~

I just wondered, hey man~ if someone wanted to stow away to Poland, that will definetely not Asian....

One of them called someone to ask many stuffs, I totally can't understand what's happening....

They just surrrounded me for 15 minutes.

I just almost missed the transmitting bus~

And I still don't know why they wrote something in a small hand book before they returned my passport~

At least, I was safe to arrive Krakow after 26 hours bus trip.

Lyon

Lyon - the second biggest city of France.
Forbes magazine recommanded it is one of the 20 cities you have to visit.
I am happy I have a chance to visit here with Jovian and Jan~
Each of them showed me the most "Lyon" sights for me.
I was also really pleasure to meet them!


Lyon = the hometown of delicious food!
I have to say it is so true.......
I still remembered I had a really sucks meal in Paris which gave me a bad image of French food.
This time, thanks Jovian, who prepared the best wine and took me to taste a restaurant which is only known by the local people.
Can you believe that a meal which has five dishes only cost me 11 Euro!!
And the quality and smell is no doubt awsome!
I can't eat all of them... (But I still felt regret right now XD)

Jovian is a Chinese girl we met in Italy with Branden and Mary.
She showed me her French living style~
I mean it!
She taught me how to taste wine and how to eat formally in a French restauant.
That is for sure I can't remember everything she taught me.
But I still enjoy the process to know it.
She has a really heavy homework pressure, but she still take some time to learn those interesting stuffs.
And me? Maybe I should try to learn some ways of making traditional German breads!!
Ha~ or even beer!

There is another characteristic of Lyon - mural (壁畫).
I just chose one of them.
See~ it is really hard to seperate what is real and what is fake - the lion, the girl, both, or none ?

In the last day, I went to meet Jan's sweet family.
He and Claire just have a cute daughter, Anna, few months ago~
It 's so amazing~ Last time we met we were all the poor employees of yellow stone.
Then, he had a family and we met each other in France.
We talked about lots of things in the park.
It is so funny to memorize and blame how bad our supervisors treated us.
There are so many remarkable memory in the short two months.
But I know, those frineds I knew in that period will be my lifelong friends...


After a substantial trip in Lyon!
I will start the most exciting trip by myself~
I think I learned many things via it...
It proved I really grow stronger than I think...

Swizerland

After a one month preparation of the English exam, I finally have a chance to do a new trip.
And this time, I would like to travel from Switzeland to France, then, go to east Europe.
In the Switzeland and France part, I would like to visit five of my friends.
After that, I will take a plane to meet another partner in Budapest.
It seems everything is really fine~ however, I still met some troubles.... it added some the rate of funny in the trip~ I should think positive in this way, right?!



My first stop was Luzern (Lucerne) which is between Zurich and Bern.
The most famous sight will be the wooden tower.
It was a muiti-functional building, however, it is a shop right now.
I like this place very much.
I also changed the mind which I always thought the lake in a city will limit the moving area of a city (I felt it as I visited Zurich).
Luzern was surrounded by Alpes and a lake.
The people here just like live in a small kingdom.
It is not so hard to realize why it will be the starting point of the country.



After visiting Luzern, I went to the Bern region to visit one of my best frined in Swizerland - Christine.
She and her family are so nice and treated me so great in the three days visiting trip.
I ate many delicious and traditional food of Swizerland.
Suprisingly! I like them very much!
Besides that, I had a great chat with her family.
It is really a fantastic chance for me to know more about the special country.
The most astonishing thing I found that is that Swizerland is a neutral land, but they always think about the worst situation mostly.
For example, the government of Swizerland asked every family need to have a room in the basement.
And the room needs to put many foods and drinks all the time.
Of course, the walls of the room is really thinker than the normal ones.
I believed this idea is totally right.
It let me take a look of the value of people in the swizerland.

Before I went to Bern which is the capital of this country.

I just heard the people from this city always speak quite slowly.

Maybe it is because the symbal of the city is bear, the people love them very much.

They even cultivated them in the city.

You can see those bears really easily.

However, the Berner say they need to think twice before they speak out their words.

Ha~ ok~ I take it~

But I really think this city is my favorite city of Swizerland.

Is the slow temple or the bears here?

I think maybe is the combination of feelings for me are so great!

If you come to Swizerland, you definetely need to visit the mountains!!

There are the most beautiful Alpes which are the most famous and beautiful mountains in the world.

People will choose Jungfrau(少女峰) to be the destination of their trip if they don't have enough time.

For me, I just can't fight the attraction of Matterhorn(馬特洪峰) which has a special pyramids' outlook.

To see is to believe!

I still don't know how to explain how great the mountain is.

Christine said she can't find a better weather as the day we visited.

I agree with that!! Specially we visited there in Spring which has unstable weather all the time!

The last stop will be Geneva(Genf).

I went to visit a friend online who was an old friend of Dondon(冬威)~

She came to here for 7 to 8 years and had a great life here.

I really thought she is totally become to a international people~

Well~ I still really appreciated she and her boyfriend who took me to eat in a Chinese retaurant!

I missed the smell of duck very much...

Moreover, the hostel price of here is sooooooo expensive!!! one night up to 35 Euro~

And I was too late to book them, I can only live in the hotel which will cost me for more than 50 Euro.

I choosed to use the "couch surfing" which is a website served a platform for everyone around the world to serve or find a couch to sleep when you visited a city.

I am happy I tried this out.

I met Claudy who loves Chinese culture and want to visit Taiwan.

We have a wonderful talks all the time~

He even gave me his key when he went out to work (I need more sleep XD) just after we knew each other.

I really like this feelings that two persons will trust each other from their heart.

Well~ How should I say... I come back to live in Geneve three days later.

It is out of my plan but still be a great memory anyhow!

You're so charming~ Paris!

Recently, there are many friends who studies in Chinese department in Tuebingen go to China or Taiwan to study for half year.
It's a little bit upset about that.
They really help me a lot~
On the other hand, I thought I lost some chances to practice my German.
However it is really a great chance for them to make their Chinese better, just like what I do in German.

But my travel plan is keeping going~
I went to Paris with another two friends in the past week.
It is just enough to visit most of significant places of Paris I thought.
Therefore, it is out of question that Paris is too big for anyone to understand and experience.
But I tried my best to feel and to put those beautiful things in my head.
I can say that my eyes and minds, both of them are really enjoyable.

In spite of the cold weather, we still have lots of fun there.
In the seven days, four of them were overcast, two of them were sunny, and the last day is raining.
I still feel it's wonderful for me.
I have a chance to see the different side of the city.
I consider that it can be called perfect situation of visiting. :)

If I need to choose one stuff which makes me remarkble, I will definetely choose Tower Eiffel.
I just can't stop the magic of towers and bridges anyway.
Compared with those shallow or normal sights in Paris, I also thought the poetic atmospheres is the most charming of the city.
You can easily feel it anytime everywhere.
I firmly convinced that its the reason why so many artists want to spend lots of time here.
Well~ I also painted one painting~ can I call myself who is an artist as well?!

To sum up, I really agree a sentence said: "If I am not in the Cafe, I must be the way I go to Cafe."
Too many Cafe only standed in the corner, and it just like arouses my creative gene to make some works.
I believed that Paris is a city that everyone must visit her one time in the life.

The Lafayette department store (老佛爺<拉法葉>百貨)
Parc du Champ de Mars (戰神廣場)
Cafe des Deux Moulins (雙磨坊 - 艾蜜莉的異想世界)
Montmartre (蒙馬特)
Tour Eiffel (艾菲爾鐵塔)
self-portrait of Van Gogh (in Orsay museum)
Venice ( in Louvre)

Brussel

Brussel is the capital of Belgium.
It is also the headquater of European Union.
All of those are only a tiny part of this variety city.
I quite enjoy of the time when I driving around of the exciting city. Ha Ha~
It is a memorable door which is really like the Brendan Door in Berlin.
But this one in Brussel is much more younger.
I suggested everybady who can take the elevator to the top of the door.
It is free and you will have a wonderful view upstair!!!

Then, this is the Grand Place.

It is also the heart of the old town of Brussel.

I really like this place.

Except that you can visit most of the famous sights here, and all of the buildings here are worthy to take a look detailed.

In the night time, when those lights spoting on the buildings, that will be an another feeling!!

Ok~

He is quite famous to everyone!

He is Julian who is a sculpture of a little boy who is urinating all the time.

Those quaint European always like to help him to take on different kinds of clothes.

But he is surprisingly so small.

I guess he is not taller than 30 cm.

Food!

Brussel has so great sweet foods.

The most famous are Waffels and Chocolate.

I am so sorry my sensitive teeth will not allow me to eat so sweet food.

Instead of that, I taste the Waffel.

It is qite special of that~ It taste a little bit bitter~

It's weird~ right?

But when he eat it with some honey or cream.

The sweet flavor will counteract the bitter.

In sum, I recommand it!!! The crazy traffic in Brussel let me drive 15 mins to attain a building just in fount of me.

That's right is this allian building.

Acturally it is the Atonium model which was build for one exhibition.

Why I always said the traffic in Brussel is crazy?

There are always many trams on the streets.

Although the tramlines are about 5 cm higher than the normal road.

But you always come across typical Brussel drivers drive on it when there is no tram operating.

Of course I did it as well, it is so exciting.

There are some dead spaces which will let you not sure is there a tram or any car there.

It's exciting!!!

Ha~ next time when you visit Brussel, please be careful.

I believed there are more and more driving like me~

It is an important reason that I like this city so much.

For a Taiwanese, maybe this city will be the most suitable one~

At least for me, it is!

Freeway driving!!!

In the last few days, me, Dorcas, Kay, Raymand, and Hiromi drived to Luxembourg, Netherland, and Belgium for five days.
It is so exciting and amazing!!!
Specially there is no speed limit on most of German highway.
I really experieced the upper 180 km- speed!
Like flying~~~
It is so lucky for us.
We booked the car from website for VW Golf.
It is a little bit too small to fit five of us.
And I always need a bigger place to drive the car.

Hey~
But there is no mare VW in this company, and we have already booked it two days before.
They only had to give us "Mercedes Benz"!!!
I really agree that good car is presented the good quality and good A.I..
This car fir all of my asks.
I hope I can buy it in the future. XD

If you drive a car in a city, that will come across a big problem. You will always have to find a suitable parking space. The parking fee in those city is damn expensive.Sometimes we have to take off the car and take a photo. Then, we get on the car later. It's so interesting~I really want to thank the car to let us see so many things that never been attented with public transportation tools.
Besides that, it is really a wonderful experience for me. I am enjoying looking up in the map. This time, I did the thing all the time. And thanks to Dorcas and Raymond, specially Dorcas, there is not so much girl who can understand the map so well~ ha~

Well~ I am good at that as well~ Thanks my mom giving me such great sense of direction. That is no wondering Brendan and Mary calling me "GPS"!! Oh~ Maybe I am too arrogant. But I felt so proud of myself when I find the right direction by my sense. No matter what it is a great memory to drive the car on those countries!! Ha~ I should learn Franch and Dutch next time when I drive on their roads...

Siena

People said the square in Siena is the most beautiful one in the world.
I agree with that.
It's really hard to image how the TOSCANA area growing so many different but variety places.
And Siena is the famous and elegent one.

You can take a look of the tower.
It is the landmark of Siena.
The students of Siena university have to climb to the top as they graduate.
I thought it is because they need to know what kind of the place to cultivate them in the most important time of their life.
( I also climbed to the tower of National Chung-Cheng University before I graduated. It's really high... really~)
And the lay of the land is getting lower when it is close to the tower.
You can lie down on the floor and enjoy the sunshine, maybe take a nap as well~

See~

Branden just lay on the floor~

He doen't want to take a rest or something.

We just take pictures with each other~ The posture is much better and easier to take a good photo here.

Many tourists starred at us at that time~

Many this kind of pictures are taken in this situation...

Stupid~ but really interesting!

It seems I am not the stupidest one... XD
Did they think they are the Twin Heros (絕代雙驕)?

That's right!
This kind of way dried the clothes is so attrative.
Why?
I don't know~
They just attracted me to take lots of photos on me~
I believed in some way it really fit my imagination of Italy~
Relax and comfortable!! (Just image you are those clothes~ :) )

How amazing this place is~

Just push the bottom of your camera, you will find out you have lots of postcard-alike pictures in your camera.

Besides that, I really thought Italy is a perfect place for you to take the black-and-white pictures.

Every B&W picture seems to tell a story to you~

I am so enjoying in their stories.

Aren't you?

Siena is definetely the town made me feel most comfortable one ever~

Most of the pigeons lived in the wall of churches.

They really don't care how the town changes, they just live their style life.

It's not bad to be a pigeons in this heavenly place~ ^^

Note: We came across a Hong Kong family in the Kabob (Doenner) shop.

The fatehr works in Rome, and his wife and two daughters also live in Rome with him.

They don't like the life in Rome.

I think it is because we are just the visitors but residents.

In this way thinking, maybe Taiwan is really nice and wonderful for many people!!

Firence / Florence

I first had some image of this city was in the movie named 'Hanibar.'
It is a scary movie but presenting the mystery and beautiful sites of this city.
However, the movie has already showed the all plases of Florence.
That made me feel a little bit disapponitment.
But in another word, it is definetely a pretty city that everyone needs to come visiting one time in the life.



David....
I spent my money to visit the museum of many renaissance works.
It is really a great museum with a special decorations of it.
After I come to Florence, I found out how amazing that one family promoting the birth of new decade.
This rich family create a new trend - renaissance, which affect all of the world.
It is such a great work.
I am so glad to experience it by those art works and buildings.

Ha!
Almost forgot to mention, I didn't see original David.
But there are many repeats in this city.
I believed they are almost the same.
And I finally know who he is.
Acturally he was a man in the ancient time, there wass a giant trying to destroy everything in the town.
But David cut the giant's head and became a big hero for everyone.
That is why he always appear in the theme of art work.

And this, it is the best thing ever in Florence.

I have eaten a Chinese meal here for three times.

It is so delicious and cheap. (one meal for 4 Euro!!!)

We even become good friends with the sellers.

They gave us the warm of Chinese....

It is also sooooo delicious.....

The shop puts ice cream and cream in the bread.

The bread is a little bit soft, and it is good match with the ice cream and cream.

They all melt and mix in your mouth at the same time.

How amazing!!

I missed it so much right now!

Those two pictures are the typical street art in Florence.

Some young artist paint the famous painting on the specific place with wax pens.

Like this girl, she is a Japanese.

They only write 'Thank you' in different languages next to the painting.

What they need to do is focus on the work, people will put the money in the box next to those words.

I like the feelings. And I also expect that I will be one of them one day.

We have a good meal in the restaurant.

Again, those meal is too salty for me and Mary. (It's quite ok for Brendan...)

There was a old couple next to our desk.

He gave us some advices to order and to take pictures for us

We only ate the appetite (Pizza and pasta).

But the couple, who have everything, and it cost them 75 Euro per meal.... (It's just a noraml meal for them.)

I hope I can become so rich one day.

Another interesting street art in the city, the fat angel always tries to kiss the people next to him.

But it is quite funny, he blashed his eyes all the time to attract you giving some money to him!

Ha

The sight seeing of Florence.

Like a painting, right?

It is a street art as well!

They just have a big fight with policeman.

It seemed that the police officers want to ask them not to be the place.

But the couple they didn' think they violated the rule.

After some fights, they win!!

The audience gave them a bigf hand.

It is filmed when they start to perform again!!

Quite Europe!!