Marvin's Travel Blog

Arrival details

marvinyip — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:54:13 +0000

Date: 6 Jan 2009
Time: 6.25pm
Flight No: BA15

It should be terminal 1

Slovakia

marvinyip — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:03:28 +0000

I am in Bratislava now. The check in time is after 2pm and the time now is 7am. Can’t do any sightseeing also since it is dark so here I am uploading photos. I just came from Krakow where I went to Zakopane and ski.

Prague

There are too many photos to upload and I am lazy so this shall be it.

Photos

marvinyip — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:55:24 +0000

It is real hard to upload the photos, so I will only upload a few.

Hamburg

Ok thats it. Getting quite irritated with the hostel’s computer which is quite slow. My meals ever since I got out of Oulu is quite miserable. Either sausage or burger. My travelling companions are crazy. Either eating biscuits or just drinking water. So I just have to eat sausage or burger, since it is easy to eat. Quite weird for me to seat down and eat then they look at me eat.

Amsterdam

marvinyip — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:28:33 +0000

Hello everyone! I am now in Amsterdam. Willing be joining this free walking tour tomorrow morning before taking the night train back to Berlin. I have to recount this incident which occured yesterday when we went from Antwerp to Rotterdam. We wanted to use our Eurail pass for this leg of the journey, and so we just happily boarded the train without filling the dates in the passes. We have used the pass 8 times without any problems. Normally the train conductor will just fill in the date themselves. This time the stupid Dutch conductor immediately fine us 40 Euros and told us to read the terms of condition. We explained to him we took it so many times, and normally the conductor will stamp it, but he still said to read the terms. So we did read the terms, and after that we went to find for him to ask 1 more time. He just shoo us away by giving us the name card for the train company. Super irritating man. Fine 40 euros for nothing.

Leipzig and Dresden

marvinyip — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:27:23 +0000

I am now in Leipzig. Another super shag day today with 2 cities covered. Dresden followed by Leipzig. More time should be spend in dresden. It is a very nice city. Tomorrow will be a long trip to Brussels.

Berlin

marvinyip — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:35:19 +0000

Hello everyone I am now I’m Berlin. I would love to post the photos, but to use the wifi it cost $2.50 euros for 1 hr, so right now I am outside my hostel using free wifi. It is so tiring. We were walking for 1 whole day. The past 2 days was a diferent city. Bremen and hamburg. Tomorrow we will still be in Berlin. Every city we go to, we will go to the Christmas market. It is getting kind of boring because all the Christmas market sell the same thing. Will be heading to leipZig on Sunday.

Bremen

marvinyip — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:50:09 +0000

I am now in Bremen germany. The wweather here is so much better than that in Oulu, but it was raining just now. There is no snow here whichmakes walking so much easier. Never really see much of Bremen. We just walk around the city centre and we saw the Christmas market. It is really big. Just like a Pasar Malam. I will add pictures when I have the time.

Final Day in Oulu

marvinyip — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:21:26 +0000

Time flies by real fast, and it is already 16th Dec. I will be embarking on my trip later tonight, and my first stop will be Bremen in Germany followed by Hamburg. Life in Oulu is really great. No stress at all with lots of travelling. Think I will miss that. As I was telling Alan, I said this will be my 1 and only time in Finland. Don’t think I will ever come back to this part of the world for the forseeable future. It is just too inaccessible and too expensive too.

Computer Down

marvinyip — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:27:08 +0000

My computer is officially dead. Cannot even boot up. Lucky i am left with only 2 days in Oulu.

Cold weather

marvinyip — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:56:18 +0000

Think I will have no problem in germany. I bought too many thermal wear in Singapore. Now I will have to carry it around with me everywhere I go. I brought 3 scarf with me, and I only used 1 so far.