Summary of what I've done during the Great Easter Trip!
Bergamo :
-arrive at 12am
-sleep at airport (on the floor!)
-took train to Venice via Brescia
Brescia :
-walk around for 1.5hours in brescia
-found credit suisse office here (doh) haha
-continue train journey to venice
Venice :
-after 3-hour train journey, arrive at venice
-walk around venice, still carrying my whole backpack there
-took the vaporetto to get around venice
-visited St.marco cathedral, went to the museum and roof
-visited grand canal and that famous rialto
-1 hour bfore my train to milan, took vaporetto to a quite far island of venice, almost missed my train but luckily get back on time
-took a lot of great pictures in venice! lovely city!
Milan :
-meet up with Sandro, was brought to dinner to one of the posh area in Milan, Brera. nice tiramisu!
-networked with 4 Bocconians (2 alumni and 2 finance and marketing undergraduate), 1 NUS alumni (can u believe i met her in Milan?!), 1 trader. Haha good networking experience
-club at Milan. yeah baby, my first clubbing experience in europe was in milan, capital of nightlife haha! went to Just Cavalli, supposedly the most famous club in Milan (at least it's at travel guide book everywhere)
-didnt sleep at all that night
-plan to catch a train to go skydiving but was late. dont want to catch the next train as it's quite late
-continue sleeping until 2pm
-went to duomo! it's a perfect day that day with sun and 24 degree! love milan!
-went to castle
-stroll around milan city centre
-dinner at chinese restaurant with the guys
-learn insights abt doing business in Italy, esp private equity from Sandro. learnt a lot from him :D
-shop at Milan's Orchard Road (forgot the name of the street, was it Venice?), bought nice bags and sandals at Zara for EUR6.9 bcause the cashier gave me wrong change....where it's supposed to be EUR36.9
-took a bus tour around milan bcause my feet could no longer bear the pain T_T
-go to bergamo 5 hours bfore my flight to paris
Bergamo :
-took a short bus trip to Bergamo city centre and top hill. Nice view. Should spend more time there next time I visit it again (soon)
-fly to Paris
Paris :
-arrive at midnight, a bit scared in the metro because a lot of black people and it's midniht
-couldnt use the metro ticket so at the end i just jump over the gate to enter the station
-first day take a bus tour around paris. pass thru trocadero, eiffel tower, champs elysses, invalides, arc d triomphe and many other touristic sites. planned to go up eiffel tower but too crowded so decided to give it a pass that day.
-went to la defense, the modern part of paris.
-watch movies (shutter island) at la defense
-go to bar near Pantheon to meet up with Magali's friend = Gauthier and Chloe
-climb up the stairs of eiffel tower (i bought the wrong ticket which does not include elevator..so must use STAIRS to climb...oh my feet)
-had nice lunch with view at eiffel tower (cost me damn EUR20.5)..but anyway...
-went to Louvre, spend some hours there, disappointed with small Monalisa, I expected it to be much larger
-went along the Seine banks, so nice!
-went to Montmarte, almost cried T_T cause remember of one movie
-took random bus to get around Paris
-went to Versailles, successfully sneak in without paying hahaha but it was raining outside so didnt go to the park T_T
-went clubbing at Mix Club, Mont Parnasse. Seriously Paris club lives up to its name!! Had a lot of fun there! Magali, Chloe and Jennie totally rocked my night!
-went back from club at 3am, must walk to go back to where I stayed (which is near Eiffel tower)...so I went to eiffel tower at 3am hahaha, Paris at night quite scary though, not a lot of people..
-the last day, have dinner with Yejin and her friends at French bar, eat cheese (yes CHEESE) for dinner...arghh..and it's quite expensive
-took the first train to go to Beauvais airport to catch my flight to Oslo
Oslo :
-met up with Sara and Mbak Yuli, Mbak Yuli brought us around Oslo
-visit the famous garden (forgot its name) where there are a lot of nude sculptures
-visit the ski place, didnt ski though
-had dinner at mbak yuli's place! Indo food at last! after like 4 months!
-prepare for our most adventurous trip to Bergen
-took night bus to Sogndal
Sogndal :
-Sogndal is a small city near to Sognefjord. the reason I went there is to see the norway fjords! but that town is totally closed because of easter! nothing is opened, no one is around seriously!
-arrive at 5am, freezing...took a shelter at a hotel lobby
-brush teeth and wash face at deserted public toilet near the ports
-walk around the city only to figure out that NO ONE is around (until like 10am)
-back to our camp (a waiting room near the port) to have snack and prepare for hitchhike
-hitchhike to Balestrand (another small town near Fjord)...this is amazing, at first we thought that we gonna need at least an hour to get hitchhiked but it turned out we only need 5 mins...it's like the 5th car that we tried and they stopped! so lucky! we havent even stopped laughing (because hitchhiking is quite embarassing, everyone look at you, pointing at you, without stopping their cars haha, but it's so fun! we laugh bact at them hahaha). We hitchhiked the car of a Norwegian couple Leif and Katherine, apparently Leif is an artist who sells paintings about the Fjord to tourist. They're very nice! So lucky
Balestrand :
-enjoy the great view of Sognefjord! Seriously Norway Fjord is amazing!!
-walked around the small town to port
-need to wait around 3 hours for the ferry to bergen but NOTHING is open and it's freezing outside! We took a shelter, sitting in front of closed grocery shop on the floor with newspaper, just like homeless people.
-2 american backpackers (Evans and Patrick) came over, apparently they were also waiting for the ferry. yeah made new friends again :D
-took the ferry to Bergen! The view from the ferry is amazing!!! I really love Norway fjords! But everyone says it'll be more beautiful during summer,damn it!!
Bergen :
-arrive at bergen, had dinner, met up with Jan, sleep
-Jan brought us to see around Bergen, small but a lovely city
-visited small viking church and Bryggen, one of UNESCO world heritage sites
-hiked one mountain in Bergen, great view from the top!
-go home to Stockholm T_T
This trip is really a great experience for me. Other than visiting new places, I also met a lot of new people and had great time with them. In total visited 9 places (yeah some only for a few hours) and met around 30 new people I guess. Spend quite much though...around 7000sek incuding everything..but anyway, this is much better rather than sitting in front of the computer in the office..
Ah...cant wait for my next trip to Rome in May (but it's only for 4 days)
Bergamo :
-arrive at 12am
-sleep at airport (on the floor!)
-took train to Venice via Brescia
Brescia :
-walk around for 1.5hours in brescia
-found credit suisse office here (doh) haha
-continue train journey to venice
Venice :
-after 3-hour train journey, arrive at venice
-walk around venice, still carrying my whole backpack there
-took the vaporetto to get around venice
-visited St.marco cathedral, went to the museum and roof
-visited grand canal and that famous rialto
-1 hour bfore my train to milan, took vaporetto to a quite far island of venice, almost missed my train but luckily get back on time
-took a lot of great pictures in venice! lovely city!
Milan :
-meet up with Sandro, was brought to dinner to one of the posh area in Milan, Brera. nice tiramisu!
-networked with 4 Bocconians (2 alumni and 2 finance and marketing undergraduate), 1 NUS alumni (can u believe i met her in Milan?!), 1 trader. Haha good networking experience
-club at Milan. yeah baby, my first clubbing experience in europe was in milan, capital of nightlife haha! went to Just Cavalli, supposedly the most famous club in Milan (at least it's at travel guide book everywhere)
-didnt sleep at all that night
-plan to catch a train to go skydiving but was late. dont want to catch the next train as it's quite late
-continue sleeping until 2pm
-went to duomo! it's a perfect day that day with sun and 24 degree! love milan!
-went to castle
-stroll around milan city centre
-dinner at chinese restaurant with the guys
-learn insights abt doing business in Italy, esp private equity from Sandro. learnt a lot from him :D
-shop at Milan's Orchard Road (forgot the name of the street, was it Venice?), bought nice bags and sandals at Zara for EUR6.9 bcause the cashier gave me wrong change....where it's supposed to be EUR36.9
-took a bus tour around milan bcause my feet could no longer bear the pain T_T
-go to bergamo 5 hours bfore my flight to paris
Bergamo :
-took a short bus trip to Bergamo city centre and top hill. Nice view. Should spend more time there next time I visit it again (soon)
-fly to Paris
Paris :
-arrive at midnight, a bit scared in the metro because a lot of black people and it's midniht
-couldnt use the metro ticket so at the end i just jump over the gate to enter the station
-first day take a bus tour around paris. pass thru trocadero, eiffel tower, champs elysses, invalides, arc d triomphe and many other touristic sites. planned to go up eiffel tower but too crowded so decided to give it a pass that day.
-went to la defense, the modern part of paris.
-watch movies (shutter island) at la defense
-go to bar near Pantheon to meet up with Magali's friend = Gauthier and Chloe
-climb up the stairs of eiffel tower (i bought the wrong ticket which does not include elevator..so must use STAIRS to climb...oh my feet)
-had nice lunch with view at eiffel tower (cost me damn EUR20.5)..but anyway...
-went to Louvre, spend some hours there, disappointed with small Monalisa, I expected it to be much larger
-went along the Seine banks, so nice!
-went to Montmarte, almost cried T_T cause remember of one movie
-took random bus to get around Paris
-went to Versailles, successfully sneak in without paying hahaha but it was raining outside so didnt go to the park T_T
-went clubbing at Mix Club, Mont Parnasse. Seriously Paris club lives up to its name!! Had a lot of fun there! Magali, Chloe and Jennie totally rocked my night!
-went back from club at 3am, must walk to go back to where I stayed (which is near Eiffel tower)...so I went to eiffel tower at 3am hahaha, Paris at night quite scary though, not a lot of people..
-the last day, have dinner with Yejin and her friends at French bar, eat cheese (yes CHEESE) for dinner...arghh..and it's quite expensive
-took the first train to go to Beauvais airport to catch my flight to Oslo
Oslo :
-met up with Sara and Mbak Yuli, Mbak Yuli brought us around Oslo
-visit the famous garden (forgot its name) where there are a lot of nude sculptures
-visit the ski place, didnt ski though
-had dinner at mbak yuli's place! Indo food at last! after like 4 months!
-prepare for our most adventurous trip to Bergen
-took night bus to Sogndal
Sogndal :
-Sogndal is a small city near to Sognefjord. the reason I went there is to see the norway fjords! but that town is totally closed because of easter! nothing is opened, no one is around seriously!
-arrive at 5am, freezing...took a shelter at a hotel lobby
-brush teeth and wash face at deserted public toilet near the ports
-walk around the city only to figure out that NO ONE is around (until like 10am)
-back to our camp (a waiting room near the port) to have snack and prepare for hitchhike
-hitchhike to Balestrand (another small town near Fjord)...this is amazing, at first we thought that we gonna need at least an hour to get hitchhiked but it turned out we only need 5 mins...it's like the 5th car that we tried and they stopped! so lucky! we havent even stopped laughing (because hitchhiking is quite embarassing, everyone look at you, pointing at you, without stopping their cars haha, but it's so fun! we laugh bact at them hahaha). We hitchhiked the car of a Norwegian couple Leif and Katherine, apparently Leif is an artist who sells paintings about the Fjord to tourist. They're very nice! So lucky
Balestrand :
-enjoy the great view of Sognefjord! Seriously Norway Fjord is amazing!!
-walked around the small town to port
-need to wait around 3 hours for the ferry to bergen but NOTHING is open and it's freezing outside! We took a shelter, sitting in front of closed grocery shop on the floor with newspaper, just like homeless people.
-2 american backpackers (Evans and Patrick) came over, apparently they were also waiting for the ferry. yeah made new friends again :D
-took the ferry to Bergen! The view from the ferry is amazing!!! I really love Norway fjords! But everyone says it'll be more beautiful during summer,damn it!!
Bergen :
-arrive at bergen, had dinner, met up with Jan, sleep
-Jan brought us to see around Bergen, small but a lovely city
-visited small viking church and Bryggen, one of UNESCO world heritage sites
-hiked one mountain in Bergen, great view from the top!
-go home to Stockholm T_T
This trip is really a great experience for me. Other than visiting new places, I also met a lot of new people and had great time with them. In total visited 9 places (yeah some only for a few hours) and met around 30 new people I guess. Spend quite much though...around 7000sek incuding everything..but anyway, this is much better rather than sitting in front of the computer in the office..
Ah...cant wait for my next trip to Rome in May (but it's only for 4 days)
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