Friday, August 25, 2006

Roma

In Rome right now. Love it! Rome is awesome. Loads of place to see. Too bad I only have 2 days in Rome. Spent the first day killing my feet going to as many places as I can and see as many things as I can. Went to the Vatican city (St Peter's basilica), Colloseum, Palantine Hill, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, and some other sites that are very nice but not as popular. All that in a day by foot. By the time I get to the hostel, all I want to do is take a shower and sleep for 24 hours.

Today is the second day. I planned to go back to Vatican to see the Sistine Chapel and then take the train to Pisa to see the tower. But it's raining, so I spend the time to check my email and post instead.

Monday, August 21, 2006

Travelers

One of the good things about traveling alone is that you get to meet a lot of people. You usually don't meet as many people when you travel in groups because you tend to stick with the group. This is what so nice about traveling alone. Of course there are times where I wish I have a friend to go and share the moment, but I wouldn't be able to take as many pictures if I had gone with a friend or two as they won't wait for me to get everything perfect.

As I told you before, I met loads of people during this travel. Most of them are Australians. They are everywhere. I'm surprised to see how many people traveling for a long time. I've met quite many people doing 5, 8,or 11 months traveling. Some even plan to travel for more than a year.

I met this guy named Raymond from Melbourne. He has been traveling for 11 months straight, has been to 26 countries so far and has spent thirty thousand dollars. This is fascinating to me. At first I was like: "Wow! I don't think I can ever do that. I've only been traveling for less than a month and no matter how much I love to see these new gorgeous places, I also miss sleeping on my comfy bed, having 24/7 internet connection, wearing clean clothes, etc." (Right now I can't really stand the heat anymore and I desperately need good bath, clean clothes and full body massages. I also can't stand carrying the luggage from place to place.) But the more I think of it, the more I feel challenged to try. I do wonder if I can do such thing. It would be awesome. Will be super tiring for sure, but definitely will be awesome. That way I can stay in one place as long as I need to see the whole place. Hmmm... We'll see about that in the future. First I need to make shit loads of money first. As for the places to go, I dont think to think about them. I got too many in my minds for this lifetime already.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Santorini


Hi all,

I'm in Santorini Island at the moment. It's a beautiful Island in Greece known for the amazing sunset. Stuck here for a few days longer than I expected because it's super holiday here in Greece and everybody goes back at the same time unfortunately. But Santorini is beautiful, I don't mind staying here a bit longer. Although this means that my stay in Italy will be shorter. Only have about 4 days for Italy if everything goes as planned. That sucks a lot, but oh well. I'll try to make the best out of it.

Greece so far has been interestingly different. The elevator/lift is bizarre. It don't have extra door that close so you can see the doors and walls doing down when you go up. A bit freaky at first. One thing that I'm not so fond of is that the fact that everybody smokes here. But what interesting about it is that instead of buying the ready to smoke cigarette, the buy separate things and make it their own. They said it's for economical reason.


In Santorini, people walk a whole lot. Most of the time it's up and down the hill. A lot of houses are up on the hill so you have to go up the hill by foot cos most of the time it's not accessible by car. I'm pretty much sick of it by now. I miss my lazy lifestyle where I drive just to go to the shop around the corner.

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Greece

Hi all,

I'm in an internet cafe in Athens, Greece. I'm just gonna make a quick post.
I've been to Paris - Barcelona - Madrid - Athens so far. So far everything has been fantastic... A couple of days ago was my friend Li Hua's wedding day. I'm so happy for her and Juan.. Gong xi ni men.. :)
I spent the my first day in Greece sleeping. So damn tired. Hadn't had proper sleep in 3 days. That night I was talking to my friend Maria Zeppou, her sister and her friend when we saw an amazing shooting star.. It was so damn bright. Just beautiful. Hope my wish(es) will come true... hehehe...

OK, that's it for now. I'll post something again soon I hope. Ciao...
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