Photo Diary: Windsor Castle
Took a short trip out to Windsor Castle one day while my parents were visiting. Its just a train ride away from London! The Queen was there too (she was there when we visited the Buckingham as well),...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Occupying Frankfurt.
After our short stop at Koln and Bonne, our next stop for Germany was Frankfurt. First thing that came to mind would be Frankfurters, those yummy sausages. Other than that, I don’t know anything about...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Churches, towns and bridges.
Visits to St Paul’s Church, St Bartholomew’s Cathedral and Saint Catherine’s Church. The atmosphere within the churches are ever more sombre as it was the week leading up to Good Friday. The churches...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: First meals in Germany
Oxtail soup, that was really really really salty. Could barely finish half of it! First roasted pork leg! The meat was rather tender and the potatoes were yummy, but still rather salty. Pork escalope...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Al Fresco in Frankfurt
Playing with beer mustaches before the food arrives. Sorry for the yellowness in the picture, we were dining alfresco and the only light available was from the street lamps which drowned everything in...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Roaming round Munich
Munich, our last stop for Germany. Most of sightseeing attractions in Munich are clustered around the same area so it was really easy getting around. On the first day we covered almost everything...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Grandeur in Residanz Palace
Residanz Palace is the former royal palace of Bavarian monarchs, showcasing architecture decorations and styles from the neoclassical epoch. Apart from furniture, paintings and sculptures, there are...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Merry Beer in Hofbräuhaus, München
Hofbräuhaus am Platzl is one of the largest and oldest beer halls in Munich, apparently it can house up to 5000 people at one go. It was actually one of the beer halls used by the Nazi party to...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Summer begins in Annecy.
Having grown up in the tropics, I could never truly appreciate the notion of summer. Where I come from, its summer all year round, complete with abundant sunshine and immense humidity. I dreamt of...
View Article2012 in Retrospection.
2012; Where do I even begin summing up this year? On the first day of 2012, I was filled with trepidation and dread, waiting to leave for London in just one day and living out my dream of studying in...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Hakodate, Hokkaido.
This blog has been really stagnant for quite sometime. Its a little sad, because for the past few posts, I have been beginning with a similar statement. I remember, last year this time, I was avidly...
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