天使遺羽: October 2007

More Frankfurt! { Thursday, October 25, 2007

Due to complaints, i had decided not to b so lazy n should post more pics up here, after all, 2GB worth of photos, can't possible i only posted 6 for Frankfurt. So, i had chosen some more n put it here, n also re-post the previously posted pics, n arranged them in a chronological order in which i had taken them...

1st selt portrait attempt: Blurr

4th self portrait in the train: Slightly better (guess i will fail in photography if self portrait is one of the subjects)

Huge Haupbahnhof of Frankfurt am Main

A model of the old town of Frankfurt in the Haupbahnhof n u can actually play with it

See how early i woke up all becoz of the delayed flight? And that's wat i lost the most in during the trip

A view of the old town, at the side there is a cafe

Another view of the old town

Yes, the Frankfurt Dome! Under construction! (Note that this is the 1st building under construction i had seen in my trip)

Frankfurt Dome n a building in the old town

The sky didn't look that good already at this time

A view of the old town, this is the Town Hall, together with the previous 2 views of the old town, they actually formed a circle around a plaza, where there were some people cycling early in the morning to get to work!

Ah, the wind! n was it a smirk on my face??!

Now u can see the plaza!

Courtesy of a bench opposite the Town Hall.

Old town buildings at the front n modern buildings at the back!

Nice building i think

Pretty!

The nearest bridge to the old town. Every big city has its own river!

See this, i doubt any animal can actually swim on Malacca river!

A church viewed from the bridge!

The city view

Frankfurt Dome n old town viewed from the bridge too!

They even set up this to help the tourists to navigate their way to various spots of interest with their descriptions, see how good their tourism industry is!

The church

European countries do take care of the handicapped people! This is a lift for disabled people to get up the bridge, a really good service being provided to people who needed it!!

Description of the Town Hall!

Was ist das,kann das jemand lesen?

Ok, this statue was being removed, how unlucky, he's a famous person in German literature!

Yes, this is how my hostel in Frankfurt looked like. i'm sleeping on the top of the left double-decker...

ARE U COLD THERE??
9:29 PM

The Journey Began!! { Tuesday, October 09, 2007

It had been i think half a year this blog is left untouched, not updated, abandoned... maybe some of u might think it'll be the end of it like some of its kind...yet today, the blog is revived, with a story to be told...

well, just about a month ago, on 31st of august, we left manipal to bangalore enduring the 9hours of bumpy, jumpy, bouncing, roller-coaster drive...

in bangalore, wanna eat an italian buffet, which was in vain due to the wrong time n day that we arrived in bangalore...after that lunch,we headed to the airport str8, having seen the airport security questioning on Jeremy's SWORDS!and also the check in counter questioning me about my visa for my visit to germany (as expected from the airport of this country), and they also took some efforts to find the book that contains the info of countries n visas...so all i got to do was to wait n wait n wait...while the rest of the people were preparing for the battle awaiting them in sri lanka, drawing out strategies, armed with the best sentences they r gonna fire at those people...

reaching sri lanka, burning in the fire of rage n fury, the night counter officers were shot with continuous sentences, coming out non-stop from our warriors! in the end, everyone got his/her accommodation in sri lanka luckily, but unfortunately i can't join the rest...so followed another 2 indians, one studying in germany, another one going to study there to our hotel, the Pegasus hotel, which was 45mins away from airport, n situated at the beach...a nice resort, but the buffet didn't really have anything left when we arrived, so the waiter had the kitchen to fry some hotdogs n drumsticks for us...while the girl who was going to study in germany asking wat the hotdogs r, n wat they r made off -.-lll since she's a vegetarian, so i tried to eat as many as possible without showing i was hungry for hotdogs, so that it won't be a waste...when getting to my double room, yes, double room all for myself, it's already near 1am, n we got to gather down there at 3am...when i was just out of the shower, the receptionist called n said the flight was delayed by 2hours...so got to sleep for another additional 2hours...

My room in Pegasus

a bit blurr...since they were taken by hp (camera in check-in luggage at that moment)

once i got to airport n going to the boarding gates, it's already 6.40am, n the boarding room for KL flight had emptied...group of people was scanning our passport thoroughly while we were getting into the boarding room...it was 8.30am n yet the gate was not opened...then alot of passengers started to question the person-in-charge in the boarding room...eventually, something's wrong with the plane, but they can't figure out what's wrong -.-lll n said if 9.30am they still can't figure out, they will find another alternative ways (which i really had no idea wat it will be)...with a passenger shouting that he will never take the same airlines again n while others were obviously unhappy about the current situation, they announced that we can board the plane at about 10am, since they had found n fixed the problem...yes, we were going to board on a troubled plane T.T

in the end, reached Frankfurt 4hours late, means my day to visit Frankfurt completely gone, as it was already evening when i got there...bought a train ticket to Frankfurt Haupbahnhof (=main station)...but got down the wrong station at Frankfurt am Main Bahnhof, which is in the middle of nowhere, but with few nice houses opposite the station in this suburban looking area...another guy looked as puzzled as i was, he's from mexico, getting down at the wrong station like me, n in the end we got a german boy to help us to point out which station to get down...

out of the station, the most striking words on all the shop names opposite the station that i noticed was this "新世界大酒楼"...after deposited my stuff in the hostel just opposite the station, i walked around n found there r way too many chinese, indians, japanese n koreans restaurants that i doubt was i ever out of Asia!! n in the books n magazines stores in the station, u can find newspapers in various languages, especially japanese, chinese n koreans...n of coz, the bookstores have a shelf labelled "Erotika"...

next morning i got up at 7am, to visit some buildings in Frankfurt, since i lost the afternoon the day b4 n my flight to Athens is at 1.30pm...just look at the pics below...

1st attempt of self-portrait -- FAIL : Blurr

This is the Frankfurt Haupbahnhof, big huh??!!

Frankfurt Dome under construction!

Town hall in the center of the old city of Frankfurt!

Old buildings in front while the modern ones at the back! A contrast!

A church viewed from the bridge, while i was crossing it early in the morning without jacket n it's raining a bit!

ARE U COLD THERE??
8:53 PM