DAY ELEVEN

Yay salzburg! Mozart's birthplace and this was where they filmed Sound of Music. Sadly, the town has become rather commercialised so it lost a little of its natural beauty. There were alot of Mozart stuff and stalls there. I bought Mary-Anne's souvenir from there :D



Sorry, my brother is the king of pigs.






Pretty garden.



After we left salzburg, we took a whole day drive to koln, Germany. We spent the night there at the ibis hotel (:

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The horse carriage. The horses were damn huge by the way.


A picture perfect ending to the day.

We had dinner at a petrol station stop. I had eine kleine spaghetti carbonara und parmesan. We managed to drive to salzburg where we checked into an ibis hotel.

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DAY NINE

So we woke up and had a great breakfast. We left Germany and drove through Switzerland. We stopped at a petrol pump and played with snow at its backyard.
Right, why is my grandpa attempting to eat the snow!?
Yes, its just a blanket of white there.

Hahaha preparing to throw a snowball at my sister!

Then we dropped over at the sempacher lake to take photos.

Yay then we stopped over at another highway stop for my dad to take a break from driving for hours on end. Here in singapore, Marche is some branded super expensive and high class eating place. In Germany, its just a convenience store.

Love the Christmas tree, its real by the way.

Oh look, do we have this dustbin in singapore?

Looks as if this whole place has been imported into singapore aye?

Then we drove to schaan, lieichenstein. We couldn't find a suitable hotel there so we drove again to austria, feldkirch. We found da mario hotel. We had dinner there, they served italian food and it was good! My sister ordered the biggest plate of us all, what a pig. This hotel didn't have individual toilets in each room though. So we all had to bathe in a common bathroom and use a common toilet. I bathed with my sister cause we were both really scared.

At least we had a tap in the room




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DAY EIGHT

So we woke up in Saarbrucken and had a wunnerful German breakfast. Germany is great, the people here are really nice and NOBODY stares at our yellow jacket. After 2 and a half years of waiting, i've finally got a chance to practise my German only to find out that the people here are just as fluent in English as they are in German. How bilingual. Ha! The french have alot to catch up on, bleh -sticks out tongue at them.

After breakfast, we drove to Heiderburg where we found the ruined castle, I don't know its name. It was destroyed during the bombings during WWII.

I'm not sure if you can see that the building has collapsed somewhere infront.

Okay look at the collapsed thingy. Saddening, it was such a beautiful castle.

Hahaha the British like red while the Germans like yellow :D
I don't know whats that.
Oh look ancient herbs!
Up on the castle grounds.

The view from the top, beautiful aye?

Anyway after the castle thingy we drove to another town, Karlsruhe. We found hotel Aviva. It's a really new hotel and is actually damn high class. But my mum managed to get a good discount since we are their VERY FIRST customer. wow right? I loved that hotel the most. They provided free nail files! Which I didn't know how to use, but whatever.

Two single beds which my brother, sister and I slept on.



My parents bed.



So then we had Macdonalds for dinner again. And then we came back to the hotel while my parents went to drive around in search for a launderette. Here's what you get when the big brother takes too long to bathe and leaves two sisters in the room with a camera whilst they wait for him to get out of the bathroom.

Playing with the camera timer.


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DAY SEVEN

So we woke up in Paris and the hotel didn't provide breakfast. We took the train to the same shopping centre as yesterday where we had chinese food since its cheaper than any other food. The meal amounted to 70euros in total, daylight robbery. What's more, the place was supposed to be for chinese take aways so service was so so and there were barely enough tables for us to sit down and take our meal.

Some baskers in the train station. They sounded really good.

We then headed straight for the Louvre Museum. I wish we had spent longer there, but we were in a rush for time. We spent about 2hours there, only visiting Mona Lisa and the Egyptian collection.


These were taken outside the Louvre Museum.

Mona Lisa was tinier than I had imagined
No flash photography allowed. So I had to make sure I didn't smile too brilliantly, or I'll dazzle everyone else and get accused for flash photography.

I didn't understand the signs, and this sign was so tiny I didn't notice it. Which explains why we took half an hour to find Mona Lisa.





Ooooh looook she has his head on a platter, gruesome.




I like the feet.



Darn I forgot to rotate the picture.
I like the statue.

I like Egyptian mummies :D

Finally my family decided to get out of stupid France and we drove to Germany. I got a huge headache on the way there and threw up after dinner. We managed to check into Meran hotel where we stayed for pretty reasonable rates. The hotel had a really cool lift which had a manual door. It's one of those old fashioned lifts. Damn cool. I'll upload the video of it next time.

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