Food and Travel Overseas [1] 2008 (Vietnam, Germany)

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Vietnam

Germany

Great way to store travel and food memories from the year 2008 onwards.

VIETNAM

♥ Ho Chi Minh (May 2007)

a) Durian time in Ho Chi Minh. Most importantly was to take fun photos during the eating session.

b) The food in the restaurants were finger-licking good. Each dish had lovely presentations. Thanks to all the funny and extremely easy-going friends who made this trip a very memorable one in my life!

GERMANY

♥ Dresden (Sep 2008)

a) The first fast-food restaurant that I went to for my first Europe trip with the tour agency, Super Travel, in 2008 after landing in Frankfurt Airport. We stopped on the way to eat before proceeding to the first city of the day, Dresden.

The fast-food restaurants in Europe generally have a building by itself, nicely decorated and not many people inside. It is considered expensive to eat fast food (but still cheaper than the restaurants) because you pay the same price in Singapore except that the currency was in Euro.

Say S$ 6.50 a set meal in Singapore is equivalent to € 6.50 in Europe. You dun expect better quality food for the price that you pay because they are mostly tasteless. I think Singapore fast-food restaurants can make tastier fast food. We went to Mcdonald and the competitor, Burger King, was just around the corner.

b) I secretly snapped a photo of this German lady when the coach stopped during traffic light. She was eating +AN EXTREMELY HUGE+ burger which kind of amuse me and made me feel like puking at the same time because I just had my breakfast from Macdonald (from the previous photo) that morning.

Rationally speaking, Germans are tall and big sized people so the size of the burger fit nicely into the big stomach of these people. Feeling a bit ‘suaku’ at that time because I had never seen big burgers before other than Singapore Big Mac! The size of the burger was probably 3 to 4 times more than the usual burger.

c) My first hotel in Dresden,  Europe – Fun Hotel. It has a very tranquil environment and I love it. What’s more, there was a sunlight view from my room which was very nice!

d) Sightseeing in Dresden

e) How the city Dresden looked like before it was completely destroyed during World War II. Most of the buildings today are completely rebuilt with a new face.

f) The horse was peeping at me while I stood there for some time taking photographs of them.

♥ Heidelberg (Sep 2008)

g) This is one Heidelberg castle that escaped from the brutal attack during World War II. Most parts of the castle were mostly preserved.

h) Part of the castle were blasted off as shown.

i) The view from the castle.

j) This could be a new building constructed after WWII judging from its beautiful and more modern architecture inside the castle.

♥ Berlin (Sep 2008)

k) Many Chinese or Asian restaurants in Europe embellish their interiors with lots of Chinese ornaments much more than the humble Chinese restaurants in Asia. Most of them have divine furnishing.

l) When I walked around the street in Berlin, I really thought I was back home in Singapore. Why did they look exactly the same??? The flats in Berlin looked like the 80’s flats in Singapore.

m) The infamous Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to prevent citizens from communist East Germany from fleeing into the city of the democratic, capitalist West Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the German reunification fall the Wall in November 1989.

n) A very cute looking Velotaxi in Sony Centre. I assume the taxi would not be used during winter as no one would want to expose themselves to the cold like this.

o) Sony Centre has a lot of very unique and creative buildings in its modern vicinity which reflects the advancement of technology of the Germans. The building is just one of them.

p) When I first saw the name, ‘Berlin Zoological Garden’, I wondered naively how could this building ever look like a zoo inside since it was my first trip to Europe too. Later I realised it was a railway station.

q) We were told not to take any photographs by the tour guide but I discreetly took one photo of the US Army Checkpoint in Berlin. We were again warned no photo-taking are allowed when we reached the checkpoint between Germany and Poland. With the widespread use of the internet, I doubt this could be controlled.

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