TRIP TO EUROPE - 6 COUNTRIES

ALHAMDULLILLAH- My Dream Comes True

Since my working days, I have set-up in my mind that one day I want to go abroad to visit the european countries such as London, Paris etc etc. Alhamdullillah with the God's blessing my dream comes TRUE.

My trip started from 29/4/2013-13/5/2013 to cover 6 countries such as Germany, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Belgium, Paris and London.  Depart KLIA airport for Frankfurt, Germany  around 9pm and transit at Abu Dhabi airport about 2am....lepak kat airport for almost 2 hrs, proceed with the connecting flight to Frankfurt, safely arrived at 8am next day. Weather forecast was at 17 d celcius....sejuk !!

ABU DHABI - Transit

  2am at Abu Dhabi...sempat posing walaupun ngantuk

FRANKFURT, GERMANY

Just arrived at Frankfurt almost 8am local time

Outside the airport waiting for the bus

After breakfast, started the sight seeing around Frankfurt town, Heidelberg and Viernhiem. Check in and spent a night in Viernhiem.

In Heidelberg town

The Registration Office at the back - Heidelberg

Double deck

Next morning, left Germany for next destination....Titlsee Lake located at the southern part of Black Forest in Switzerland also known as the Titus Empire. By the time reaching this area, there was drizzling rain in the morning.

Part of the Titus Empire

The Old Castle

  Ladies in my group 

The entrance to the castle

One of the old bridge

My group

The toilet coin machine ...canggih kan

One of the stopping area for toilet!!

Due to cold weather, the bus stopped at R&R  several times for the toilet.

LUZERN, SWITZERLAND

Proceed the journey to the waterfall called Rheinfall of Scaffhausen....one of the largest waterfall in Europe, felt very impressed with the beautiful nature....amazing. 

Rheinfall of Scaffhausen

The waterfall at the back

Waterfall waterfall.....

Boat cruise to get closer to the waterfall

 Entrance to jetty for boat cruise

Back to hotel for a long rest.....

Breakfast at the hotel, bread, cakes, cereals 

Now ready to go to  Engelberg Valley for the SNOW....I love it, can't wait to touch it!!.  Ride a cable car to reach the Titlis Mountain at 3238 ft above the sea level.  Such a wonderful moments over here where I could see the Swiss Alps....back to my schooling time I learned about the Swiss Alps in my Geog subject, the old memories struck back in my mind....dulu mimpi about snow now snow in my hand....syukur alhamdullillah. 

The Titlis Mountain at the back..pakai baju 3 lapis sejukkkk

 The main entrance

Snow view from the cable car

Full of snow everywhere

Inside the Ice Cave....really cold

First touch of snow.... so excited!!!

  Holding a snow ball

WOW !!!...here I am

Posing habisss...local time 12noon

With mat salleh couple

Ladies in my group...1 2 3 jerit kuat kuat

Men in my group...1 2 3 jumpp

Showing our shoes or legs!!!

Inside the cable car way down the mountain

                                           Beautiful scenery by the mountain....cooling peaceful

Back to Luzern, Switzerland after halfday moments at Titlis Mountain. City tour of Luzern with our lady guide.  Passing through the wide spread of mustard farm along the highway, beautiful scenery etc.

 The mustard farm ...yellow colour

The Black Forest by the highway side

 Very peaceful view

 View along the highway....snowww on the mountain

The bridge

Building in Luzern

Purple leaves

CITY TOUR, LUZERN

Passing through the wooden Chapel Bridge across the Reuss River. The Chapel Bridge was entirely made of wood became one of the signature of Luzern.  Few years back in the history, the bridge was  caught by fire, parts of the bridge was destroyed by it. 

The painting on the ceiling of the Chapel Bridge

My sporty car...lost the key so just touch it!!

One of the building by the river

Couple of swams

 Comes across this veges & fruits stall

Wondering wether  fruits or flowers

 Shopping time at Bucherer famous for Swiss watches

Drizzling rain outside the mall

COCHOO OUTLET 
This place was famous for the making of the singing cochoo clocks. 

All ladies...one man tersesat!!

 The Cochoo Outlet

Outside the outlet

 The trademark of the outlet

 Beautiful view by the riverside

Waiting for someone?

Lunch break....had own lunch because no halal food around this area, makan atas tangga kesian!!!   Next proceed to the Crying Lion Monument.

Crying Lion at the back...sian

Our lady tour guide in the centre

Luzern map 

Back to hotel for another night stay.  

Outside the hotel early in the morning...already check out

        Waiting for the bus for PARIS!!

Check out from hotel and left Luzern for Paris for 6 hrs long journey. 

Stop for lunch at R&R..tapau pack lunch....no halal food

PARIS

Reached Paris about 5pm local time and check in to the hotel.....very very tired.

 One of the landmark in Paris

Another landmark

                                     
                                                         The Railway Station of Paris

                                                         Inside the railway station

An evening in Pariss
Despite of tiring journey from Luzern to Paris just after check in to the hotel, decided to go around the hotel area for a night view, passed by the railway station of Paris 

Outside the railway station

The Tube

Apartment cum shoplots

 Well beautiful apartment in Paris town....mahal tu!!

 Open concept of cafe bar by the river side

Wall Street Institute

 Paris full of monuments

                                                 

 Our hotel...Belta Hotel Residence

 Trying the metered bicyle

 The kebab & fries....halal for my dinner

Check in n rest .

Morning call for subuh pray then ready for city tour of Paris. 

CITY TOUR PARIS

 Part of the Parliment House

 Parliment House of Paris

 What a cute cars on the road

 Main entrance of the museum

What building ....ehh dah lupa la pulak

 Pintu Gerbang so big

 Halal restaurant in town

 All kinds of breads & sausage

  This is beriani rice..small portion of rice but full of fries, salad & scramble eggs

 Souveniers shop

Signage for cruise ride
After lunch spent time on cruise crossing the Seine River in Paris.

 One of the cruise

Doubledeck cruise

 Building by the river side

 Bridge over the trouble water

 Doubledeck Cruise

Another Cruise

 Eiffel Tower at distance

The tower by the river view

 The church

 The President Office

                                     

Another pintu gerbang

 The ancient building

Arc de Triomphe

One of the expensive shopping mall in Paris

Next morning proceed to the famous Eiffel Tower ready to join the crowds.....so excited.

 Welcome to the Eiffel Tower

 Parts of my group cold & windy local time about 8am  

Patong Gustave Eiffel - engineer of the Eiffel Tower

 On the 2nd level of the tower

Four angles of the foot tower

 View from the tower..Paris town

 Another view...a bit cloudy

 Garden of Eiffel Tower

End of the Eiffel Tower tour.

Next day perform solat at the Grand Mosque in Paris.    

 Inside the mosque

After solat

All ladies after solat

The entrance to the mosque

AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND

After 2 days in Paris, left for Amsterdam, Holland another 6 hrs bus ride. Check in and free & easy.

Next morning after breakfast, ready for a trip to Kuekenhof Tulip Garden, the largest tulips farm in Amsterdam. It was opened for the public/tourists from March to May because during this periods the tulips starts blooming, after that months the garden was closed. I can't wait to see the tulips!!

 Passing the town

 All the sweets

 The crowd in town

 Stop at the R&R

 So happy mcam budak22

Entrance to Keukenhof Tulip Garden

The lady with their traditional costume

 Red Tulips...here I am

Hide & seek behind tulips

 Pink Tulips

  

Tulips everywhere

                                      

 White Tulips

Orange Tulips

                                      

Purple Yellow Tulips

Purple Red Tulips

                                      

With mat salleh kids

River in the garden

Rows of orange white tulips

                                 

Three of us

 Tulips shop

Thinking of buying the tulips?

 My group

I didn't pluck the tulip... action only!!

WARNING ....tourists not allowed to pluck the tulips.

 The Windmill Replica 

By the fountain

After a day long spent at Keukenhof Tulip Garden, back to the hotel. On the way back to the hotel, stop at R&R for lunch...pack lunch again.

Everybody brought pack lunch....sembunyi2 masak kat hotel!!

Umpp sedapnya walaupun hanya maggi....local time 1.30noon

Yellow train in Amsterdam by the highway

One of the building in town

Another building with 2 chimneys

Tulip Farm.....bye bye bye

The direction to the garden

Infront of our hotel Dutelh Design Hotel

Hotel Lobby red deco

A staircase down to the toilet full of tulips

With our pilot....bus driver

Next day still in Amsterdam, visited the famous Diamond Centre...memang cantik but then fulus tak mengizinkan!!! tengok je le...cuci mata.

The entrance

 The crown full of diamonds....real diamonds tak tipu

One of the diamond craftmen at work

At the Damrak Square...the red word is AMSTERDAM in full

This area was one of the busiest road in Amsterdam Town, tourists gathered around here.

Going for the cruise ride

While waiting for the ticket

 Holding the steering

 
Inside the cruise

After the cruise ride, stop at this outlet for lunch...kebab and bread only

The signage entrance to the mosque

Welkom meaning Welcome

 Left the town centre for the Windmill Village, Cheese Centre and Wooden Shoes Factory.

 All kinds of wooden shoes on display

Listening to the demostration of shoe making

The worker shows his skills

The wooden shoes rack

 

The cheeese factory

 
 All kinds of cheese on display

In the shop

View of Windmill
Few hours spent at the Windmill Village then proceed to another town called Volendam or Fishing Village named by the locals.

Their house small but very cute

 Another house by the small river

Waiting for the house's owner

Cheese Factory Volendam....tak beli coz tak pasti halal/not

Their shipyard

Outlet of Doner Kebab....halal

With the gang
With the driver and tour guide before leaving Volendam Village back to the hotel.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Next left for Brussels, Belgium by bus. On the way stop at R&R for toilet ape lagi sejuk memanjang.

Posing by the Caravan side...teringin nak naik

Stop at R&R and jumpa benda ni.....DUSTBIN

 McDonalds restaurant along the highway

Reached Brussels Town and visited few places such as The Atomium, The Grand Palace and Mannekin Pls, the landmark of Brussels.

The Atomium...there were several offices in the round globe

I love Atomium

Welcome sign

 One angle of Atomium

 

 

Just 3 of us

5 of us...Beautiful ladies

Metered Bicyles for rent....anybody?
Then proceed to the place called The Grand Palace.

Parking area at the entrance

 Pintu gerbang besarrr

 

PinkTulips

 Ladies only

 Double deck

At the shopping mall

This is what they called the landmark of Brussels

Everybody smilesss

Lunch time...pack lunch again

Ummph  sedap sebab everybody hungry gila

Our pack lunch consist of sardine, serunding, bilis goreng etc from home. Just after we finish up our lunch, heavy downpour.....hujan so everybody run for shade.

 Clip clip bulps in the toilet...cantik

Tired of walking so duduklah...waiting for the bus.

By the evening left Brussels for London with all the heavy luggages to carry  heads towards the Midi Station, Brussels to board the Eurostar to London.  I felt very excited to experience the fast train onboard for about 2 hrs journey. Before departure, perform solat jama' magrib/isyak at the station, another sweet experience as wherever places passed by, solat comes first.....alhamdullillah.

Just arrived at the Midi Station

View in the station

The Eurostar Information Counter at the back

Hello KL ....anybody home?

Taken snacks only already onboard

Inside the train cafe

LONDON
Reach the St.Pancras Station, London

Dah sampai London

The St. Pancras Station, London

Inside view of St.Pancras Station

Information Board

Cafe

 Almost 10pm local time reached at the Holiday Villa for 3 days stay in London. The hotel was just a few meters from the Malaysian Hall....alhamdullillah I was in London already!!

Holiday Villa London

My room

 Front view of the hotel

One of the street, not busy because still early in the morning

 My group

 Alongside the hotel area

Beutiful building infront of the hotel

 My dream car...lupa bawak kunci daa

J30 PSG of London

 Letter box

This is my house...perasan!!

Staircase to my room

CITY TOUR OF LONDON
After breakfast ready for sight seeing of London such as Parliment House, Buckingham Palace, London Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Oxford Street etc.

 Public bus

Standing infront of Buckingham Palace

Unfortunely during a visit to this palace, it was the 1st day Opening Ceremony of the parliment so tourists not allowed to go nearby the gate of the palace....all closed to the public for the horse parade, so posing jauh2 je le.

The Palace compund

 With Kak Zi from Ipoh

 The women police

With Khatijah & Mahani from Penang

Jom follow me for a morning walk to the main street

Westminster Church
The wedding ceremony of Prince William & his wife was held overhere.

 
 The souveniers shop at the church

 Nearby the Trafalgar Square

 
The 3s of us

Showing our legs

 The old church

 The Big Ben far distance

Telephone booth one of trademark of London

Signage to the subway

The Big Ben of London

 The Eyes of London

The Parliment House by the riverside

Big Ben

The Parade in red

Horse Parade

Guardman on horse

The statue

 
The street was closed so lengang je

Doubledeck of London
  

By afternoon stop for lunch then went to Oxford Street for shopping....shopping time.  The bus driver drop us by the street and everybody made their own ways to the malls along the street, given 2hrs only for shopping.  As it happened to be the 1st day of parliment opening day, the street was so crowded with tourists as well as locals. I managed to purchase trench coat for me and jacket for my son...thats all.

Our lunch restaurant

So happy just after lunch

BAYSWATER - SHOPPING TIME

Infront of Bayswater Station

Back to hotel and by the evening went to Bayswater another landmark for shopping such as t-shirts, souveniers and many halal restaurant to choose too. It was just 10mins walking from our hotel, I spent quiet a lot for t-shirts, souveniers and perfume.

 BICESTER VILLAGE- SHOPPING TIME AGAIN

 
Next morning went to the famous outlet factory called Bicester Village away from London took about 2hrs to reach the place.  These outlets mostly offered all branded items such as handbags like prada, guess, LV, jimmy choo, shoes, shirts, perfumes etc with good bargain prices.

  At the Bicester Village

Still early not crowded yet

Clarks Shoes Outlet

 Gucci Outlet

 
Signage of Bicester Village

 Clarks shoes already in hand

CITY TOUR IN LONDON

 London Bridge

Tower of London
During our last day in London, went to the Malaysian Hall.

Malaysia Hall

DEPARTURE DAY
Left London for home sweet home.....bye bye London.

Heathrow Airport, Harrods Outlet

With Kak Zi at the airport

Alhamdullillah safely arrived at KLIA next day, now trench coat tak laku dah sebab KL panas!!!!

' THATS THE END OF MY HOLIDAYS TO EUROPE '