ROME day 2

16 Euros for a touristy bus which allows u to hop on and off whenever you like at all the places of interest. Sounds like a good deal.. with explanation in many languages somemore..


First stop, a river with a tiny island in it..


Piazza del Popole. can't rem the history of it.. didn't spend too much time there


Spanish STEPS! one of the romantic spots..
too bad there were too many people on the steps, hardly any space to walk.
We didn't climb the steps at all.. :O(


Trevi Fountain.. it's magnificent! the combination of sculptures and water..
we each threw a coin in the fountain and made a wish... :O)


VATICAN! our favourite! so amazing when we first see it on the bus.. surreal

ROME day 1

A final picture before we set off for ROME early in the morning!
of cos not forgetting to eat our final delicious donut before going!



will never forget this...
carrying our heavy bags, we took the bus to the train terminal.
we have the ticket with us but we didn't convalidate it (insert it into the machine to show when we start taking the first bus).
3 bus conductors came and we were being fineD!!!!
supposed to be 34euros each for 6 of us. they being "nice" fined 2 of us instead and we shared the cost.. 11 euros each!... ARGH... WE BOUGHT THE TICKETS... so dumb!

Shaking off the despair, we arrived at ROME...




Rome is totally enjoyable as well. The streets are more orderly than Napoli definitely, and every corner u turn, there is something new to see! AMAZInG!
so, one is constantly amused as he/she walks along the streets of ROME!


Whenever we walked till too tired, it will be silly posing time!




COLOSSEUM! ok.. we can proclaim that we come ITALY before liao!
we joined in the long long queue to get into the colosseum.. 11 Euros..






sitting by the colosseum waiting for dinner time to come.. :O)
i totally love the colosseum ring!!! 75 Euros!
ha.. buy me one and i will marry u for 1 day.. haha


Colosseum by night.. test of camera and photography skills.. ha
some smart indians start selling tripod beside the colosseum. haaa..


Too much to absorb for 1 day.. but no time to lose! more to come tml as we take the tour bus!!!

NAPOLI day 2

We woke up all excited to eat our breakfast..
I ate the best donut in the whole world! warm and soft in the side!
free flow of cereal, milk and coffee!

Today's agenda was to go to CAPRI ISLANDS!
An island off the coast of Naples. I figure that it is where the rich italians buy a holiday house here and stay over the holiday. VERY STUNNINGLY PRETTY...
BREATHTAKING..



We took a boat ride (10Euros?) around the island to visit some caves...
the caves have some blue light coming beneath the water..
the boatman was explaining that it is due to the rocks not resting on the bed of the sea and thus allow the sunlight to be reflect upwards creating these blue waters.



After nuahing thru the boat ride, we climbed up the capri island to find the centro of it , where all the shops are... we climbed and climbed...

and finally... :O)
realised the people here love lemons a lot.. a wide variety of lemon produce..
from lemon wine, to chocolate, to sweets, .. all kinds..


1,2,3,4 ... ha.. consecutive poses everywhere.


Last look at beautiful capri.. i wan to come here again!


Visited Naples itself a bit before leaving the next day..
Went to watch a procession cos it's Easter! interesting..


tired but still high spirited, we planned for Rome and went to sleep.. :O)

NAPOLI day 1

After 10 hours of travel on a train, trying all kinds of sitting and lying positions to fall asleep, we finally reach NAPLES!
First impression, a very very messy city with lots of people and vehicles and confusing streets. We felt unsafe.

Upon reaching the hostel, we are relieved! It was small and cosy and friendly staff.
View from the hostel and getting ready to go Pompeii!


Along the way to Pompeii, we passed by a church and there we start our camera's engine, busy clicking non stop...


Pompeii is a place of interest near the city of Naples 45 minutes bus ride, characterized by its vast land of ruins. It was originally a village till it was being drowned in a volcanic eruption. There are bodies in the ruins (in its original posture)which was still perserved by the volcanic ashes. (this is my own understanding, haha.. may be wrong)










Both of us was lost from the pack who went to see the bodies without us!
So we kept ourselves busy by taking photos once again.. haha



i can't emphasize and illustrate how large the ruins area were..
We jus kept walking and walking..
Though it's jus a land of ruins, all of us enjoyed ourselves thoroughly from this change of landscape, good weather and blue skies. haha.. how i wish i could see the village's original form with its true vitality and people..

FINALLY!!!

All our guests have just left and 4 of us rested at home today.
Have to catch up with some sleep and more blogging!
Our living room was packed to the brim with people for Norway, Sweden, London, Netherlands, Torino, Germany... Steffie, and bf, Jo, yanwei, oli, daniel, venetia, huiqian, tommy, kitty, munyee, yixian, joyce, sixiu and cindy... did i miss anyone? 15 plus 4.. 19...oooooo
Nice to hear the no-content speeches and carefree laughters once again..

wenxin photo of us.. cuddled in the living room with oli slping on the couch! :)
Thank you for coming to visit! haha.. maybe not us but the Fair but who cares!


Ok.. take a deep breath as i start recapping what happened in our Easter trip to Naples and Rome! 12 GB of pictures altogether! Enjoy... :O)

more ridiculous episodes in Begonia

SCENE 1
One day Meihua was eating a salad...
Hueyying washed the leaves, i chopped the leaves.
Meihua was happily eating until she met a slimy slug in her bowl!!!

ha.. we decided to adopt this slug which was swimming in the salad sauce.
We prepared a container for it. some leaves for it..
gave it a name.. called "chen chen"... using Meihua's surname.
and decided to wash it out of the salad sauce..

that's when i drowned Chen chen ...
our 2 minute pet... it died...
We didn't believe..
We left it there .. expecting it to move again..
It turn black and hardened....
This is Chen Chen...


SCENE 2
Our search for new pasta sauce..
Pesto sauce.
Meihua wanted to try it from Day 1.
A green sauce made of spinach i think..
Not too bad.. not too fantastic either..



SCENE 3
At 9pm one night, I decided to bake...
Searched for a scone recipe and started mixing hard butter into flour.
beat eggs and mix in milk and start kneading.
9.45pm, i started rolling the dough into balls and shoved my balls into the oven.
10.30pm, the balls were ready..
we felt like we were in Popeyes...
i think i got a talent for baking..
they never say my cooking is good.. they finished my scones...
so i think my baking is good.. ha... i don't care.

a day at melegnano

A module about agriculture in Milano forces me and Yanling to go into the
countryside of Milano to take photos of the current situation.
The brief is to design a Service system to link the city and the countryside together.

saw some beautiful buildings which appear abruptly out of nowhere.
stunning scenery and animals..
went to a farm which sells fresh milk!