Lost In Beauty-

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

i am finally back home
i flew 12000km alone back to singapore with a 3 hours transit at Dubai
but that was after a 3hour train ride from Maastricht to Schipol airport with my 35kg luggages and changing of train once
i was lucky that a lady helped me with my luggage on the train or i would have missed my stop
so nice!
then a very friendly dutch talked to me when i was on another train to airport
friendly dutch ppl
i quite like netherlands

i was rather scared that after 5 months away from home i would feel weird and won't be able to fit back into my life before exchange but so far so good
seems quite normal
rh is like so big now! huge eyes, super active and likes to bite everything that he sees haha including yl's watch
so cute! i think he takes after me!:)
i gave him miffy (dutch rabbit) but he seems to be not interested in miffy:(
my luggage was super heavy because of all the stroopwaffle that i brought back! 17 packets in total, that's like more than 5kg!
and i realised that i bought alot of clothes from the time that i was in maastricht
they practically filled a new wardrobe so now i have like 2 wardrobes worth of clothes and i have to throw away some
but i was telling yl how i have very little clothes and he laughed at me:x

i am so proud of myself after this exchange
i think i have become much more independent
i will be able to survive by myself i think, not overly reliant on my parents
then i travelled alone in portugal for 2 days and survived taking airplanes and buses alone since jh takes train
i think next time i can go backpacking alone ( if yl doesn't want to go with me or nobody wishes to go with me)

i really love portugal (porto and lisbon)! for it's yellow and pink and colourful old houses
and narrow and steep cobbled stairs
and the way they hang their laundry on laundry lines out to dry
and basking on the streets
so full of character!

i was disappointed with madrid. it lacks character so in the end jh and me spent most of our time shopping there thus spending alot of money there=x

i love barcelona too! lovely old town. lovely la ramblas!

london is gloomy but harry potter studio is funnnnn=DD
then paris was nice as expected but this time i went to momarte and i love the place! even though it's a little like red light district
then marseille is so beautiful, the port has a really good view

me and jh were super careful and cautious and we used our (impt) money belts
hence we didn't get pick-pocketed nor did we get ambush by the blacks

when i have more money i will go to Turkey and other eastern europe countries like Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Malta
and i will go back to France, Spain and Portugal to backpack=)

the beauty exposed ;