5 Fellas That Stole My Heart. Cinque Terre.

As of yesterday, I am finally FREEE from assignments! Well for the time being only of course. 

Finally got the mood to do something to my dying blog. 

I shall start with my favourite place of the trip, my mom's too. 

Cinque Terre.

It's a national park with 5 villages. 

Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola & Riomaggiore. 

So awesome that I wish to stay there forever.

Though we spent only one night here, it gave me memories that I will treasure for the rest of my life.  

We took a train from Milan interchanged in La Spieza, and to our final destination Corniglia.

There's walking paths that we can walk from one village to another. 

So we decided to do the one from Corniglia to Vernazza. 

It's about an hour and half of walking, the view along the way is simply amazing. 

We took a train to the remaining 3 villages, because we don't have enough time.

Pictures will do the talking, I didn't edit a lot of the pictures, because I am still figuring out how to edit pictures on Mac.
Yes, I suck in computers, but hey I am used to Windows okayyy.

 

This is by far the BEST spaghetti frutta di mare that I had. We were famished and tired, this came just on the right time.
I can still remember the taste of the sea while overlooking Manarola.

Found this cute little cafe giving out free wife and free wi-fi.

Cinque Terre is definitely in my must-return list. 

I remember every picturesque view, every taste, every smell, every breathtaking moments I had here. 

I still couldn't stop smiling whenever I thought about these 5 little villages. 

I felt genuinely happy, weird much?

Vandalism For Love. The Romantic Graffiti.

Verona, 

the things that I remember about this city:

Romeo & Juliet, 

The Arena, which looks like Colosseum, just a smaller version of it,

Ahh! And that double chocolate gelato.

Verona is famous for Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

We went to Juliet's house.There's a corridor right outside Juliet's House.

Lovers would draw graffiti all over the wall, the gate and even on the tiny machines that are supposed to show you the story of the famous pair.

 There's also a bronze statue of Juliet in the courtyard. 

Tourists would touch her right breast, they say it would bring good luck. 

Juliet's Balcony. This balcony is supposedly to be where Juliet cried out to Romeo. 

This is a must-do for couples here in Verona.
I need to find an Italian hottie to come with me next time. Tehee.

Look what I found. The union of China &Taiwan.

The Arena, a mini version of the Colosseum.

The streets of Verona. As usual, it has the unique beauty of Europe.

The market in Verona. They sell from fruits, veggies, masquerade masks and toys. 

Around the city of Verona.

The ancient red brick wall surrounding Verona.

Must-have #1 in Italy : Gelato!

Must-have #2: Cappu.

Can't Get Enough Of You

Til now, this is the fourth Venice that I had visited.

The first one was in Macau, The Venetian Hotel.
They have fake blue sky, Italian gondoliers that could sing pretty well and street performers.
It really made me curious, how does the real Venice looked like?

My question was answered when I went there for exchange.
The one I saw in Macau is definitely no match to the real thing.
It is so much more than the imitation in Macau.
Since then, I've always wanted to go there again.

Last year, I had a chance to visit Las Vegas.
I popped by at The Venetian Hotel. Yeap, there's another one in Vegas.
It is similar with the one in Macau, but a little more nicer.
Somehow I am not really impressed, unlike my first time seeing it in Macau.
I think I know why.

March 2011, I went back to Venice again.
This time it's with my family. We took a boat from Mestre to Venice.
The feeling is exactly the same from what I had 3 years ago.
Nostalgic.

p/s: It is mission impossible for me to upload more photos. Maxis Snailband is only giving me 0.05mbps. Gonna upload more when I have decent speed.
p/p/s: I accidentally deleted one of my albums in Picasa and all my blog photos went missing! Gonna re-upload them, if the speed is not killing me.


**UPDATED**

Do not be deceived by that sweet smile, she's evil!

The signature clock tower in Venice. The sky was so gloomy when we arrived.

The first thing we did was filling our tummy.

The bill. 50 euros for my mom & me. That's like RM200++!

Of course, we ordered like Queens! Too much apparently.

A friendly reminder. Don't do jump shots in Europe, people stares. But I don't care!


The carvings are simply marvelous. The sky turned clear blue after some rain. Thank you.


Basilica of St Mark in the Piazza San Marco. The building is an icon for 11th century architecture.


Murano glass. A beautiful product of the Venetian Island of Murano. It's shiny and colourful,
it caught my eye.


Palazzo Ducale or Dodge's Palace.


The photographer behind me ruined this picture!


Sitting in the corridor reminds me to slow down for a while to enjoy the perfect moment.


The gondolas. These darlings don't come cheap though.


Anybody needs to attend a masquerade ball? I bought one of these!


You will see this all over Venice.


I will return here someday, for the third time.

Venice, is a piece of art.