**PS: 120 photos to come - you have been forewarned =)
gonna head over to cologne and berlin for this weekend so i'm rushing to blog everything about this week before i take another round of photos heh.
anyway, wanwei and i went to a beer garden in the city centre to catch the live screening of the germany vs croatia match just now with our friends and sadly germany lost 2-1 but the atmosphere was totally worthwhile. =D everyone was super high and they sang and sang songs after songs. lol! more on this later.
now for the happenings for the entire week starting from last saturday:
First stop: tubingen
nice house
neckar river - was rather disappointed cos it looked so murky, but the riverside scenery is quite good still
always in time for a picture or two =)
downtown tubingen - flea markets galore!
veges, fruits etc
i bought this homemade strawberry jam from this kind elderly man. =D
cool car. their cars here are generally small in size - i think to consume less petrol. haha
reached the castle!
we started getting quite high with peisin and yvonne, so we took lotsa pics while perching on the edge of the walls. one look down and i never wanna climb up again
back on safe ground
interesting windows
some random facts i found
someone actually stays here
popped over to burladingen in search of the elusive birks. it was so misty and freezing COLD there. i think i'll sweat buckets when i come back to SG haha
plus it was raining. =( the four of us were screaming the whole time there while trying to ask for directions to the factory store. haha
and we found it!!! but they don't have all the designs, though the prices were quite attractive.
sooo tempted to buy one (one strap birks is abt 55 SGD, three straps 70+) but eventually gave up because if i were to buy i have to order as they don't have the design i want. but i'm going to berlin to check out more outlets!
it's like genting
took a train down to Freiburg and managed to squeeze 4 people into a 2 person hotel room. heh. and it's right beside the train station =)
we caught the portugal match on tv!
the next morning, strolling through freiburg city. no shops were opened cos it was a sunday (basically, no shops will open on sundays in the entire germany, if not europe. i wonder how they survive man. we couldn't, and were whining away cos we need breakfast
sweet
i love their street signs
they have little brooks running through the entire city, cool eh? haha
tram
red - i like!
cathedral in freiburg - massive!
couldn't catch the entire thing on camera
saw this along the streets - hahaha! people here love to vandalise
finally found some breakfast - at a mind-boggling price - 8 SGD for a piece of waffle?
head down to titisee, which was where i went during acjc's europe band trip 3-4 yrs ago! no wonder everything looked so familiar hahaha. this quaint little town really melts people's hearts because of all the nice buildings, easy pace of the residents and also the wonderful, amazing scenery they have of the black forest and a lake.
walking there from the train station
vast fields
having fun hahaa
this hotel looked so pretty!!!!
darlings - yvonne and peisin!
titisee lake!! i didn't realise how beautiful it is 3-4 yrs ago and this time round i had a good look at it =)
boats for rent to row out to the lake
quack
have-potential-to-be-facebook profile pic
YUMMY
okay this is gonna be a looonnnggg story. we wanted to try the most traditional way of rowing a boat, with oars and everything, so we decided to rent a sampan at 4 SGD per person for an hour (-_-) and ended up shouting and laughing when we tried to row it out of the shore. wanwei and i were the "captains" and yep, we have zero prior experience in rowing sampans so you can say that we were quite brave to do it AND without life jackets too! -_- i think they (the people who rented us the sampan) presume we know what we were doing (which we don't) so they sorta heck care us and yeah. hahaha we managed to row out to the huge lake with minor hiccups (wanwei almost dropping her oar into the water and me whining away about definitely drowning if this sampan should capsize. hahahaa we took photos and videos and waved to everyone in sight who were much cleverer (they chose paddle boats or motor boats) and in the end got back to the shore safely after an hour. phew!!! we even managed to park our sampan quite accurately judging that we had to park it while our backs were facing the shore. hahahaa
my oars
the adventure of a lifetime - i still can't believe we didn't have life jackets and ALL our stuff (cameras, phones etc) were with us.
but it was fun lah =D
back on shore
the lake is super huge and super deep man O.o
pretty clock house
we spotted another vast field!
rushed down to triberg, our last stop of the trip
ulu pandan place haha
downtown
home to cuckoo clocks!!
we checked out the waterfalls
it was raining (again) and very colddd
steep slopes
swings!
we tried the authentic black forest cake!!!! the cherry liquor was so strong and i could even smell the alcohol way before eating it haha
our day pass =) only about 14SGD per person heh
back in stuttgart and they were showing the score lines for the euro matches haha
On Monday:
we went to esslingen after our morning german class! =)
look at the thing sticking out
its this haha
wanwei and i climbed this long flight of stairs to go up a bridge and had a beautiful view of the town =)
pretty flowers!
self camwhoring
saw some almost-high-raised apartments
i love the colours here =)
decipher this
climb climb
looks like fort canning hill
trying some sky-shots
we are flying~~
that's me flying
wootttt!
bye bye esslingen!
bought germany related cap and garland to support them in the euro 2008!
some place near our house. cool eh, arsenal platz haha!
random sign
Our host mom brought us to a farm few days ago!!
quack
moo
MOO
baby cow (what do u call it?) awww
our host mom, petra, talking to the cows haha
sheep trying to eat wanwei's pants
i look happy XD
feeding time
horses!
we went to the fields near our house
prettyyyy
that's me at the far end admiring the fields
lovely skies
i want it all! =D
haha
on an excursion trip to stuttgart airport during our architecture class:
these tree-like structures hold the roof panels up
explored the hotel nearby
interior
kelvin the hongkie, nurul and ww!
funny doors
explored their expo-looking halls
and we went to a beer garden near our house after that! =) caught the portugal vs czech republic match. it was awesome!! portugal played really well =D =D
beers!
screen
oh this is the place we went =)
ole ole ole!!
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