Tanak balek Cork

Mak at Gare Du Nord

Yesterday we finally went to Bruxelles' town - the Grand Place. The place was again, filled with typical ancient Europe buildings with complicated architectures and monuments. We shopped for the last minute souvenirs and momentos for our trip.

Belgium is famous for its lace art. Disebabkan saya tiada bermampu untuk membeli kain-kain lace yang vogue the vast ittew, maka inilah hanya yang mampu saya beli. Secoet pon jaaaadilaah...

Interior house of my aunty's. Oh sangat cantek dan bebebeeesarr..

Grand Place. With extra tourist yesterday cos of some royal events..

Mom and Mak Semah at Backyard of her house. Again, sangat bebebebesar. Dayah, Cork Games agak2 tak de tempat, sini nak buat 2 padang pon boleh!!!

Souvenirs from the 3 places. Some for me some for the friends. I remembered puan Syazwani Md Sith ittew suka shell chocs ni so I got this for the girlfwens. And the small cushion is bought because of another Belgic famous tappestry. Struggle gile sumbat-sumbat okayh. My beg is overweight already. Donno what's gonna happen at the airport later...

Mak's flight to Amsterdam is at 8.10am and mine is at 10.10am. To not complicate things, I'll be following Mak early in the morning and menjadi penunggu sehingga lah masa saya on board. Then my flight from Dublin to Cork it at 1.30pm. That explains why I was posting this on 5am in the morning...

A heartiest gratitude goes to Mak Semah, Uncle Deeb and Amalin for the warmth hospitality and for being the greatest host of all. Ohhhh saya rase saya naik 10kg kerana diberi makan oleh Mak Semah dengan banyaknya. Kueytiow udang - done. Ikan (kat Cork SANGAT JARANG makan ikan) - done. Nasi kerabu - done. Nasi goreng bukan gune perencah - done. Ohhh sangat heaven. And I realized that I haven't been cooking for nearly a month already. Danggg...

And to Mak, safe flight and till we meet again in 3rd of June. Thanks and sorry banyak-banyak for the hasle and for not being fit enough to walk around banyak-banyak..

Hwaaaa.....tak mau balek Corkkoooooorrrroooooooooooooooooo.......

Been there. Done that!

Geneva-Zurich-Paris

Here are the pictures of my holiday..When I look back..oh sememangnya saya harus kembali menjejaki Paris...I was so not in mood for pictures hence explaining the lack of photos..

I am almost definitely not going to return to Switzerland. Cukuplah hanya sekali. Anyway I realised that attraction of Europe countries, from the point of view of someone who doesnt really give a damn about the historical values are the preserved bulding. If you look around at almost all of the countries, the ancient buildings are the dominants, unlike Malaysia who would go demolish everything and replace it with something we claim modernized. But for the sake of menjejakkan kaki ke smua negara...well...ok lah...

To see Malaysia becoming as tourist friendly as them...huerm...I doubt. Here in Europe, the public transport are very efficient and the map are fixed. You look back to 5-10 years ago the roads and landmarks are all the same but in Malaysia, in 5 years time you could see a lot of changes. But of course, people like me would definitely be rooting for Malaysia coz I appreciate the natural element like beaches and see a lot more than the static buildings who didnt meant anything to me..hee...

Next places up on the list - Paris to be revisited. Madrid & Barcelona, Italy and Czech Republic to meet CheNad and Ila. Lain-lain tempat belum terfikir lagi. Would love to visit Turki, Croatia, Morocco smua2 tu..

Me without crutches dan hidden oversized leg

The best view I could get. Tu la orang handicapped tokleh nak senget2 ke baring2 ke..terpaksa shoot dari jauh jee..
A dream come true- Eiffel

Eiffel - different angle

Eiffel - tatau ape dah caption

Weird drawing in Paris. Near Champ de Elysees.

Peminat Pink, boleh lah reconsider *note to self jugak. hahaha*

At Geneva. My mom takmo gi dekat2 tempat ni..cisss..shoot dari jauh sahaja

Swatch...heee..tgh pilih antara dua. Guess which one I took. Sape teka betul bleh dapat souvenir. lalala...

Snow raining in Geneva. Brrr....

Zurich.

Hotel kat geneva ade petunjuk arah kiblat. *kagum* kat Genting Highland pon tarak tau..

Ships In Geneva

Antwerp, Belgium

Went to Antwerp, Belgium yesterday. Took train from Krainem to Central Station and to Antwerp. It's a nice place. Nice shopping place to be exact. Soon after we arrrived had lunch at Hector, a halal KFC-like + Kenny Roger's-like restaurant. The food was kinda nice. Terubat rindu nk makan those food..Antwerp is also a diamond city. Sangat banyak and cantik but if u don't have at least thousand euro don't even think about it la kan...huu...

There are some familiar shops including H&M, Sports World, etc etc and also Greggs! I learned eating Greggs when I was in UK. The vegetarian pie is so nice. But since I'm in Belgium and the attraction is waffle so I went for the waffles instead of Greggs. Had 3 waffles yesterday! A plain one, with ice-cweam and with choc. By far the tastiest is the ice cream one. But I have not yet to taste the TRUE Brussels waffles..Haven't even went around the Brussels city yet....

Well mom is out to the market in Brussels but I didn't tag along as my leg is in bad state. Not quite sure how am I going to tour around Swiss & Paris since I think my leg is showing signs of protesting..and the pain had gone to the left leg coz I relied a lot on left leg yesterday when my right one is not strong enough.

I even bought a new flight ticket to go back to Cork. Initially my plan was to take train from Bruxelles to Amsterdam as my ticket is a direct flight from Amsterdam to Cork. But looking at my condition, mom asked me to buy a flight ticket from Brux to Amsterdam since I'll be facing lot of hassle bringing my stuff if I were to travel alone by train. Unfortunately the cheapest tix from Brux to Amsterdam is 300euro. Cehhh..baik gwe beli diamond ring dari tiket tu..So I'll be going thru the same route I took here. Brux-Dublin-Cork. Costed me about 75euro. Burnt my 65 euro ticket from Amsterdam to Cork. Haih....takpelah....nak buat camne kan....And I am definitely going to request for special assistance again. Lalala...takpelah naik wheelchair pon...tiada perlu lah saya berjalan-jalan...Lalala...

Brugge, Belgium

Brugge, Belgium Reunited. hehhehehe..

Still wearing a pant eventho my leg is casted. Gigih tak gigih la kan...but the crutch mencacatkan keadaan...cisss

Yummy waffles

Tappestry

Boat ride around Brugge. I hit my leg when I stepped into the boat. It hurted like helllllll okayhh...Hopefully everything is fine :(

Sadly to say people, eventho I am currently on holiday , I just received the most painful news I ever heard. One of the painful since 2004.....Hopefully this holiday could take away this pain out from me. I don't want to go back to Cork :(

Like she said, maybe Allah has a better plan for me. Fine. I'll just live with that..