European Tales 27 Jun - 8 Jul 09

From Paris to Amsterdam, Zurich, Rome and Milan...

Europe totally sucks. The weather sucked mi big time, save for amsterdam with cool summer.

Some discoveries...
- Train without aircon despite hot summer
- Train without auto door; have to push a button or lever to open the door
- Room without aircon; day time super hot; night time I felt as though I was in aircon room
- Coke and mineral water that costs Euro 2.00 (SGD4.10); drinking wine is cheaper
- Cherry flavour coke
- Pee smell on the streets
- Loud noise
- Fart smell on trains
- Paris subway network is ultra confusing, worse than Tokyo. You'll need pan and paper (So yea! I am a qualified backpacker)
- Vandalism (graffiti) is seen as an art
- Europeans sit in 1 straight line in outdoor cafe to people-watch, instead of sitting in circles around a table
- To use toilet (urinal) costs Euro 1.00; to shit costs Euro 2.00 (Zurich main train station)
- "Toilets only for patrons; non-customer please pay at the counter before use."
- Even a Japanese finds Switzerland expensive
- Sunset at 10pm during summer
- Europeans have footlong subway sandwich by themselves; I could not almost finish even a 6-inch
- French kiss indeed originated from france; french people enjoy kissing, nonstop; at the airport, in the park, at the subway, everywhere.
- Pinocchio comes from an Italian village, carved out of wood
- Snow all year round on Mount Titlis, Zurich, Switzerland
- MacDonald's set meal in Europe could buy you a set meal in a restaurant in SG