tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174324442012-02-09T16:46:40.503+08:00Dominiquenoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-30508449564961776462011-12-08T23:37:00.000+08:002011-11-10T13:22:41.289+08:00

Happy Birthday to myself! woke up pretty early today perhaps of the excitement I've been feeling since last night. (I was replying FB texts way into the wee hours.) so I took my time dressing up for the day, running up & down between my room & our car before settling myself down on a nice little table to reply FB texts with a cup of hot cuppa while waiting for breakfast. what an awesome start for

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-54818698757058702292010-12-07T23:45:00.007+08:002011-08-22T00:45:36.616+08:00

I knew I couldn't wake up on time. Even when my parents were up & about; getting ready for the day, I was still in bed, too reluctant to move any bit. Dragging myself out of bed had been hard, but bidding goodbye to Nice is even harder. Once we were done with breakfast, we bid goodbye to the sweet hotel owner & keyed in our destination today; Pisa, Italy. Gosh, our itinerary is moving on so fast!

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-28114317630514283482010-12-06T23:28:00.003+08:002011-07-08T19:59:24.091+08:00

it's eight in the morning on the 6th Dec & we're already celebrating my birthday! though I'm officially adding anther +1 to my age, it seems really comforting as I'm spending it in Nice & in Rome on the actually day! well. my idea actually, I was dying to try this french apple tart out & boy it was delicious! one bite & we were already regretting why we didn't get all those different tarts

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-8824490284194973012010-12-05T23:38:00.002+08:002011-05-20T00:36:00.415+08:00

we couldn't wake up on time this morning since we had a late night yesterday. grab a quick breakfast before setting off, first getting our car from the hotel's garage - which was a total nightmare, avoiding pillars, cars & the ramp up to the main road was the steepest I've seen. we're bidding Spain goodbye & heading home today! just a mere 3 hours drive to Carcassonne. the first stop was not the

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-1588856123313656342010-12-04T23:42:00.009+08:002011-08-22T00:52:15.159+08:00

we came to know about the bad weather on the Europe continent & started to get worried for the days ahead. but Spain gave us a awesome weather for today at least. :) we head straight for Valencia, reaching it two & a half hours later. Valencia is the third largest city in Spain, since we're running late for Barcelona, we stop at downtown & walk around for a while instead of visiting the

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-8628117888754223442010-12-03T23:25:00.020+08:002011-05-19T14:38:19.617+08:00

we had a quick breakfast before taking our car from the valet (dead early in the morning yet again). by now, I'm pretty used to packing & tiding our car every morning (its always in a huge mess everytime I grab & go the night before), filling up all our water bottles to the brim & prepare our maps, ready at hand. Spain's famous attractions are so scattered, we'd to drive four & a half hours down

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-62928931975163579532010-12-02T22:40:00.016+08:002011-04-24T23:39:33.362+08:00

the night in Bordeaux was freezing cold. bed covers weren't warm enough and we had to use our down jackets to save ourselves from the cold night. today's journey is gonna be crazy. our destination is the capital Madrid & we hope to reach there by 3pm after a 7 hours drive. HEH. i really don't know how i managed to wake up at 5am and prepared for breakfast before we left our hotel by 6am. when it

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-78230433728721691022010-12-01T23:34:00.006+08:002011-03-11T14:01:05.973+08:00

we reached the Château grounds earlier than expected. their staffs were so strict on the opening hours that they don't even allow us to head into the store to stay out of the bitter cold wind outside. gee, be flexible! Château de Chenonceau is located in Chenonceaux, a small village in Loire Valley, built on the site of an old mill on River Cher. While châteaus are normally associated with kings

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-81923982473727432612010-11-30T17:55:00.000+08:002011-03-11T13:33:21.137+08:00

i probably had one of the best sleep ever since 2010 started. while parents prepared for the day, i lay in bed listening to my mp3 for a while more before getting up for breakfast. once we'd satisfied our stomaches, we bought some luggages back to our car, which had froze up in the night. we had to defrost our car before moving off to Cancale, determined to find oysters from there before

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-88450528434613598912010-11-29T21:56:00.002+08:002011-08-22T01:10:28.760+08:00

All of us had a rough night yesterday. by the time we had breakfast & loaded our car boot, it was 8.30am. an hour later, we found ourselves in the little sweet town where the UNESCO world heritage site, Chateau de Fontainebleau was located. it was first commission by Francis I in the 16th century and it had gone through lots of french monarchs before the last, Napoleon. it was of the largest

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-87015808949850765592010-11-28T23:16:00.007+08:002011-08-22T01:04:23.145+08:00

i was pretty stunned myself that i actually woke up on time at 6am to prepare for the long day ahead. once done, we headed to the secure basement to retrieve our car from the terribly tight squeezed hotel carpark. just the 2nd day into the trip, we've hit our side mirror. no scratch, whew. our first destination is Chateau de Versailles, i've been hearing all about the Chateaus in France, Castles

Dominiquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17432444.post-80075876945309377902010-11-27T22:30:00.012+08:002011-08-22T00:52:49.057+08:00

Left house around 9pm, reaching T1 half an hour later, finding the terminal in huge chaos. i hardly come to terminal 1 at all. daddy's flights are always at either T2 or T3 & i've got so used to the peaceful ambiance over there. it feels more like a budget terminal compared to the other two. i just hope that it would hurry finish its renovation & look on par with the 2 other terminals. Emirates

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