Vroom vroom!

Milwaukee 21-23 Nov 2011



Vroom vroom! The Harley-Davidson Museum was the highlight of this trip.

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We randomly picked a spot nearby for a short holiday - Milwaukee. We decided not to drive so we took the Metra to Chicago and changed to an Amtrak, which turned out to be really comfortable.
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Apples galore!

Apple Holler, 23 Oct 2011



The Desperate Housewives of Evanston went apple picking!! :)

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The girls went apple picking at Apple Holler on Sunday!

This map came with the tickets:
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紅葉の旅

Japan, 24-29 Oct 2008



Visited Na in Gifu and roamed the nearby area, just a little.. This has to be my shortest and most uneventful trip to Japan so far, unless you count the naked men by the river....! (There's a picture of said naked men but it was taken really faaaar away..)

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Well, not really, late October was still too early for 紅葉.. But I did see a few red leaves! :p
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Ilha Formosa - The Beautiful Isle

Taiwan, 19-28 Nov 2005



The first trip I took with CY and Kel, who didn't know each other beforehand, and no, it was not a matchmaking trip! Hoho!

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19 Nov - 你不是日本人吗？

That was the first thing a local said to me when I asked for directions to my hostel - strange cos I thought I looked less Japanese after cutting my hair.. Anyway, that was when I started re-learning the Taiwanese accent; perfected it by the next day. No one can tell I'm foreign unless I stumble upon some phrase I'm used to saying only in English, eg it's 公车 for cab, not 德士 or however you write that, which exposed me as a foreigner!
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Canals galore (but it's not Venice)

Amsterdam, 11 Nov 2000



Four of us - G, LS, KT and me - took a day trip to Amsterdam - from Oxford! Being such a short trip, we only had time for three things - Anne Frank, canals, sex and of course, food.

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I think it was organised by the Oxford Union. I no longer remember when we set off - could be Friday night or Saturday morning. But we took the bus and crossed the English Channel on a ferry to get to France before continuing our drive up to Amsterdam!

It was a cold winter morning. We started with the Anne Frank House. Took a picture but we might not have gone in - it wasn't open? If so, then we must have left Oxford on Friday night.. But really, I don't remember *.*

We kind of chanced upon the Sex Museum, and that was where yours truly first sat on the huge balls of a proportionately huge penis *.*


Source: http://austindesign.com/heather/Amsterdam2/Amsterdam2-Pages/Image19.html

We roamed the city a little, following the canals here and there. They were different from those in Venice - they were in many concentric rings around and through the city. I seem to recall that the water had a strange smell..

At night, we checked out the red light district. The girls were like store mannequins in lit show glasses. When we took out our cameras, one of them shook her head to indicate to us that we could not do that. Oh well..

We also passed by a shop selling interesting stuff - could they be what they called "magic mushrooms"? On the bus, we were told over and over again that we couldn't bring back any of them. Think they're now banned in the Netherlands as well.

We used up the last of our money on dinner and ice cream before crashing in the bus. It was a very tiring but fun weekend trip! (With no homework done!)