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Rhine Falls – largest waterfalls in Europe 飞流直下三千尺 疑是银河落九天

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

This post, I shall dedicate you the so called Chinese majestic 李白 waterfalls, 飞流直下三千尺 疑是银河落九天。。。。。instead of portraying the Chinese 李白 waterfall, I will write something about the waterfall I visited during my Journey-to-the-West.

Rhine Falls, the largest plain waterfalls in Europe.

I present you the  waterfalls!

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飞流直下三千尺 疑是银河落九天。。。。。 oh yeah~~

Pardon me, I just humiliated myself.. anyway

I got the opportunity to travel with Pipi =)

Finding Rhine falls is so easy, you just need to drop yourself at Schaffhausen station Switzerland, it is also very near to Germany.

When you reach Schaffhausen, use your ears to guide you to the waterfalls by listening to the marvelous sound of the Waterfalls  ,,,,

until you see this in front of you..

then you will stop and just stare………

water like boiling..

There’s a water mill there, Electricity?

Pipi with mills

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Finally the so called real 飞流直下三千尺 疑是银河落九天。。。。。

Rhine Falls

Rhine Falls

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You can take a boat and reach the tiny peak ..

This Sampan will do the wonders

FireMice to Rhine Falls

you will get wet, including your camera..

Get yourself nearer to the most dangerous spot…

Then find your way up to the peak..

and yay!!!

FireMice on top of the world again!

Pipi too…

Must take all the nice photos before going back~

what an unforgettable experience… now I will think of Rhine Fall every time when I..



Having Fun with World Cup Trophy

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010




Strasbourg

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Strasbourg is another must-go-destination in Alsace region (North-Eastern France). Whoever comes to visit me, I will bring them to Colmar then follow by Strasbourg. They might think I’m a expert or a native of Alsace, because I don’t need a map to navigate around these 2 area, I can  story-telling about the history and events in Alsace so good so well that they didn’t even know I was actually bull shiting them…. pls let me continue bull shitting you in this post =)

Strasbourg is the capital of Alsace Region, it is hosting a few European institutions such as the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European Audiovisual Observatory) and the Eurocorps as well as the European Parliament and the European Ombudsman of the European Union…

See, all the important European thinggy is situated in Strasbourg, if one bomb dropped into Strasbourg, the entire European institutions will be vanished! Great fun..

Now, I brought some of my friends to Strasbourg by train. Most of them, when they came out from the station, they will have a WoW expression.

Low Kei and Kalen at Strasbourg train station

The train station itself is very old, they built a sky dome for the train station to protect the premises. The architect reminds you about China Beijing Olympic bird nest Stadium

Low Kei took a picture of me, I like the clear blue sky and the sky dome of the train station 一望无际,海阔天空。。。

Justin visited me during winter, the experience was totally different

The train station look like the Beijing Bird’s nest stadium is deposited with full of Bird Droppings =)

Strasbourg is not really a big town, it is very convenient to walk around, just  like Colmar. The very first thing we arrived Strasbourg is to find the famous Strasbourg’s cathedral.

Well, it is very difficult to describe what I felt about the cathedral.

This cathedral is huge, bigger than Notre dame of Paris.

Look at the beautiful design, it is so majestic and beautiful…

I stood in front of the building, closed my eyes, in my mind I think

FireMice。。。

Thank god, I was not born during 1176 and 1439, imagine what will happen to this Cathedral if I was born in Strasbourg during  1176 – 1439 and was assigned to design and build the cathedral? (few example of my art at Art #1 and Art #2 .) I would have destroyed the whole masterpiece and no one will come and visit Strasbourg after 1000 years

Catheral of Our Lady in Strasbourg. used to be the tallest building in Europe between 1647 to 1874. It was so gigantic, I can just buy one ice cream near by and admire it from morning till afternoon, then buy one kebab sit down and look at it from noon till evening, from evening take a beer till midnight

Nice sunsent in Strabourg

Justin admires Strasbourg cathedral also

The color of the facade seems different, I loved it so much until I even..

licked at it and feel what it taste like, the conclusion is: Cathedral Our Lady of Strasbourg taste like 900 years old.

Old buildings in Alsace region are special

Strasbourg used to be an important town to produce wine

For those who wants to take a tour ride to visit the entire Strasbourg, I would suggest you to take a boat ride at River ILL

It will bring you around, around and around until you feel dizzy…

The ride story telling (not bull shitting ok!) everything nearby the river and Strasbourg. See the above picture, Low Kei was listing so intensely

The boat will pass by the European institutes..

The ride was long, we decided to cam whore

one is not enough, so we did another one…

We passed by Barrage Vauben..

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stumbled upon a gigantic dog

you have to be careful, the dog bite everything that moves

Nearby there’s a Mega Virgin Store, I used to write a lot about Virgin

We walk around River ILL,

the river bed, 100 years ago, Many prostitutes tried to attract their client here. The house wives liked to wash clothes here.

I was exhibiting “the French” way to my friends

after all the wonderful experience, we went back to

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Colmar and Bukit Tinggi

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Some years ago, some business man from Malaysia went to France. He visited a small town called Colmar in Alsace. He duplicated Colmar and created Bukit Tinggi in Pahang.

I never been to Bukit Tinggi but I heard it is a very nice place to be visited. However, I’d visited  Colmar city 4 times (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring) since last year. Colmar remains as one of my favorite and the most sought after place to visit in France.

Colmar’s attraction are concentrated in its old town, stunningly beautiful and well preserved. What I like this place most is the relax ambient in Colmar, it is small a very small town hence you don’t need to rush from one place to another. Although Colmar is small, it has loads of interesting stuff.

Low Kei + Karen visited Colmar in the beginning of Spring.

There’s some shopping in old town Colmar, so tempting……………

One of the main attraction is Maison des Tetes (House of Heads)

Why do they name it house of heads? because the house has many heads

Where did the head come from? If you look at the opposite side, it explains everything

Nice houses.

ice cream too…

eat eat eat…

Nice Colmar beer

and famous Colmar pork knuckle.. yum yum

nice to shop… with low kei and Kalen..

and we came to Petite Venice, very very nice place

From here on, it turned into winter… and Justin came by

at night at little Vanice

Justin teleported

me too..

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but failed

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