Sept/Oct 2009 Travel Plan

Booked my train ticket to Lake district - Windermere 13-17Sept
Book my train ticket via the National railway

Next up will be plan for Italy and Germany on 21st Sept till 8th Oct.
Italy 21 Sep - 1 Oct
Booked flight to Naples 21st Sept - £25.94
Naples Accomodation est. 3nights - ???
Reading up the following to plan my trip.
Still undecide where to go in Italy.
Tentative plan
21 sept Naples (3days Mt. Vesuvius, Pompeii, Herculaneum)
25 sept Rome (3 days incl Vatican)
28 sept Florence (2 Days Cin Que Terre highly recommended by Lisa & Pisa)
30 sept Milan
1 Oct Venice
More about Italy
About.com Top of Italy
TrenItalia - Intercity train in Italy
*Note: Get Italy intercity train ticket in Italy will be cheaper than online purchase.

Germany 3 - 8 Oct
Booked return flight from Berlin - London on 8th Oct. - £14.15
Tentative Germany Plan/route by Yanto
3-4 Oct München/1/2 day trip to Schloss Neuschwanstein (Night train €29)
5 Oct Baden-Baden(Black Forest)
6-7 Oct Berlin
8 Oct - Find my way to Berlin Airport.

To get around UK & Europe

Some tips on travelling around UK and Europe.

Explore England can refer to visitBritain.

To check out public transport around England, this is quite a good website to refer to, it provides you the latest traffic update from underground, bus diverted news.
Public Transport.

To explore around UK, it will be cheap to travel in bus than rail. So here I recommend a cheap bus trip:-

- Megabus
- For Railway - National Railway


To get really cheap air ticket to Europe, you can try the below websites. The air ticket fluctuate up and down. It will be good if you BOOK early, the cheapest you can grab is £9.95.


- Aerlingus

- Easyjet

- Ryanair

- Pegasus Airline (To Turkey - Istanbul only)


By Rail, Eurostar only serves some area like Paris, Brussel, Lille, Calais but you can get really cheap ticket at £59 for return if you book EARLY!

- Eurostar £59 value


After settling your transport, you gotta find accomodation, you won't want to sleep in the COLD, WINDY street. =)

- Couchsurfing

- hostelworld

- hostelboooker

Do update me if there is any cheap tour around and I'll post it here too.

Survival Skill 4: COOK

Finally, I'm cooking. I bought 3 packets of cheap Pasta, tomato pasta sauce, cheese, spinach, cheese spread, grapes, banana, mushrooms, beef & hams.

I got recipe from the internet on Teriyaki sauce. Is nice but I forget to add garlic so it taste like sesame oil chicken kekeke but w/o the sesame oil cos of the ginger slices.


I made tiramisu but failed cos I added milk to the whipped cream so it became watery T_T.


I made Chocolate crunchflakes too =) No more M&S expensive chocolate crunchflakes.

I baked pasta! It was a success! Cos it was finished in 'SPLIT' sec. hahaha
exaggerated? ok is nice. Get yourself an oven and it make everything easy.
Ingredient for my baked pasta - Penne pasta, oil, garlic, beef, 1 pack of 3-in-1 soup, mushroom, cheese and carrots. Boil the penne pasta, fry the garlic, beef, mushroom & carrots.
Place the boiled pasta in a tin and pour the 3-in-1 soup in. Then pour the cooked ingredient. Place slices of cheese to cover the pasta. BAKED.

Survival Skill 3: Learn their Language

Your trip will in no way compare with the incredible adventure that awaits the traveler who speaks their language. So learn some of their language before you head there.

Suvivial Skill 2: Job Hunter in UK

The economy is grim everywhere but there are still alot of jobs published in gumtree, reeds and many other job agencies are still recruiting people. To find a job here, please prepare a LONG detail cv selling yourself if you don't have any GREAT, COLOURFUL ACHIEVEMENTs in your career like myself.

Job like kitchen helper, butcher also require you to submit CV. lol.

Survival Skill 1: Groceries Shopping

To survive as a WHM, you need to find a job to earn some $ for your travelling. BUT before you manage to find a job, you need to feed yourself. To feed yourself, preparing food instead of dine out will be CHEAPER. So learn to cook! To cook, you need to find cheap food. Usually cheap food can be find at SUPERMARKET. Supermarket housebrand will be cheaper than other brands. So I was brought to 24 hours ASDA to get groceries & daily necessities - Shampoo, shower foam, toiletries, etc.

Making of Chicken rice with instant stock & some self-make spices - Presenting the Chef - Lisa

All about TAIWAN.....

Ever since I got to know I won the Taiwan gives you a hug competition. I had been tuning my itinerary.... I have come across some helpful websites to plan your trip. You must at least know understand simple 繁体字。There is a very big info difference between a Chinese Char and English translated website. I realise the Chinese web will have more info than the Eng.
Helpful planning tips

• Airport transfer
• Taiwan Backpacker Forum
• All Taiwan Bus Services
• Taiwan Youth Travel
• Taiwan Railway Train Code, Departure/Arrival Time
• Taiwan Railway Stations
• Youth Hosteling