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Budapest: Arriving via Student Agency Bus, Ride The Old Budapest Metro

Eastern Europe Trip // Budapest: Arriving via Student Agency Bus, Ride The Old Budapest Metro -After spending 2 days 2 nights at Bratislava, we headed to Budapest, the capital of Hungary via Student Agency bus. The ride was about 3 hours and it was pretty comfortable if were to compare with Megabus.com. 30-something seats, with small entertainment screen and a compliment cup of hot chocolate, that’s pretty worthwhile for less than 10 Euro per person. One thing about bus in Europe is almost all of them are equipped with a small toilet for quick relieve. The only bus in Malaysia that has equipped toilet is Aeroline, which is my favourite too.

Day 1 of Budapest was nothing much as we spend most of the time around our hostel and wait a friend to arrive from London. Since it’s 4 days 3 nights in Budapest, so there’s plenty of time for us to explore. So I took the opportunity of first day to plan for the next 3 days.

Budapest was quite new to me but then it’s a lovely city with rich culture. Coming from Asia, Budapest is a place that I’ve not study before and the Hungarian language is just alien to me. I think I can’t find any Hungarian word that is close to English. It’s cool, at least the people in Budapest was really friendly. Anyway, check out the Budapest Metro photo below, it’s so old it feels like 1970s!

BlackSheep Hostel, the place we stayed in Budapest. A thumbs up for the hostel. Lovely staff and place.

Kebab, something that you must not be missed in Europe. They are everywhere! Cheap, and delicious.

The almighty New York Cafe, most beautiful cafe in the world. I shall write about it in another post.

Lovely street at night.

Burger for dinner!

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The old Budapest Metro.

May 18, 2014
Warsaw: Taking The Metro & Leaving To Krakow By PolskiBus

Eastern Europe Trip // Warsaw: Taking The Metro & Leaving To Krakow By PolskiBus – Day 4 of the whole Eastern Europe Trip, we leaved Warsaw early in the morning to Krakow! It was still dark out there when we stepped out of the hostel that I wouldn’t recommend (Jump Inn). Feeling fresh and cold and wandered our way to the metro station – Centrum. The funny thing about the metro station was the the disabled-gate was left opened and people passed through it without scanning ticket or something. Hmm? Hiak hiak hiak, We followed the local and wandered through the gate as well.

Upon getting on the metro, it sort of like bring me to somewhere else, not today, but back in time. The squarish metro train with red, white and blue stripes just looks so retro. It’s nothing like London’s Underground or Hong Kong’s MTR. It’s old, but still cool.

It’s still looking dark out there at Dworzec Autobusowy Metro Wilanowska (Wilanowska Bus Station), and we spent a bit time at the convenient store for for breakfast while waiting for the arrival of the bus to Krakow – PolskiBus. Yes, we are budget travellers, and bus is our best friend for bring us around and PolskiBus is a good one because there’s Wifi and powerpoint for charging! And the other thing is, the bus has a toilet too!

Bye Jump Inn!

Bye Jump Inn, and no thank you. Thank you in Polish is Dziekujie (Jin-ku-yah)

On the way to Krakow, one of the oldest city in Poland and also is a very exciting place as well!

February 25, 2014
Zhouzhuang: Last Exploration & Back Shanghai

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China Trip – Zhouzhuang 周庄 : Last Exploration & Back Shanghai (Day 3) – Well, it’s my last few hours at Zhouzhuang. Sunrise – done; Boat ride – done and now it’s the last exploration of this beautiful ancient water town in China before heading back to Shanghai in the afternoon. We checked out the inn, bought our stuffs with us and we went to walk around again, this time according to the map of attractions.

We visited house of ancient famous people – Shen Wan Shan, which I have no idea who he really was (I don’t think he was famous, so I did not bother), then we went to a Chinese poet shop and asked the poet to write us a few poems derive from our name. This one is kinda cool, as in Zhouzhuang, you will see many shops, offering to write you a Chinese poem with your name in it, it’s actually not a specialty at there, but then it’s just a way of making money for them. We found it kinda interesting, so we gave our name for the poet, and he wrote us some Chinese poems. It’s pretty cool. It’s only 10RMB per poem, why not? We’ve got addicted with the poem writing and in the end, we have so many poems with my name, brother’s, my girlfriend, brother’s girlfriend, mom and dad, and even dad’s business. =D

Later then, we found a Chinese opera house, unfortunately no opera was showing at there, it’s like a museum, a Taoist temple, Mao Tse Tong’s musuem, some local shops and that’s all. We went back to the bus station, bought a bus ticket or 25RMB to go back to Shanghai. Instead of heading back to Shanghai South Station, we went to Shanghai Main Railway Station. The journey took longer than 2 hours this time because of traffic congestion in Shanghai. At there, we took the Shanghai Metro to go back to our hotel, take a rest, then explore again. Fun! Shanghai was so much warmer, at 6 degree celcius.

This is Shen Wan Shan 沈万山.

Poet and calligrapher – Mr Zhi Xue.

A Taoist temple.

Cool barber shop with Uncle Mao’s photo on the wall.

Wan Shan Ti / Wan Shan Hock, pork knuckles.

Had Yangzhou Fried Rice for lunch, it tasted oily and not-bad. This costs 10RMB. We were told by the waitress that Zhouzhuang doesn’t has any must-eat or local food, many of the foods are from other places.

The Chinese Opera House.

Bus station, waiting for bus.

Finally back to Shanghai, this is Shanghai Main Railway Station.

It’s about 4.30pm, the sky was getting dark already. We headed to the Shanghai Metro to take the train back to our hostel.

Like New York, the track shares with train of different lines, so you have see the screen clearly so that you will not get on the wrong line.

Waiting for train.

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March 5, 2012
Shanghai: Shanghai South Long-Distance Bus Station

China Trip – Shanghai: Shanghai South Long-Distance Bus Station 上海长途客运南站 (Day 2) – Good morning! It’s second day at Shanghai. I was not feeling well the day before due to lack of sleep and sudden cold, but then I was so much better on the second day. I was craving for some McDonald’s to bring up my appetite.

The second day of my China Trip was to a very famous ancient water town – Zhouzhuang, which is located near to Suzhou. After getting direction from the hostel’s front desk, we started our journey.

How to go to Zhouzhuang? – Go to Shanghai South Long-Distance Bus Station and take a 1.5 hours bus ride to Zhouzhuang.

The morning was OK-cold, it’s about 9 degree celcius. It’s my first time experiencing Shanghai, but the main point of day 2 was not Shanghai, but Zhouzhuang, so I didn’t bother to see Shanghai yet. Shanghai South-Long Distance Bus Station is kinda far, we have to change two lines in Shanghai Metro. We took Line 2 train at Nanjing Lu Station to People’s Square, then change to Line 1 to Shanghai South Station.

Walking towards the Shanghai Metro.

Wet morning, but not heavy rain.

11 Lines in Shanghai Metro. Not easy reading the Metro’s map.

Look! Chinese people queuing up to board the Metro! That’s so cool man.

The bus station is not located right beside the Metro or above, it takes another 10 minutes walk from the metro station to the bus station. We were hungry, but we wanted to go buy ticket first.

There’s two bus going to Zhouzhuang daily, one at 8:15am, another at 1.20pm. We bought the 1.20pm tickets, and as usual, we need to produce our ID document while buying the ticket. It’s only 35RMB to Zhouzhuang. Then we went to buy food for lunch – McDonald’s!

How am I gonna shit here? Imagine you see other people’s poo floating pass you.

Cold duck wing. Yums.

Checking ticket.

Spicy Chicken Fillet Burger is awesome!

Spotted a ferries wheel while on the way to Zhouzhuang.

The bus station is really high tech. There’s a waiting hall and ticket check point gate. We boarded the bus at about 1.10pm. The driver wanted us to finish the McDonald’s burger as he said that the burger smells weird. Haha. Chinese driver doesn’t like McDonald’s. The ride to Zhouzhuang takes about 1.5-2 hours depends on traffic. I looked out of the bus window to see Shanghai and I found some stupid thing. A driver parked his car by the highway’s road side, went down of his car, then pee by the road, then get back into his car and drive. DA FUQ is the Chinese doing?

March 4, 2012

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