Saturday, 8 February 2014

First day of my Europe trip: Pisa-Rome

Haven been updating my blog for more than a month and finally I am going to write about my Family trip in Europe during Christmas.

I had been looking forward to see my family since I got back to UK last September and I couldn't sleep on the night before flying off to meet them in Milan Malpensa Airport. I even packed my luggage 2 weeks in advance LOLOL!!

The day finally came and I woke up at 3 in the morning to travel to Gatwick Airport by train. After checking in my luggages and got my boarding pass, I settled down in McDonalds to have some breakfast. Ordered Sticky Toffee Muffin and it was so delish!! I bet it's not selling back in Malaysia HAHA=D

I was so excited that I went in too early so I ended up loitering around and not forgetting to take a selfie haha=P

back to red-magenta hair again for Christmas!

After several hours I was finally able to board the plane. I arrived in Milan 2 hours later and once I alight, I head straight to the luggage collection like a crazy woman, looked up for my luggage and rushed out of the arrival gate. I just totally ignored anyone who was in my way because all I thought was to see my family ASAP.( please do not learn from this...it's kinda unglam >.<)

So yeah, as long as I stepped out of the arrival gate, I saw some familiar faces and I just ran up to them and hugged them tightly after the whole 3 months of being away from home.

We abroad our coach and all my relatives gave me a super warm welcome by feeding me with all sorts of food and snacks from Malaysia. Oh man! I was on diet and I completely failed starting from the first day of my trip. But well, who cares? Never say NO to food from home when you are away=P

Best Pineapple tart everrrrr!!

red bean bun( it's just something that i miss eating=P)

they called this 'niu er bing' which means ox ear biscuit.But don't worry it's not made from beef LOL!

Some tasty korean snack

Dahfa fish fillet! Low calories and tasty!

Tapioca Cake

'ji dan gao'

favorite roasted bun with pork!! YUMSS

super yummy butter cake baked by the bestie's mum <3


I know it's kinda ridiculous for my family to bring all these food from Malaysia despite of the 13 hours flight! But I am really really grateful as all these tiny little things that they had done for me always touches me the most <3



Finally met my cousins!! Of course the first thing to do is always to--- take some pictures first!
cousins, bro and I

Stupid people at the back hahaha

Couzie aka god brother and I=D

Our first station was the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa Baptistry and Piazza die Miracoli. Finally get to visit the famous Leaning Tower and it's absolutely cool!

Random pictures taken on our way to the destination=)













 

All the buildings are GORGEOUS!!




















some stalls near leaning tower selling pasta in really special shapes

Italian McDonalds Menu LOL!

After taking loads of pictures, we went for lunch at a restaurant nearby. The food sucks=.= but anyway, we still took some pictures HAHA!


After lunch, we then travelled to Rome for around 4 hours. It's dinner time so we eat AGAIN>.< and the food in the hotel..... SUCKS=.=





Well, our day went quite well except for the food part. So my advice is that if you have a chance to visit Europe, don't ever follow a tour, or maybe research for good restaurant and discuss about it with the tourism company so that they arrange better food for you. You wouldn't want to spend tonnes of money paying the tourism company for food that taste like crap really=P

So this is my first day in Italy and there're more to come!=))