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Destination: Japan, Germany & Singapore
Destination: Japan, Germany & Singapore
Duration: 13 Days 12 Nights (Feb 22~Mar 07, 2014)
Day 9-11: Works, Train & Last Night in Frankfurt…
Did I ever mention how I love European buffet spread?
Well, take a look at photos below! How could you not love it??? *dreamy sigh*
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| Oh Gosh!!! Look at that! They have smoked salmon too!!! |
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| Self made Sandwich! Hahaha... |
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| Trying different Combination |
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| Getting some Cranberry & Cornflakes as well! |
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| Different meat this time... |
We walked to the office in the industrial area every
morning which took us about 10minutes to walk off the calories we’d consumed
from the heavy breakfast. Work was going on as usual and we spent the 2 days in
office having lunch at a nearby foodcourt eating German sausage & pork schnitzel.
The food was actually not bad!
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| Giant Sausage Set!!! |
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| Pork Schnitzel Set |
We had dinner with the sales team on Monday night in
another local restaurant and this time we just had to order Paulaner – come on!
We were in Germany! Hehehe.. I ordered the pork schnitzel with mushroom sauce
and it tasted really great and I’m sure it’s doing wonders to my waistline too.
*facepalm*
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| Paulaner! |
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| SF's Salmon Set |
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| Another Pork Set |
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| Pork Schnitzel with Mushroom Sauce! Yummy!!! |
Tuesday was our last night in Germany thus we’d decided
to get to Frankfurt again. This time there was no way in h3ll we were going to
take a taxi! A German colleague told us that there was actually a S-Bahn train
station (Langen-Flugsicherung) 5 minutes away from Steingenberger Hotel. The
train station was a stark different from Japan train station was there were
simply so empty with few people. We met a local German young guy who was going
to Frankfurt as well and he was so nice to help us to buy the train ticket from
the machine (there was no ticket booth or guard!!!! It only cost us EUR15 for a
day ticket which we could use to take other public transport on the same day
with a maximum group of 5 people!!! DARN!!! It was even cheaper than individual
return ticket from Langen<->F rankfurt! So peeps, if you happen to be in Germany
– just buy this ticket especially if you have a group of five!
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| Empty Station |
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| Here is the Train |
The train was really empty and there was even no
conductor to check our tickets. Johan got off on the same station at Hauptwache
like us and gave us some direction tips before going to meet his girlfriend.
What a nice guy he is. =) The station was named after Hauptwache building – the
most important police station between 1729-1731 in Frankfurt. It was just near
to Zeil shopping street that we went on Saturday. We went into some of the mall
before deciding to walk to Romerberg again to take some night picture. We were
thinking to buy some souvenir but unfortunately all the shops were closed at 8pm!
*facepalm*
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| Arriving in Frankfurt - i think this is the St. Catherine's Church near the Station |
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| It's dark but this is actually Hauptwache - one a famous police station in old time |
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| At the Zeil again |
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| A very long elevator |
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| No Water? |
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| Another Shopping Mall |
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| Canvas House? |
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| Every Shops are Closed! |
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| There is no one there... |
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| Romerburg at night |
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| Romer |
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| Fountain of Justice with no wine |
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| A Picture with Fountain of Justice |
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| Cathedral at night |
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| Well, we need to take a picture with it! |
We did stumbled upon the Eschenheim Tower when we were
food hunting. It was one of the 42 watchtowers built in 1428. We finally
settled down in a restaurant nearby to have beer & burger outdoor.
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| Eschenheim Tower |
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| Finally! |
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| A Beer! |
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| Let's see what to eat! |
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| Giant size Beef Burger! |
We managed to take the S-Bahn train back to Langen-Flugsicherung
without incident and spent our last night in Langen.
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| Walking back to the Station |
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| Here we are! |
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| Empty Station at Hauptwache there |
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| The S-Bahn |
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| Does this look like a scene in Horror Movie? |
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| Here is our train! |
We booked the hotel shuttle to airport at 9am Wednesday so
I took the chance to take some pictures around the hotel before checking out.
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| A View from the Room |
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| Wilkommen? Tschus! |
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| Walking around the Hotel |
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| This is our hotel |
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| Beautiful flowers |
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| With lots of trees! |
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| More Trees! |
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| All in a Street called Robert Bosch |
We reached Frankfurt Airport and did some souvenir shopping before boarding our SQ flight to Singapore.
Lunch onboard were either pork, chicken or fish and I choose
the fish set which was passable. It was a 13hours++ flight and we were served
some potato chips in the middle of the flight. Due to the time difference, we
would be reaching Singapore on Thursday early morning so we should be getting
some sleep but unfortunately jetlag got the best of me and I only managed to
sleep for 1-2 hours during the whole flight. *sigh*
I did managed to buy a Tommy Hilfiger Watch on board and only paid SGD26 for it since i was given a SGD75 inflight shopping voucher due to luggage delay incident during my last trip to Japan (link).
Next Day (A Short Night in the Gardens)
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| In Frankfurt Airport |
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| Luftansa! |
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| With Love! |
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| Sammy has a seat? |
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| Lunch Menu |
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| Sammy is Happy! |
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| Sammy is all prepped! |
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| With a glass of Singapore Sling! |
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| The Pork Set |
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| The Thai Fish Set |
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| Magnum! No Haagen Dazs? Such Travesty!!! |
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| Snack in the middle of the flight... |
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| New Watch! Happy!!! |
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