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Heya..I’m back from my 1 week Italy trip.Really miss my room and really need a good rest.

I left Oxford for Firenze on the 2nd of Dec. Went to Stansted Airport. There were 12 of us.Huiyoo..such a big group to travel. After a 3 hours ride in a bus to the Airport, I finally departed from UK to Italy at 8.30 am on tat 2nd Dec.The flight journey only took 2 hours.

I took train to travel around Italy. The first city I visited was Florence/Firenze. I love the city. Some people said that Florence in the nicest city in the world. The city is very old and have many old monuments, museums and buildings. But, as I have been in Oxford and being surrounded by the old Harry Potter buildings, Firenze is only another old city for me. Oxford is much cleaner I guess. But whatever it is, I reckon tat Florence is nice and worth to be visited.

The greatest visit that I made was to the art gallery called Uffizi gallery. It was awesome. I managed to see many original masterpieces from Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael(like Ninja Turtles pulak) and the best Leonardo Da Vinci. The art gallery was so huge that it took me 5 hours to see everything.The best painting for me was "The birth of Venus" from Boticelli.

From Ufizzi Gallery we went to the Gallery of the Academy/Academia, where they have the famous statue of David of Michelangelo.Fuhh..I was so impressed and mesmerized  by this statue. I have seen the replica version from outside, but the real David was a real thing. I don’t know how to describe my feeling. David was perfectly build and well balanced. For me David is the real thing that made my trip to Firenze worth going.

Boon Ka and I managed to catch the sightseeing bus and explore Firenze. Only both of us.The rest went to Sienna. It was raining that day. Boon Ka and I took more than 1000 pictures.We went to the the Pisa Tower. It was great. I tried to take BK’s pic but to our suprise the leaning tower became straight when I took it..my fren told me that I was the Superman 3.

The second city I visited was Turin/Torino. This was supposed to be our ski triip city. But unluckily there was no snow yet in the skiing resorts. But we still lucky tat we went to the snow mountains area.Cool.

The last city I went was Milan..I thought Milan should be nice as the internet said that Milan is a competitor to Paris. But for me, Milan is nothing but a big city with the Prada, Gucci, and D&G shops. KL is much more better and worth to be visited.

For me Italians are not friendly comparing to Malaysians and British. They gave us wrong directions and seldom said gracia/thanks. I feel not comfortable with the Italians.

Shopping in Italy is not very cheap. But I managed to get the real leather handbag and belt which can be considered cheap. But Christmas is approaching, London should have many cheap stuff on the Boxing day. Accomodation and food is expensive in Europe. That’s y I am suffering from my post trip trying to recover my financial ability as I am now at the disability status.

Overall, I give 6.8/10 to my first Europe trip. I will definite go bak to Italy to visit Rome and Venice. Maybe one day..haha..when I have more money.

Writing this post is like writing an essay for my primary school teacher entitled " Pengalaman Cuti Sekolah Saya"…haha..I know it is boring,,but wat can I do.sorry!:-)

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