When: 2017-02-04 to 2017-02-17
Where: Sapporo, Japan (and a stop in Tokyo on the way out)
What: Snow Festival, Ghibli Museum and a good sushi breakfast
Snowfest
London Calling
Visiting the Holy Land
It’s a monkey!
When: 2016-02-03 to 2016-02-11
Where: Hong Kong
What: Geocaching and whatever people do on Chinese New Year
And…we’re back!
This marks the end of our little not-vacation* in Milan. As usual pictures will be posted as soon as I finish sorting through them.
*) I still hold that it’s not a proper vacation when you’re less than 1000km (as the bird flies) from home. It’s more like a little (extended/multi) day trip. Another sign for a not-vavation is when your flight time is only an hour and about half of it is taken up by take off/landing and taxiing.
Signs that you’re (probably) on a proper vacation include:
– you need to bring your passport to be let into the country (or even need to apply for a visa in advance)
– your destination is in a different timezone
– using a travel SIM card in your phone is not more expensive than just roaming with your home SIM
Playing the airport game
And we are at it again: Sitting in an airport (MXP in this case) cafe with a (now empty) coffee cup poking our smartphones and waiting for gate information for our flight to appear on the screen above us.
Arrived in Milano
Ah, bella italia. Well, obviously we arrived in Milano. But didn’t do much today. Checked in, explored the area, getting some food from the super-market and stressing the wifi.
It’s Saturday and everyone seems to be either at a bar/café/restaurant or at a barber, preparing for the evening. We considered going out for dinner as well, but the rain convinced us otherwise.
So aside from complaining about the so-so wifi connection, we planned the upcoming week (at least the parts we didn’t already have fixed).
Almost there…
Sitting at STR sipping a cappucino. Made it thru security… it took a bit longer tho – at least for Oliver. But on the positive side, we now know that he’s explosives-free.
Our flight departs in about 70mins and arrives at MXP one hour later. The distance – as the bird flies – is only three hundred something kilometers. Probably my shortest flight ever.
Next Stop: Milan
When: 2015-08-01 to 2015-08-08
Where: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
What: EXPO-visiting, Geocaching, Last Supper-ing
There and Back Again
Right now we are back exactly where we started this little trip on the morning of July 8th. Even our train back from FRA was delayed – 40 minutes by the time it reached Stuttgart.
End of Asia-2014.