Sweska Says…

I have some story to tell about my weekend in Luxembourg City. This city is filled with deep valleys and forts and I spent the morning roaming along the Wenzel Walk high up at the edges of the cliff. And by the time it was afternoon, i went further down into the valley and took my 2 hours of idle thoughts beside the stream. So can you spot where i took the afternoon pic from the morning shot? uuuuuhh… plain bliss strolling up and down the valleys and forts of Luxembourg!

And now, this gets even more exciting… While strolling along Place d’Armes, I saw postcards featuring the Royalty of this country. And little while later, the main church was having celebrations and marching bands. Not forgetting to be both Kaypo and Kiasu, I went straight to the front door of the Church! And guess who i saw!!! I shook the hands of saw the Grand Duke, the Grand Duchess and the Princess!!!!! They were like right beside me… hmmm maybe after all I should have marched up a little more and shook their hands :s Uh well… my first brush with the rich and the famous! *ahem ahem*

Well… this is what i call meeting with the totally unexpected

I have been itching to post up how i had my afternoon coffee last weekend. Sitting on that narrow staircase winding up the wall of my hostel, i sat there beside the railing having my coffee while the sun ray was falling on the entire east of Lyon. See that? This is right from the Fourvière Hill over-looking the Vieux Lyon and really far away at the horizons can you see those snow capped Alpes mountain range?

The thing is …i didn’t know that i would be seeing this view… and in the coming weeks to go, I will never know what I will be feeling and seeing. And this is exactly why I have been running away every single weekend to a new place. Sometimes I can just spend the entire afternoon listening to the african drums beside the Rhone river, or watch the southern fields and the eastern Alpes as my TGV runs from Lyon to Marseille… I could be doing just purely nothing.

And for this pure thrill of seeing and experiencing something new, I keep running away every single weekend! Luxembourg seems to be in the agenda for this weekend. I got my trains and a place a night… and the rest I’m am just getting too lazy to find out!

Idleness and ignorance is sometimes my greatest thrill… and i am getting more than I have imagined!

Ok this is weird. I am lazy to cook, but if i go without cooking for a few days, there’s this urge to cook a little something in the comfort of my room. And after heeding mom and dad’s consistent reminders about eating balanced meal i cooked one just now

Pasta sauce is clearly the lazy people’s way of cooking Not too bad… here’s my easy lazy tasty dinner done in just 3 steps! And i opened another bar of Belgian Chocolate Noir for dessert. Bon Appétit!

when i woke up this morning i felt this suddenly…

That out of all my years in life i’m going through my best time as yet. And it is even greater that i’m realising it as i’m going through it right now because often we only realise our best times spent when it is already over or we keep waiting for years hoping for that best time to come.

I got this pic for mom to show her all the chocolates i got from Berlin and Brussels… they are all piled up in my little fridge!

And she asked me to taste one of them and if I like them, I should buy more… bad advice. So i opened that Belgium dark chocolate bar and half was finished within an hour. That’s alright! I’m merely tasting them and by the time i write this, well it’s actually all gone.

Please hope that i don’t gobble down all of my entire chocolate store before they all reach you guys!! Any suggestion to somehow lock them up and keep them away from me?

*yummm.. that one looks good too… i should have a bite*

Chef: You are sure you don’t wanna try some Dutch beer?
Me: Oh i would love too! But … eerr i don’t really drink, i mean i’m not used to… so ordering one whole glass would be a waste!
Chef: You are in this city and you must try this! Let me give you a full glass *wink*

And so i had my first glass of beer… Dutch beer that is in the middle of Centrum Amsterdam along with nachos and spanish tapas

Uuuuuhhh i just love these sunday lunches… each sunday lunch being spent in a different city with a new taste. Yes i do love that 2 little gulps of Dutch Beer in a miniature beer glass.

So where will be my next Sunday’s lunch?

Last weekend i dashed for that view of those Dutch windmills over at Holland… erm erm erm…. it’s just so picturesque. Remember those childhood picture books we used to read? Yes!! I saw exactly that view. If you are ever in Amsterdam, you must surely drop by to see these windmills in the Dutch countryside which is only 20 minutes by train… i wanna go there again, in a months’ time. Once is surely not enough

I went to the supermarket to buy a toothpaste because i’m almost finishing it! And for 20 minutes i was walking everywhere finding it… you see this is even bigger than Ang Mo Kio NTUC. And then i landed in a huge area full of la fromage…Cheese… I have never seen so much cheese in my life!!

Maybe only in this country one can find soo many types of Cheese. I remember when i went to the Loire Valley, Monsieur Pascal told us there are infact 360+ cheese and so you can taste each one on every day of the year… so anybody wants me to bring over some cheese for you?

See these little green leaves that are coming out finally?? Yes! In less than 2 weeks’ time Spring will come full bloom… and climate is becoming warmer and there are more blue skies. The night comes only at 8:30pm! Wheee i’m looking forward to Spring!! And maybe then i can fully enjoy the Keukenhof tulip gardens and the a ride along the Brugge canals…