Gazillion things happened for the past few weeks. I was travelling again but this time my parents were here and we must have done almost all the touristy things possible in France, Holland and Belgium!  But it was really really good… you know places and things are touristy for a reason We saw immensely beautiful things right from history to nature to culture. More importantly, we had our long awaited family holiday because the last one was 15 years back when I was not even a teenager!

In short: Mission Accomplished. Yes, even though this is my first time in Europe or travelling entirely on my own, I did manage to figure things out and even bring my parents here. Hurraaayyy!!!! And now it looks like it’s almost time to go home as well, isn’t it?

Here are some shots from that DSLR, our newest family gadget

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!