Left junior's home at 9.35am to catch the bus to the Frankfurt Hahn Airport.

Bus ride to Frankfurt Hahn Airport--2hrs+
Plane to Oslo--1hr 35 min
Bus ride to Oslo city centre--1hr 38min

By the time we reach Oslo city centre and found our hotel and check in, it was about 7pm. one day was just wasted on the bus and plane.

Upon arrival in the Oslo Torp Airport, we were very dehydrated so thought of getting something to drink. We looked around and decided on orange juice. A carton of 500ml of orange juice cost 18 NOK = about 4+ sgd (IT'S CRAZY!)

After we checked in, the beds were too comfy for us to resist. So we just stayed in the hotel for the rest of the night. haha.



*will fill up the blank at the end of my whole trip*

but for the first day. it's a TERRIBLE Europe trip.

Day 1 25th Sept 2009

I left Singapore crying ALOT. I thought I wouldn't cry since I had travelled so many times. End up when I saw Toinh and David coming down to send me off despite being late for training, I started tearing already. Then I saw ChenYeh, she come to pass me my giap giap only, I also cry. omg. The worst thing was when I was entering the departure hall. super duper cannot hold back my tears while hugging dear dear. So I entered the departure hall still wiping my tears. Inside the departure hall, I still had tears. Onboard plane I called dear dear and I cried AGAIN. Then reach Dubai called dear dear, I cried TOO. aiyo. cannot stand myself. haha

On the plane to Dubai, watched some shows. I watched the Korean movie "My Girlfriend is an Agent" which wasn't out in Singapore yet. Anyway don't watch that cos the climax only at the very very end. In the middle quite sianx but funny here and there. Typical slow korean shows. haha. I had a wonderful inflight meal. Love emirates so much cos they provided warm and delicious food. haha. First time I like the inflight meals. Had honey ginger chicken with rice, cheesecake, fruits, biscuits, orange juice. What a spread! There was even a tea time where tuna croissant and blackforest cake(I think) were served. NICE!!

At Dubai, wasn't very bad. Just that I didn't know where to go. Travelling alone sucks with me being so blur. Luckily still found correct place and could WiFi a bit before boarding plane.

On the plane to Frankfurt, I had the whole row of 3 seats to myself. My legs still felt weird no matter how i position myself to sleep. So end up didn't sleep much. Didn't had much for dinner as well cos they served all creamy stuff plus previous flight had 2 meals somemore.

So I arrived in Frankfurt Airport feeling tired and weak. I was so weak that I couldn't even carry my 25kg luggage onto the baggage trolley. A caucasian LADY helped me. Now I see how small and weak I am -.- What's worse, I had to push the trolley up and down escalators just to get to the train ticket machine. After getting the tickets, I still had to go up and down escalators to reach the train station. So I didn't use the trolley after some point and my goodness, I couldn't even pull my own luggage and hand carry. I pulled for like 2m and stopped to rest and I really felt like crying man.

So finally I reached the train station and guess what I saw--the trains had STEPS! On flat ground I also cannot pull already, how to get the luggages up the steps?! What's better, there was an announcement in GERMAN saying that my train was cancelled and had to take another train from ANOTHER platform to Mannheim and transfer to another train. I was too weak to understand the announcement la. It was a german man beside me who's taking the same train as me who told me about it. So had to call my junior to pick me up at Mannheim and we transfer train together. And as expected, I couldn't carry the luggages up the train den people q-ing behind offered to help. so PAISEH! ):

Reached Mannheim and saw Kityeng, I felt so much relieved. *wanted to cry after going thru all these*

And so, a terrible day 1.