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Monday, May 12, 2008

Romania

At this moment I'm drinking a beer and checking emails in my couch-host's home.

It's a wonderful experience to be hosted here in Timisoara! My hosts are a pair of couple and they helped me a lot. They even found me connections in other parts in Romania! I feel so grateful about that and wish I can do more than just saying thank you. It's beautiful.

There's not really much to see in Timisoara and I kind of walking on the same streets repeatedly. Here is where they started the revolution in 1989 so there must be a lot of stories! I asked my hosts about the bloody and bad times in the old days and learnt a bit about the situation. It's really cool. I really want to try some Romania food in the rest of my trip ...

In hours I will proceed to Sibiu.

 

It seems that so much is happening in Hong Kong. Someone's killed and chopped into pieces, earthquake made 10000 people dead ... and so on ... crazy. And very sad.


Sunday, May 11, 2008

Finally arrived in Romania.

Spent 2 days in Prague and 2 days in Budapest. Prague is really beautiful and I could have spent one more day there if I have more time and found a cheaper place to stay. Been to two interesting museums and spent the whole day reading the information. Communist dictatorship is a big theme concerning the history of these east european cities (not to neglect the Nazi invasion), so probably every capital city will contain couple of museums dedicate to this brutal part of history. 

Budapest sucks. Bad impression starting from a night train experience. I was not robbed but was 'checked' from time to time by those thiefs. They are real craps. Stepping out of the main train station in Budapest, you can see people in similar faces in groups gathering in those busy metro station and in open areas. It is just not safe. Hassled by groups of men as usual. Confusing information from the train station, plus very bad service no matter how polite you are. Views are not that fascinating to me too. Things could be a lit bit cheaper but still not worth the price. Very disappointed.

the trip continues...


Tuesday, May 06, 2008

g4

連日天氣都很好,心情都輕鬆起來!

大學前草地上都是人,或坐或臥,或看書或聊天或飲啤或睡覺或踢足球或打鼓 (可用來跳 Capoeira)。

g3
很喜歡踢足球的小朋友 ... 無論一個人"猜"、幾個人猜都咁開心,仲踢到除衫。佢本來係身穿 Ronaldinho 的十號巴塞球衣。

g2
無線上網

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染了黑色頭髮紫紅色 hightlight 的朋友 K

再學拳。消失兩星期的同學 C 回來了,他說病足兩星期! 他常被教練請來示範 (被打),但他的技術真的不錯,人亦很友善,我很喜歡他。回程時 mitfahren 傾左一陣。回家後和 tutor 一起站著吃飯,傾了成個鐘。真是不錯的一天 ~


Monday, May 05, 2008

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將近晚上九點仍是這樣 ... 難怪我有 jet lag 了!

今天乘巴士回家,有一名有一定年紀的叔叔跟我們搭訕;言談間他問我,在香港或中國,是否很流行動手術把眼睛弄大一點 ... ...我們糾正他說應該是韓國。你看,我們都是這樣互相去想像對方和別的國家與文化的。

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看別人的羅馬尼亞遊記,越看越覺不妥 ... 哈哈,很多不是太正面的資訊,行騙、野狗、火車誤點、停電、垃圾、塞車、交通混亂 ... 就是一鑊粥。不過也沒差,也是一種學習。對羅國歷史認識極少,只知道是有過共產暴君、極權統治、民生不穩的地方。

又聽聞羅國國內旅遊資訊做得不好,所以我第一次買 Lonely Planet,雖然也覺得不是太必要 (主要是我不需要佔一半篇幅的貴酒店和貴餐廳的資訊),而且 LP 的特點就是口水多,經常令我有失實感覺。希望有用吧! 聽說羅國最自豪是有個山 (雖然同時又說因為大興土木以致寸山不生),我也想走走看,希望到時會遇到善良的志同道合者,和我一起同行吧。

在某討論區看到這個。應該是三月才來 Bonn 的台灣學生。去旅行貪心和懶是很正常的,可是這幾條友也真的過份,十天遊東歐四國首都,預算花 300-400歐。其實多付 10 歐買張機票就可以早8 小時去到目的地,可以看齊要看的皇宮、教室和城堡 ,既然有訓街的準備,那交通工具的錢就多花點點吧;住宿... 去hostelworld.com 都只需要 3 秒吧。連 DB 網站都唔識用 ... 仲同人講係德國住緊?

另外,我發現有不少人對 railpass 都有幻想,以為一張 pass 真係抵玩抵用,坐火車又浪漫云云。我沒有用過,但我搵料的經驗所得,一般跨境 railpass 的日數都很短,而且又要兼顧火車班次,所以買了 pass 之後其實已為旅程加添了壓力。而且坐巴士也是一個很好的選擇,至少巴士可以上到山,有其他風光,也更便宜,有些路段火車和巴士的行車時數差不多。不過這些資訊對 9-10 天遊四國的人來說,當然沒意思。歐洲有很多 cheap flights,不只是 ryanair,有時一些門面貴的公司也有很好的 offer (當然 air berlin 就錯哂,永不跌價)。

但在德國境內旅行用 railpass 的話,應該無失手,因為城市之間的交通費真的很貴,除了坐火車外幾乎沒選擇 (巴士只有極少數大城市之間有 link),又沒理由坐 RB 搖7、8小時,所以不能自行駕車的話,就一定要坐火車。不過聽說德國是 hitchiking 勝地,我仍在計劃 hitchiking 去 Hamburg;另外也有 mitfahren 跟司機 share 油錢的網站,可以一試。

對了,特區護照真的很好用,在很多歐洲及鄰近國家也免簽證,雖然有些是我想得出要去但沒免簽證的國家,如 Syria;只是看到台灣同學到英國要簽證,到摩洛哥要簽證,到土耳其要簽證,就不得不佩服祖國真的多朋友。當然,香港只是地圖上的一點,我好幾次過關都較費時,要 check 香港是否免簽證;如果你是大香港的話,一定會嘴藐藐,故事教訓就是,不要被那國際都會的傳說昏了頭 (看最近的反和平示威就是了,唉)。

 

六月 ryanair 有「零機價」去波蘭,我疊埋心水走堂去了!!

找資料時看到這 blog,還好 --


"Instead of running from pain, which is the natural thing in life, in boxing you step into it, get me?"

F.X.Toole

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跟舊同事電郵來往。大家都既難過又痛心又不安,提起香港的各個方面就令人搖頭嘆息不已。

謾罵疾呼都沒有用,寫什麼類型的文章都沒有用,沒有人能改變甚麼。

此刻我真的很敬佩一些從前在學生會、校報認識的朋友,他們求公義的堅持。

現在我很擔心的是,香港越來越大陸化,越來越多內地的意見湧入,我怕連六四這些議題也會漸漸在網上被"撥亂反正",關於異見份子、維權者的報導越來越片面,最後,被完全吞沒。越來越多遊行示威被標纖為搞事、亂國,法X功在香港被清理 (無論你喜歡不喜歡、了解不了解他們,他們的存在是香港還有言論或什麼自由的象徵)。還有我們喜愛的繁體字等等。然後在 google 有越來越多敏感字眼被封殺,無得 search,令很多人以為世界咁細,有些概念不存在,在中國生存很快樂。想起就覺得很恐怖。

看看那些網上討論區,真的很不安。看見有一則是說「民主是少數服從多數」,套入近日發生的事的話,真的死得。還有很多關於權、人權、自由的討論,我不敢講大多數人都在講廢話,只是他們談不在上在「討論」。不知道那些"心智未成熟"的年青人讀了會怎樣,畢竟,以香港的保守程度來說,這些人還真蠻多的。

 

六四快到了,我在找一件有平反六四字樣 (最好有埋英文),在歐洲穿著,悼念死難者。

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