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Day 11: Budapest to Pandorf to Vienna

Not pictured here is the morning's trip to the shopping outlet Pandorf near Vienna. The outlet is huuuuge, with stores such as SuperDry, Prada, Michael Kors, Miu Miu, Ralph Lauren and the like. It started snowing when we arrived, so that was a lucky surprise - the trees and roads were peppered white. Purchased 2 bags here with some shirts and presents for the brother/dad. I have to talk about the tax refund process because of the grief it gave me. You are able to do refunds at Pandorf, but it's very troublesome. 

Day 6: Poznan to Krakow, Krakow to Auschwitz

I have to say this leg of the trip was pretty heavy, like the mood and all, because I guess the tour guide wanted to convey the severity of the atrocities suffered by the Jewish population in Europe during WWII. He was showing Schindler's List on the bus - although it was a great movie, it did give this part of the tour a more serious tone.

Sooo, am now about a week in after my trip to Europe. There're posts on that coming soon, I promise. I've been caught up with this course and exam this week (long story...) so I'll have to save the pictures and posts of Europe for the week after.

But in all seriousness, Europe was so awesome. I think I didn't really appreciate it as much when I went to Spain/Portugal in 2015 because I didn't put in as much effort absorbing all the culture and remembering the details of all the architecture we visited. So what happened was that I couldn't really differentiate all the various places when I looked at the photographs of the Spanish trip. This time round, I was really determined to make the best of the holiday and not be as overwhelmed, so I spent a lot of time on the bus reading up the historical facts of the places we visited. And also honestly I wanted to be able to talk about the destinations I visited to people who would ask, which I wasn't able to do for Spain (which I regret tremendously...!)

Just a teaser of the posts to come, we visited the following places on our 2 week tour of East Europe (in this order):

Czech Republic: Prague and Czesky Krumlov

Germany: Dresden and Berlin

Poland: Warsaw and Krakow

Hungary: Budapest

Slovakia: Banska Bystrica

Austria: Vienna and Salzburg

Germany: Munich

I can't wait to do the posts of the trip! But I have to get back to my books now (which are btw, killing me T_T). It's all going to be over by Saturday so I thank the heavens for that. Also, I am kind of missing work and the routine of it so looking forward to that on Monday.

Till Saturday,

S