Travels Abroad: April 2012

ITALY

Okay, July 2011, I know, but I posted so much I might as well.

Pompeii

Pompeii

Mt. Vesuvius from...the Herculean?

tsk tsk

Sorrento

Pompeii

Pompeii I think

Herculean

Don't remember, but it's pretty!

Ok, these posts aren't in order. The room post and hill and building were from September/October, the food posts are from September to now, then the Christmas (Dec) post, then Switzerland (Feb), then the Museum (last week).

Switzerland

I have a friend in Switzerland who agreed to show me around for a few days in the Winter. First you see Switzerland's iconic mountain, which is also featured on the...T..tolberone? chocolates. I actually went up to get a closer view of this mountain

Here. It was...minus 34? degrees Celsius. I forget, but it was cold. COLD. When I got back to London, I braced myself for the cold but it was only 9 degrees Celsius. Felt like summer.

Sweets! Not all mine. I just had the bun and spicy hot chocolate.

I love European buildings with paintings on the walls. Italy had those too.

This was in front of a museum I went to. Let me see if I have this right, I *think* there were some soldiers for some non Swiss guy and something happened and they all died? I don't remember. It's a nice monument though.

Okay, so in Switzerland, Punch is a warm drink. It's good though, Kinda like fruit tea.

Christmas

I didn't have internet access during christmas week which was annoying, but I was able to spend time with my chinese friends and had hot pot! Not everything pictured is vegan, but I only ate the tofu and the noodles. The brownies pictured are vegan banana brownies, made by me. I thought they were overdone so I put a lot of frosting on them, but they were actually very rich and just fine.