This trip took a place in my history as the most expensive shopping that I ever did overseas. Never to be repeated. I bought an Omega watch and an orange colour pearl set set in Lucerne. I also bought a diamond ring in Amsterdam.
On hindsight, the watch was a useful buy. The other two were just nice-to-have. I got caught in a shopping frenzy. I plead temporary insanity ;P Lesson learnt. Nowadays whenever I travelled, I will only buy their local food and fridge magnets :)
The other unique thing about this trip was half of the tour members disappeared in London! I was told that this phenomenon was not uncommon. It seemed like the Western Europe tours arranged by our local travel agents were used as a means for the youngsters to get to London to work illegally. No wonder some of them didn't even look like tourists and the tours even though expensive were always sold out.
The youngest in the "jump ship" group was 18 years old with tattoos on his body. But I think he was detained and not allowed to enter London. They probably sent him back to Brussels. The young ladies and some of the young men managed to get in. Now you know why the UK Government want to slap entry visas on us.
This trip was organised by Parlo Tours. It was from 25 March to 4 April 2004. There was a stopover at Doha and like the last time, we were given a free Doha tour. I'm sharing two photos of Doha. The weather was very pleasant this time round :)
The price of the tour was RM5.5k per person. We covered 11 cities / towns: Paris, Lucerne, Engelberg (Mount Titlis), Heidelberg, Schaffhausen (Rhine Falls), Lake Titisee (Black Forrest), Cologne, Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Doha. 7 countries in 11 days: France, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, England and Qatar.
Although it was pretty hectic, it was a very enjoyable trip . The weather was superb too. The scenery were awesome! I've uploaded 243 photos of this trip for your viewing pleasure.
You can access them at my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/mkhasha.n.travels/. Go to the photo albums.
Njoy!!
