Greetings from Salzburg

Ini adalah trip utama kami..me melepaskan janji nak bawak Z pi tengok concert kat Salzburg if she got all As for her UPSR. Itu dah dekat sedekad yang lampau.Apa nak buat..we were all too busy and belum diizinkan Allah untuk sampai ke sini.

Mozart lahir di sini.Filem Sound of Music juga dibuat di sini.Mcm Budapest, Salzburg menjadi rebutan pembikin filem Hollywood.Memang cantik.Tempat ini dah wujud sebelum Nabi Isa lahir lagi.Lepas tu Kerajaan Rom takluknya di kurun ke 8.Penuh sejarah tetapi malangnya kami tidak dapat lama..Nik nak mengejar waktu utk ke Hong Kong utk program kerjanya.Memang pelik jadual kerja kami kali ini.Saya di HK sebelum trip ke sini.Nik ke HK selepas trip ini.

Some pics (not in order cos' saya tengah mengantuk)

shops in Salzburg

From the cruise in Salzburg

From the hotel window we were in Salzburg

Buskering at the foot of Festung

Our cruise captain was a British Naval Captain

View of Salzburg from our dining table at the Festung

also view from the fort

ah Austrian dessert...

one of the statues at Mirabell Garden

open space at the foot of Festung

ini pun

from foot looking at the top (naik cable car yang canggih manggih)

magnificent

My all time favourite pic.Mcm film James Bond, kan?

Tengok je..tak mampu beli..

Salmon dish since Hong Kong! But Austrian style lain sikit rasanya.
Sedap!

The concert (tak leh ambik gambar while they play)

The station we arrived at from Budapest (train-bus-train cos' of the flood)
If you go via Munich lagi dekat..about an hour or so je from Munich on the train.
5 hours from Budapest via Vienna

Kesan banjir tu ada lagi.Strong river current!

Mcm ni strong nya!

Masa ni captain British tu tengah pecut.Air tengah dalam, he said

Salzburg in the evening.It is also a ski resort

Can't get over this.Mesmerising!

Mirabell Garden.Tempat Sound of Music being filmed

Mirabell Garden

Still at Mirabell.Can see Festung from here

The family with our kind taxi driver, Andrea who stopped at Mirabell after knowing
 we didn't have time to go there.

Roses, roses, roses

Nik said the garden in Hamilton dekat rumah Norman Simms lagi cantik

Lavender

If only my roses grow like this

Greetings from Budapest

 tasik yang cantik

 on the way from Budapest to Salzburg (train view)

 where Matthew parked his car to walk to our apt (tak jauh)

 the street of our apt ..central of Pest

 Dekat apt kami ada restoran Syria yang halal

 Apartment di Budapest yang perfect.With caretaker Matthew yang budiman (picked us at the airport..tolong belikan kita tickets ke Salzburg dan my Hungarian jazz cd)

 Promosi pakaian musim panas..model nya menari2 di belakang dinding kaca

 Depa dah tiru beca kita

 Begini le bilik tidur at youth hostel tu.This room has 5 beds

but we had 3 beds and tak perlu kongsi2 dgn org lain

 On the way back to Manchester at a youth hostel in Budapest

where we had to wash our own dishes (ala2 backpackers gitu)

Trust budak kecik to book your holiday (Z booked all) !

 cili kering is used as a decor in the Hungarian tradition

 The cruise we took on the Danube

Budapest Parliament House by the Danube

breakdancing buskers in Budapest

Me so happy that there's a halal Syrian restaurant on the same street as our Apt.Syukur

Fruit sticks to promote summer wear at a shop

Roma? Nengok nasib on the street of Budapest
(Pest side)

We flew from Manchester to Budapest yesterday.I love this city cos' it's walkable.We walked along Danube River after lunch at a Syrian halal restaurant near our apartment. We are right at the city centre..money changer at our doorstep, souvenir shop, Danube is like 10 mins walk.MasyaAllah...Allah knew how much this break was needed.I tak cuti dah lama.

We took a one hour cruise on Danube.The Turks (read Muslims) ruled Hungary for 250 years so the cuisine, rupa org2 kat sini mcm Turkish juga.

Pics later.I takut nak go phone roaming lagi so updating the blog isn't real time.Only when there's free wi-fi.

Harap maklum.

Wedding anniversary in Manchester

Lagu for Nik

 Din lives in Manchester now (dah PR) with his wife, an accomplished

architect.Both are NZ alums

 Fairuz (left), Yam (who is also an accomplished career woman...dalam setahun, almost setiap bulan she has to travel the world on her job with an international company.She's based in Manchester but ada ura2 kena move to London soon.She said nasib baik bukan South Africa ke). Semua ni NZ alums.I am so proud of these women.They dined with us on our 26th anniversary.Meriah la sikit, kan?

 View from our hotel in Manchester (yang di bawahnya pub)

 From our hotel window

The whole gang at Try Thai in Manchester (on 14/6/13)

Alhamdulillah selamat sampai in Manchester on June 14 and checked in the hotel in the city.It's above a pub.Z did the booking.Then we went to eat Thai at Try Thai with my NZ alumni
friends, living and working in Manchester.Alhamdulillah sedap gila.

I say syukur ke hadrat Allah the flights were not delayed from HK, Doha.I would not be able to spend my anniversary on time had that happened.