And now I am backkkkkkk! What a wonderful trip, this would be the best sem break I've ever had!
It's a spontaneous trip that I actually 'informed' my parents that I would be going England and meet my bestie, who is studying in Liverpool. I've been longing for a YOLO trip for soooo long! Before I buy my tickets, this thinking was just in my mind, one day, something got me so mad and I straight away booked return tickets from Expedia.com
It costed me around RM2.4k, I took a picture, asked my bestie for last confirmation, and made payment. I feel nothing on that day but after that, I feel really sucks... I've never been for a trip before, as in, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PLAN!!!!!!!
Another thing made me feel panic is I had never spend so much money before after the iphone6S+, I was staring at my bank account and ... fxck ya just make myself broke!
#YOLO
Flight transfer at Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Ok then Alyssa and I Skyped, discussed where and what we gonna do in England, it was my sem break, we read a lots of blogs, did researches of England, my laptop never shut down because there were so many chrome tabs, after that she asked me to try other country in Europe because it's quite a waste if I travel only in England. Somehow she found out that her assignments summation was right after the holidays, which means she was not able to have the bestie trip anymore, but she promised me to spare few days for me <3
At first I was freaked out but the next second I feel YOLO hahaha! Solo trip was in my bucket list for so long and finally I can check it out ! Yoo-hoo
So I list out where I wanna go, its just 19 days, so I have to pick those I really wanna go.
I set budget around RM10k because all of the bloggers I found used around 8k to 10k.
I will do a list later when I'm free... if I'm free..
Sooner, my school starts and I stopped planning because UTAR is University tak ada rehat, I actually put 'plan the fxcking trip' in my planner like so many times, I ignored them eventually.. until one day, Alyssa said Seimin will be going England to find Canon too, Canon is having same course with Alyssa, so he wasn't able to accompany Seimin for the trip after December too so she asked me if I want to go with her, at least we can take care of each other.
Stress is the only way that can push me, so Seimin I am so sorry you were my stress HAHA I sucks at planning and I was like whattt I am going to plan with someone else????? It was really stressful, really really stressful.
She said she will follow my plan and I was like I didn't even have any plan.. I roughly made my first plan as fast as lightning. The route was like this: England, Italy, France, and Netherlands.
Seimin followed me to Italy together her trip had to be ended on 6th of Jan. Italy is such a big place, there were so many places I wanna go but it's just 6 days time for us in Italy, I asked Vina for precious opinion because she is the only person I know who travel a lot. Canon suggested us to go Manarola, so we decided to go Rome, Pisa, Manarola and Milan.
Me and Seimin started to find accommodations from airbnb because I am lazy person I hate doing research, so I just search from what I always see from the advertisement. Thanks to Seimin she did the most and made me feel so small.. x( useless me.
And I was free, she was having exam, and she was free, I was having exam, and when we both were free, she was already in England and we didn't managed to have time and plan together.
During my free time I actually searched and booked my accommodation, it's winter, I don't wanna die in coldness. The dorms I booked were from Agoda.com and Booking.com, Agoda.com got really cheap dorm, 14-mix dorm is the cheapest, which means you will be sleeping with 14 people, it's bunk beds, not on the floor.
To save more money, I booked night bus or early morning flight to the next destination so I can sleep in the bus during the long journey or sleep at the airport so I can catch the early flight too.
I made rough plans for my accommodation and wrote down the time of flights
After my final exam, I just bought my backpack(75L) and it costed me only RM60 from Lazada, after this trip I'm gonna call it disposable backpack, here's the pictures.
bad stitching, canvas is thin, looks weak.
Deciding what to wear and how many clothes I need to bring is the hardest thing for me because I only got 5 days left after exam. Everything was too rush and I haven't even get my backpack. Luckily i received on time, the next challenge is, what you need to bring.
I borrowed 3 coats, some of my friends asked me to bring 1 or 2, just bring 1 and some said 3 because she doesn't want to look the same in every pictures.
OK I brought 3 because on of my friend's said different countries have different weather, 3 different coats can deal with it.
Lesson #1
if you're first timer and you gonna use backpack too, bring 1 is enough :D don't be stupid like me. Cry...
Long johns and sweaters are more important. Coats will just limit the space in your backpack, I won't bring 3 again if I'm not gonna use big luggage.
Lesson #2
Bring only things you really need, if you still can live without them, leave them at home.
I brought many photographing gadgets, in the end I just used the mini tripod and my selfie sticks. The stupidest thing is I brought book, because I scared that I couldn't sleep in the flights, no wifi there so I was thinking to read a book so it can make me sleepy. heh
I brought 3 knitted sweater too, they couldn't be compressed much using the compression bags, really waste the space.
My backpack was 9.9kg + 1 kanken bag when I left malaysia, and 12kg + 1 extra cabin luggage and kanken bag when I came back.
I reached airport at night, my family and I had dinner at the airport together. It was my father's birthday on the following day so we bought a cake, simple celebration at the airport <3
I think this is the end. Stay tuned to my next post!!!
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