Utrecht: 6th march: day 38

Utrecht is another city within the Netherlands. There were 6 of us in this trip. Nicely paired up! Let me recall.. me, JH, FC, saba, Johnny, pedro. And this is the thing which chops our tics and validates them before entering the train. The tic normally applies for a particular point to another point and can be used anytime.

And our sporty-looking train arrived!

We found a candy shop in the train station. It had a giant ice-creamm!

Since it was saturday, there was a saturday market as well! We bought waffles there. One thing unique abt utrecht is that the city is centered around several main canals.

Our first stop was this cathedral with a tall tower. It was supposed to be the tallest tower in the city! And as you might have guessed it, we are gonna climb it! Here:

After getting our tics at the friendly VVV (tourist office), we joined a tour group up the tower. And we saw this room with GIANT bells in the midst of our climb:

And this is JH hanging for his dear life, on tt part of the bell that swings to hit the cone!

See how BIG that thing is!! And I took some videos at the top of the tower. I'll join them up and put them on youtube later. Anyway, saba and i saw this cat that jumped up on a tall structure with a plant on top! And it just stood there, waiting for us to take photo of it!

We then went on to explore the cathedral that was half-destroyed by some storm. It still looked great inside.

We walked around a bit more, trying to find an affordable place to eat. We finally ended up back at the station where the rest decided to have KFC. Mee.. I brought in an awesome californian veggi pizza from the new york pizza shop nearby:

And to top that, a meal deal from Albert Heijns supermarket! The meal deal is 4 euros and it has 2 sandwiches, a fruit(i got banana) and a 500ml packet of milk! It is kinda ex when you look at them as being S$8 but my meal ended up being equally as ex as others :D

We met up with Johnny's friend after lunch. We all gathered at this big museum (i forgot what it was called). We then split up. Me, saba and pedro went to the railway museum while the other 3 ppl, together with johnny's friend, went on to see the big museum and the miffy museum. We walked for abt 15 mins to the museum but didn't go in. It was too ex and was gonna close soon! We then went on to walk around the city somemore.

We then went to a music museum which was also closing at that time. We got chased out as we were looking at the shop inside. As we then walked along the canal, we came to a kebab shop. We went in and gave some rest to our tired legs :D After chit-chatting there for a while, we went to walk around more and met the rest at the train station for dinner!

And guess what! I managed to find the 7b cycling route that RUNS BY MY STEEET!

I managed to take this pic of the sunset while we were looking for a place for dinner!

Finally, we ended up at... another kebab restaurant! hahah! I had falafel this time. It came with some salad and broodjie! hahha! And it was called falafel vegetarich too! The last falafel i had was in biz canteen at NUS :P

Anyway we then walked around somemore and decided to call it a day as we took a train back home :D