Finally managed to use some internet at Dresden. Weird how the Germans are wired totally different from the rest of the world. Even their keyboards are different and we´ve got a really hard time trying to type anything. But we should be taking a short tour around the River Elbe in Dresden today.

So far the tour has been fantastic. Still quite safe and comfortable cuz we´ve been bunking in with people we know. So Dresden is our first venture into something new and unknown. Even finding this damn place took us 30 mins. Quite quiet neighbourhood that´s 20 mins away from city centre. So we don´t intend to go out late like we could in London, even though the sun sets really late during summer.

England was lovely. Mom, you´ll like Hampton Court Palace gardens. Easily take up a whole day just viewing and resting at the gardens. Dad, there´s even a little vineyard found in the court palace. Took a picture of it but we can´t upload cuz we´ve using a very very ancient computer here that can´t read my friend´s camera. But this was lovely. Windsor castle was just as magnificient, although we couldn´t get into the State Apartments for some reason on that day. We suppose it´s cuz the Queen might be resting at her favourite summer house that weekend.

Cambridge is by far my favourite town. Lovely and quaint with much history behind it.All the buildings and colleges are magnificent. So if anyone wants to study in UK, either Cambridge or Oxford (they say that Cambridge is even smaller than Oxford!) All the college towns are usually littered with people cycling around town. In fact, the whole town could be covered by foot, which we did. We also did punting. Some river ride we took where the guide uses a stick to push the little square boat so that it glides along the River Cam. Very enjoyable and we got to see the other views of the colleges and their bridges. Kings College is the most magnificent college there is. Couldn´t enter cuz exam period. And we didn´t do other colleges cuz had to pay some, and we figured that since it´s exam time even going in would mean closed entrance to much of the college grounds. But we still took a free entrance to Downing College (one of those colleges outside of the Cambridge University). I just lurrrvveee this place. Can´t imagine being able to study and graduate here (like Steve Riisnaes and Hannah whom we met at Dave´s home). I´ll cry the day I graduate.

Alritey, need to go now. We´re going to hop downtown in Dresden for breakfast cuz we ran out of sandwiches we bought (we hungry pigs ate all our food on our way here yesterday) Maybe the next time we´ll get internet access is in Prague. But we´re not sure whether we can upload pictures. We snapped like mad (esp me and Steph).

Love you guys!

*liang, i managed to check my email this morning. thanks a lot anyway. nothing impt inside so far.