http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip WWW, the best travelmate/tour guide between me and my friends Thu, 21 May 2009 12:08:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the train to Rome I found I was sharing a compartment with 2 old Italian gentleman. "This is so unattractively inconvenient." I said to myself but decided to put up with what I have got from fate. By the time I had just found the 2 gentlemen ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=43 Astrid is so beautiful. I met her in the Open Mic event in Bookworm early this year, her beaming seemed having brightened the room. Everyone wanted to talk to her, she is a graphical designer from Spain, on her one month trip to visit 18 cities in China, ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=41 Amsterdam is international in all senses. I have never seen this mixed crowd on street except in New York. Netherlands is said the country with highest population density of Europe, Amsterdam must be the citywith highest population density of Europe. It felt like half of the city are tourists, and half of them are ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=38 Just arrived late last night and cozily settled down in my coworker Fabio's house. I am having fun time with Fabio the Second at the moment, who is a super friendly and cool looking young guy. We talked a lot, in fact I tried to help him to ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=35 I am a lady and I am going to blog about shopping. More specifically, I am a lady from China who had never in her whole life seen so many beautiful and luxurious things shown and sold in one place. My feelings and thoughts are mixed. First, of course, I am ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=34 The ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm is famous for over night partying and drinking. I had my own experience of running into groups of young people gathered in hallway, each holding a bottle of beer in their hands, talking and laughing loudly. Very soon I found they were not violently ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=32 Journal wrote using iPhone: I am writing this post on my iPhone... This is a struggle. I will have to upload the picture later since the computer in eurohostel doesn't allow USB uploading. As I stayed one day longer than planned in Tampere and the ferry ticket to Stockholm can't be changed, ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=28 Hosted by COSS in Tampere, the OpenMind conference is the biggest open source conference in Baltic area.  In 2007 the fourth Openmind conference address the topics including: - Linux interoperability and standardisation - Dynamics in open source business alliances and partnerships - Mobile Linux - Open innovation practices - Deployment of open systems in the public sector - ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=27 It is the window of Tampere airport terminal.  I tried put the yellow bar in the position of gold portion (0.618) while cropping the picture, but can only do this approximately with internet tools - missing my photoshop this time. It's been raining this whole morning so I took the opportunity to upload pictures and writing journals.  ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=23 The above pictures were taken while packing.  I was not at all as happy as the picture shows.  I have been wearing myself out in the compulsive cycle of packing and repacking in last 2 days, bearing a weird feeling in my stomach that I must have forgotten something.  I made a check list of all ... http://www.amydotnet.com/EuropeTrip/?p=21