Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

On Visiting Salzburg in Austria

Can anyone tell me what is the two most popular things / attractions that people would not miss when they visit Salzburg in Austria? Let me give you some clues...

Clue #1

The Famous Composer's Violin
Clue #2 : Click on this
So now any idea what is the two most popular things to do in Salzburg?

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

The Heineken Experience

Beer tap connecting the brewer
Not sure you still remember i posted two posts regarding What is this for? and What about this?... These are the parts and pieces of the brewing tools which you can find them in the brewery.

Some readers have guessed the knots/tap are for getting beer. They are absolutely correct about the tap but to be specific, it's getting the beer for testing from the brewer. Each of the beer tap is connected to the different brewer. 


This is the brewer that all the beer ingredient are mixed and cooked in certain temperature before letting the yeast its work... which is the fragmentation process.

The Heineken Experience is located inside the old Heineken Brewery building. This Heineken Experience can be consider as the Museum of Heineken. They have placed lots of artifacts and the stories about how the Heineken beer empire was built. The first part of the museum was telling the stories... blah blah blah




So now let's the experience continue and we gotta see the real things instead of listening to the stories...


Before we went into the brewing site... we were brief  by a person on what is the main ingredient of a Heineken Beer... Anybody wanna guess?

Ingredient to make Heineken Beer
As we walked into the big hall, we saw big brewer lining up in the hall.. All the ingredient were placed into the brewers ... which you can see the brewery house.

the manufacturing line - Brewing Beer
The journey continued with how to appreciate the freshly brewed Heineken Beer... There is a stars shape bar which the bartenders will provide us a small glass of Heineken Beer for appreciating and tasting. I learn quite a bit from the session. The knowledge of why beer need to have a white foam covered it... etc

the stars shape bar
Glass of Heineken Beer for tasting
Next,  the advertisement watching... they projected all different advertisement from around the world in different languages. I never saw most of the advertisement... It's awesome!!! So creative~ Besides the advertisement, Heineken as the company has created some games, merchandise as its brand... including bottle your own beer.

Advertisement watching - Advertisement from the globe
game room
Last but not least... It's Booze Booze time. Each person gets two 1/2 pints of freshly brewed Heineken Beer in exchange with the buttons from the given bracelet when we bought the ticket.  YES! the ticket included the free drink of Beer. But it's a bit of disappointment here as i thought it would be ALL YOU CAN DRINK *wink*

button for free beer
We stayed in the drinking bar until we finished the two 1/2 pints. The surrounding and environment is cool as the music makes the bar likes a nice hangout pub in town. 

So if you happen to be in Amsterdam, do not missed the Heineken Experience eh~

Heineken Experience  @ Heineken Brewery
That's all folks... i have gained the Heineken Experience. Should I include those experience into my resume?

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

What about this?

Anyone know what is this used for and where you can find this?


Tuesday, June 25, 2013

What is this for?

Can anyone guess what is these knob used for?


Wednesday, June 19, 2013

JungFrauJoch - The highest point of Europe

What TZ did on this year April fool? hahaha... TZ visited the highest point of Europe called JungFrauJoch - Top of Europe. The highest point that you may visit is located at 11,782ft / 3,571m above the sea level.

How to get there?
You have to take a two hours train from Interlaken to Kleine Scheidegg and switched to another train to go up to the JungFrauJoch - Top of Europe station. The journey took 2 hours from Interlaken including the transit to the top. The train fare cost CHF179 return which equivalent to RM716.

Train to JungFrauJoch - Top of Europe @ Kleine Scheidegg
@ the Top of Europe, you will experience the feeling of gasping for breath as the air is thinner. 
Anyway, how's the view at the top?

First view via window when we first arrived @ the top
Information Board regarding the height of the place
the 100 years old building, underneath is the railway that brought us up
 
the view of Top of Europe in video clip

As we walked along to the other side of the building we were directed to the Icy Glacier area of the mountain. This is an interesting area as the floor, ceiling, wall were made of ice. i.e. we are inside the glacier.

Tunnel inside glacier
Met the Pooh family
Trying to squeeze myself through a small and narrow tunnel
We stayed there for half a day and decided to leave the place to head back to Interlaken to do some shopping and later catch our train back to Zurich for our connecting train to Brussel, Belgium. There will be another adventure in Brussel, Belgium eh~

JungFrau
JungFrauJoch - Top of Europe is a worth to visit as we have experienced quick a number of things which we would not be able to find them in Malaysia
  1. The high altitude gasping for breath cause it's 11,782ft above sea level about 2.5 times higher than Mt. Kinabalu.
  2. Walking and half sliding on the icy floor inside the Glacier. Squeeze through the small tunnel inside the Glacier
  3. Sit in the train that climb up the mountain with spectacular view of the rocky Alps mountain range
  4. Amazing long tunnel inside the mountain range which is built 100 years ago
  5. JungFrauJoch got its Unesco World Heritage status on 2001   

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Cellini Salt Cellar

If you have read my earlier post regarding Historical Artifact created by Benvenuto. Are you able to guess what is this historical artifact used for?

Cellini Salt Cellar front view
It's a Salt Cellar on the dining table. Yes it's a very beautiful piece of art sculpture created by Benvenuto Cellini in 1543. There are two sculptures Male and Female. The Male sculpture represent the sea and the Female sculpture represents the earth.

Let's have a 360 view of the Salt Cellar... Can you see the detail on the sculpture itself?

Cellini Salt Cellar - Side View
Another Side view... How about the sculpture in the house, look at how define is the sculpture.

Cellini Salt Cellar - Side View
Okay let's turn around and see the other side of the view... which i considered the back view of the Salt Cellar. Can you see those sculpture beneath the bowl?

Cellini Salt Cellar - Behind View
Do you know where would the salt being placed in this Salt Cellar? If you guess the bowl... You are right! The salt was placed in the bowl beside the male sculpture.

So, what do you think about the Cellini Salt Cellar?