that's me in budapest!
I just came back from a 7 day tour of Hungary, Czech Republic, and Austria last night and it was quite an amazing experience with so many sites to see and history to learn about (hard to put into words, I’ll post pictures later on). Since there was a lot of walking and hotel hopping, I packed a minimal amount of gear which served me quite well during this trip:
- Sony Vaio P Notebook – I wanted to travel as light as possible so my MacBook Pro 15″ and even my HP TX2500 Tablet PC had to stay home. This little baby weighs about a pound and was extremely useful to get online at the LAX, JFK, and Vienna Airports as well as the hotels with WiFi in Europe. Some of the hotels provided free WiFI and a few charged 10 Euros per hour! I had Skype loaded to make phonecalls to home and used it to Wiki places I visited during the day.
- iPod Touch 2G – When traveling long flights, this is definitely a necessity. the iTouch kept me from going out of my mind while sitting on the airplane so I could listen to some music, podcasts, and even play a few games on flight. Also, it came in handy to quickly hop online without having to turn on the laptop.
- Sony Cybershot DSC-T70 Camera – I took well over a thousand photos during this trip. Love the fact that it’s so small, easy to use and takes decent quality pictures (not as great as a Canon camera though). I do however wish it had better battery life. I was down to 1 bar on the battery meter when I was 3/4 done with the day. I guess it was due to the fact that I took about 200 pictures a day!
- Universal Power Convertors – Without these, everything above will be useless! I’m glad I didn’t forget to pack these to charge my devices.
- Rado Jubile’ Watch – Tells the time and date. Sleek, simple and elegant, and has a black ceramic band. Wasn’t too flashy but it does its job quite well!
Update: Pictures from Central Europe posted here.
