Thursday, September 28, 2006
The Diary: Bringin' you to Europe Part 2.
Hello. :)
I think i'm going to take weeks to blog bout the whole trip if i continue to remain at this speed. Some said i might take a month. Well well, i'll speed up!
okie dokie. I had some great fun yesterday, as well as today. Both days were really really nice. :)
Went to find Selene at Ice cube yerterday after my tuition as she was there with her friend. Cousin Junlynn came shortly after that and we sat abit to talk together before Junny and me headed to Coffee bean for dinner, ok, supper then. I have to admit the Roasted chicken and mushroom Fusilli still taste as good as last time. You should try it if you are a creamy pasta lover! :D
Did some nice catchin up with Junny, and hope she's enjoying her work right now! See you soon Junny, we shall have loads of time to catch up, have fun, and to get busy with Monopoly next Sat! The one that is the first to get bankrupt will be thrown into the POOL! :D
Oh yes, Its 8 days to my birthday!
And i'm gonna have a Family BBQ night on that very actual day at my"fairy" godmother's condo since it falls on a Saturday too. And I am thankful to my cousin Junlynn and godma for the trouble to help to prepare the food and all. :)
I slept till 3pm today which was pretty horrible man. Krys called me for a couple of times to wake me but i didnt hear them.
So met up with krys at Garden's liquid kitchen at round 5.30 and chilled for bout 2 hours. Had a great time updatin each other and i'm gonna meet her Tomorrow for lunch! :DDD
Went off to meet Apple sickoo after that! We didnt see each other for Months if im not wrong! Finally we met and chatted nonstop at some coffeeshops where she was having her dinner. Nice! :D
Okay, now. Europe time.
11th September 2006
Weather was good. It was cooling yet not very cold. And the Sun came out too, but well, its still cooling. Nice weather.
The view from the Hotel room.
Daddy, Mom and i went out after preparing and we walked around to find a place that has buses like this.
It's operated by The Big Bus company and it was a one day tour around London. You could hop on and drop at any bus stop they stop, anytime and as much as you want to. Those busstops are near to quite some attractions in London such as the Madame Tussad's Museum, London's Eye, Big Ben, Tower of London. Since we were free and easy that day, and didnt know where to walk in London, we joined this tour. And man, it cost us 20 pounds (bout S$60!) each for the ticket! NOT including the entry to the attractions, which means it was only for bus rides!!!!
Please bear with me, i think i'm gonna complain bout the prices and all often for this trip.
Well, we had one free river cruise but it was nth much.
Thats the 2nd deck of the bus.
Dad and Mom.
We were given a map of the stops where the bus will be goin to, as well as where to stop for those attractions that we want to see.
So first stop was the TOWER OF LONDON.
Okay, this is not the Tower of London yet.
We passed by the Fish and chips store, and decided to have our lunch there! It was a take away. And we ordered One set to share as we were not really hungry.
Those small puddles are sauces.
Okay, cause they were so many and i wanted to try all of them. Greedy yes.
Tower of London is actually a castle/palace!
Here it is!
This is the place that displayed the MOST valuable crowns of the kings, queens, princess wore before their deaths and it has the most expensive diamonds and all on each of them. They were displayed at one of the Towers and No cameras are allowed there. So i couldn't get any shot of it.
Well, but the main attraction of the tower of London is the crowns.
I saw people who were dressed up like this there.
Inside...
Yeah, dad said we shouldnt Block those soldiers behind us.
The soldiers were marchin and changin shifts at that time and well, they must stand at that location, cannot move and have no expression for hours! And what more, they are facing everybody.
The tower of london is the place that the queens, kings and all lived when they are alive, and the different sections of the palace, such as their kitchens, church, their bedrooms etc etc. To see their whole palace.
Tower of London cost us 18 pounds each. -.-
The next location was the LONDON EYE.
We sat the cruise to cross over to the London Eye.
saw this..
We reachedand packed Macdonalds to eat during the London Eye ride. And what What what, the Mac meal cost round 7 pounds each (round S$21). For one meal of burger, drink, fries that you can easily get it in Sg's mac for $6-7. *slaps forehead*
Yeah, that's the one!
Yup, we have to go in one of those round cubicles and it will turn one round slowly and let you enjoy the scenery as well as taking photos.
Well well, it certainly turned slowly which approximately took about 1 hour. Im not kidding! And before we enter, we have to pass through the Security?!! They will check our bags.
Alright Alright, i'ts a better version of the turnin wheel where you see in themeparks. And 15 pounds each. Woo! -.-
But well, we got ourselves views like this...
All these took us bout half the day, and since we started out at a time near to noon, we ended slightly before evenin and sat the bus again to catch a view of some of the famous attractions, frequent places, busy places and some old prominent buildings.
Such as.....
the London's Hard Rock Cafe.
London's Bridge!
Old telephone booths.
There are many in London. Or rather, most of their telephone booths are like that.
Big Ben!
This is Famous. But i have no idea why is it called the Big Ben. And guess what. Big Ben AIN'T the whole place.
It is refering to this.
The clock's name is Big Ben.
And then,
The London's Dungeon.
Some sort of Haunted house i guess.
If i didnt remember wrongly, it used to be a place where they put the prisoners.
St. Thomas Hospital.
Biggest 3D cinema in London.
Theaters.
Watchin A musical in London is like watchin a movie in Singapore. Well, they have more musical theaters than movie theaters! We wanted to watch one, but then it is not cheap still. Sigh.
Some buildings that i've mentioned...
Then i saw this..
They were Real women posing there! you can imagine the attention the shop has gotten!
And thats me.
We joined the night walk around in London, and there will be a guide who will bring you around, telling you different scary digusting ghost story about this particular place. Well, it sure brought goosebumps to me upon hearing them. But dad was not listenin most of the time. While we stood there, he will walk about to one corner see see look look. So in the end, we were tired of walkin and we headed back to our area.
And we went to have Chinese cusine!
WOO!!!
Mom said im digusting when i took this picture.
you can never guess the price of the dishes, or rather, the whole meal. Freakingggggggggg expensive.
And lastly, back to the Hotel.
I bought this on the way..
It's s a famous brand of chips in London. You dont see Lays at all. You see this in every supermarket, provision etc.
And i've to admit that the chips really are tasty, and they tasted exactly the same according to the taste that was written on the packet. Ok, what i meant was, i previously bought a packet of this chips in BBQ RIBS flavor. The first thing that came to my mind upon seeing the description was that it will most probably taste like BBQ chips, spicy spicy sweet sweet. BUT, i can taste the RIBSSSSS!! -.- And the ribs taste made the chips horrible to eat.
So well, the Cheese Onion was nice.
But yeah, the Roasted chicken certainly do have the real chicken taste, which is kinda weird and eeeeww.
Well, i gotta end here. Continue soon again. I'll speed up i promise!
CIAO and Au Revoir!
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