United Kingdom - London

Trip: 20th June 2013 - 23rd June 2013


20th June 
London! Met my anneh to have lunch at the famous four seasons restaurant.

Fried rice, pork belly, belachan veggie, brinjal and duck! finally some more authentic chinese food after so long!

Somehow, the waiters and waitresses don't seem to be polite and are pretty impatient as per reviews on the internet. The food tastes good though. This lunch cost us 14 pounds per person :X

And then we went on to the british museum. The best part of it is: It's free! So it's pretty crowded.

One of the many statues found inside the museum.

Met up with another anneh at the museum! :D so happy to see them after so many months!

After the museum, we went to have pancake. Delicious!

Greek pancake and I forgot the name of the rest hahaha...

 Annehs then brought us around some places in London :)

Saw this really cool sofa sand sculpture. That guy still can sit on it! Really cool.

21st June

Didn't really have a good sleep because the hostel that we booked sucks :| I have never seen a 3 beds bunk bed before. Even when I'm so short I keep knocking my head. Le terrible.

After breakfast, we went to the famous Beatles's crossing at Abbey's road to take photo! We were caught by surprise that there were many tourists there taking photo as well. What really amused me were the drivers reactions while waiting for tourists to do the iconic Beatles walk and taking photos. Nevertheless, we joined in the fun.

Finally got our turn to cross the zebra crossing and take a photo.

Although amused, still sian that everyone is doing the same thing over and over again

Then we went to the buckingham palace to watch the changing of guards. Since we were not early (and plus the fact that I'm not tall), I couldn't see a thing at all! T.T could only see the guards marching out of the gate (and prolly return home. haha)

At least I get to see a little portion! hahaha

We had a hard time trying to find each other in the huge crowd. Not to forget we stopped by a tourist shop to buy stuff!  Thus we were late for the Harry Potter studio tour. Luckily, the entrance timing is just the earliest time you can enter.

So cute! If I don't have luggage restrictions I would have gotten all these.

Thus we were late for the Harry Potter studio tour. Luckily, the entrance timing is just the earliest time you can enter.

And we get to try the one and only... Butterbeer!!!!

The smallest cup cost 2.95 pounds. But still it's worth it :)

While waiting for the bus, we saw a zebra crossing and decides to do the Beatles' crossing pose again; except that this time it's a different crossing without tourist. heheheh :D

The sky was really beautiful and we took a jump shot! :))

We spent the whole afternoon at the Harry Potter studio and left at 9pm D:  So we went to somewhere nearby to find dinner.

Nandos! 

22nd June

So we set off to buy musical tickets, and happen to come across chinatown. After which we went to visit the london bridge, of which the weather wasn't in favour of us.

At Piccadily Circus

It was really too windy and we decided to give up our site seeing plan and do shopping at Oxford street, where we bought a lot of clothes ;) [THE BIG BIG PRIMARK IS THERE! :D]

We also had our lunch in one of the Italian restaurants. It took us 2 hours to have our main course, of which we expected much more. Morever it cost 10 pounds for this meal. ><

After shopping for some time, we went to watch the muscial: les miserables! The musical is really awesome and something different. Hope I have the chance to come London again to watch more musicals!

Earlier in the day, we saw a restaurant that was selling Malaysia and Singapore food and decided to return there for dinner after the musical.

Carrot cake, kangkong, rojak and my long craved hokkien mee! Although it didn't taste as good as those in Singapore, it's enough to satisfy part of my craving already :D

I insisted on visiting the tower bridge after dinner (LOL) and thankfully we didn't regret the choice.

The tower bridge is more magnificent at night! 

23rd June

4 days in London is really not enough. We have not really site see since we were here! Thus we decided to chop chop visit before we take the flight back to Baden Baden.


First we went to Baker street to see how the Sherlock Holmes museum looks like. In the end we didn't visit, but took photo with the guard!

Heh heh. 

And then we went to visit Big Ben and London eye!

Big Ben!

London eye!

London is pretty cosmopolitan and so as an asian, I don't find myself inviting weird stares from people. There are also many attractions that due to the lack of time we couldn't cover. I would really love to visit London again ;)