It was the first time I board on plane, super excited and kinda nervous, my family were there too, we had a trip in KL
As I entered the boarding gate, I told myself, everything after this gate is gonna be first try.
I lingered around shops, waited at the boarding gate, and board on airplane. Everything was so new to me, look outside from the window in the plane, had my first meal, and I will never forget how much I had sweated on my hands when the flight took off, plane was shaky and noisy.
Plane shaked sometimes and I be like it is crashing down or what? Funny, but i was really scared hehe
I got transfer in hochimin city, it took me 13+3 hours to reach London, it was 7 in the morning, the queue at the customs checkpoint was so crowded, it was cold outside but super hot inside, everyone was wearing coat, so sweaty, I wonder why everyone didn't take off the coat so I didn't too.
I took bus from heathrow to Victoria, before this I met a China girl, she talked to me because she thought I am from china too. We went to terminal2 for the bus to Victoria, but her bus was 10:30am and mine was 9:30am, we talked while we were walking but suddenly she disappeared, I felt super creepy and hopped on bus immediately. I got no wifi or 3G so me and Alyssa used fate to connect with each other. Long distance traveling made me so tired, I took a nap on the bus. Alyssa waited me at Victoria station, I saw her immediately, snapchatting me.
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace, summoning their queen but too bad she wasn't around.
There were lots of people taking photos, sky was blue.
The sky was really stunning, unlike Malaysia's cloudy sky
We put our bags at the Mstay hotel.
Alyssa booked studio cause we wanted to update each other. But seriously we walked too much from 10am to late night and fell asleep right away.
We had long chat in the second dorm we stayed, which was 14 mixed dorm, yeap we whispered in the room -.-
Lesson number 3,
Don't book studio for the first night.
My first meal in UK was McDonald, it was suck, the burger was too dry and no sauce given. The best thing was still fries, I love fries, fries would never be awful. Heh
Mark and Spencer in london is different with what we have in Malaysia or Singapore
look at this supermarket size <3 in Malaysia it is just a small grocery store.
Shopping time !
We planned to join the Boxing Day but in the end all of us didn't buy any shit. For real, don't ever join Boxing Day before you do research. It was super duper crowded and not everything is cheap, those expensive stuffs will remain expensive. Great Sale Singapore is way better.
Winter Wonderland
And the sun went down, Christmas lights were turned on <3 it was amazing, I always like to stare at sparkling shiny lights or ocean or diamond hahahahahaha.
At night, we went to the Christmas market <3 oh my gosh the decoration was so fabulous I love it really really much. There was one part that I saw was the same as me and Ian went in Singapore, that artist kinda doing world tour? I guess hahaha
We had sausage with bread at 5 pounds for each, it was quite big serving so 3 of us shared them together. I love it sooooo muchhhhhh the sausage was soooooo juicy <3 yellow mustard is the best !
Here's the churrosssssssss with chocolate <3 oh my god I missed them...
Alyssa found out that the chocolate fudge will harden so it actually can be peeled off from the paper, so we ate them until the paper became so clean
Soon we are hungry again as we walked, there's a wine called MULLED WINE which served hot, its winter limited
arg didn't focus. Duck meat wrap (?)
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Second day,
It was 1 degree in the morning, I was awake from the coldness and realized that the window was opened all night, heater was far away from me......
the Hotel was soooo comfortable that we actually slacked until 12pm.
Breakfast on bed, watching movies
Alyssa showed me the 1 pound Kettles, and I showed to Ian, he was so surprised! Hehe cause it's his favourite xD
221B Baker Street..
My favourite~~~ Sherlock holmes!!
with full of excitement I kept taking pictures on the street, but I didn't go into the musuem.
Firstly, I didn't wanna let my Alyssa and her boyfriend wait for me out there, Secondly, there was a long long queue!!
I know it will be another chance to come here so I am willing to wait! heh
<3 compass keychain from the museum
beef charkueyteow in the baker street
London Bridge underground
Tower Bridge
there's a christmas market by the river, walked along the market till we reach Tower bridge
purple lights made the bridge creepy HAHA.
we had big big sausage for dinner <3
At night, we walked back to the hostel, made cups of tea, chill and relax.
There's a foosball game in the common area, it's super fun that actually could laugh our abs out!
after that there's a guy joined us, made this game even more fun!
We slept in the 3 layer bunk bed, it's a 33 beds mixed dorm, so the heater wasn't working because the room is too big
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Day 3
Croissants breakfast
Croissants and cheese from sainsbury's, croissants in europe is cheap and delicious, even from the supermarket <3
THE HIDDEN TUNNEL ART in Waterloo
As we were on our way to big ben, I saw some mural spray art on street, and then we passed by a tunner entrance which was down below us, I asked 要下去吗?好吧下去啦!!!
then BOOM! it was AMAZINGGGGGG
that's why I like to walk rather than taking public transportation.
<3
artist spotted!
Here comesssss
THE BIG BEN :D
We took a lot of photos there, SO CROWDED that we have to grab the chance, nobody likes photo bomber x(
Borough Market <3
The market is not far away from our hostel so we could collect our bags after this.
Borough market sells cheese, fruits, veggies, breads, and FOOD !!!!!!
me, people and FOOOODDDDD
First fish and chips in London
Our next station is Liverpool, where Alyssa studies <3
See you in next post <3
Mstay hotel
Price: tbc
address: 39 Queensborough Terrace, Bayswater, London W2 3SY, UK
St Christopher's Inn Village London Bridge
Price: tbc
address: 165 Borough High St, London SE1 1HR, UK