Euro Trip with my dear (Day 1 & 2)

It had been a headache to plan this one week trip,
but I was so looking forward for this trip,
as it would be the first time i see my dear face to face after more than a year... N it would b the first long vacation we have together...

Everything had been planned 2 months prior to the date of the trip,
n the volcanic ashes incident that time got me worried for a bit during that time..
plus some unknown random factors of the universe blah blah...
but everything turned out to be going as planned n she boarded onto the plane...

Phew...

DAY 1

I started the day early, taking a 7.00am flight to London. I had plenty of time before Sin May reached around 4 - 5.00pm. I left my baggage in Astor Victoria Hostel, then went to Leicester Square to get musical tickets for that night. Had no idea what to watch, i know most productions would be good, as long as the ticket prices are within budget... I chose Sister Act in the end after running between a few ticket booths.. Then i paid a visit to the British Museum... Although not as huge as the Louvre, but the collection of artifacts is quite impressive, especially like the Egyptian and Mesopotamian items.. I'm not sure if i have looked through every corner but it was kinda rush as i had to go to Heathrow Airport to meet my dear... Luckily i was not late.. It took some time before she emerged from the arrival gate... Relieved that she had touched down safely...
She had fallen in love with London straight away when we travelled on the metro to city centre... The weather, the flora, the architecture... After checking in, we took sometime to walk around, taking photos, before rushing to the London Palladium Theatre..


We both agreed that this musical was good and hillarious, definitely worth a watch. After that we wandered around that area in search for food... We saw some crazy celebration around that area, think we somehow wandered into the 'xxx area'.. Other than ppl in pubs with exposing clothes, probably having parties after a 'homosexual, transexual etc' themed parade today, we saw quite some XXX dvd shops around as well...

We finally settled in a Mediterranean restaurant... Food was not bad, but not exactly brilliant as well.

Time was approaching 11.00pm after we finished our dinner, we made a quick move to get a glimpse of some of London's nightview... We went to the Westminster area, near River Thames, where the Big Ben, House of Parliament and London Eye are located.

I don't know why, but my dear seemed to have something towards plain stone/brick walls and stone streets.. You'll notice it in the trip to other places later... We took some photos while waiting for the double-decker bus coz we were too late for tubes...


DAY 2

We got up early to go to Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of guards. That was the 3rd time I've watched the unnecessarily long ceremony. OK, it provides some entertainment and it is one of the 'Must see' attractions of London, but exchanging a few guards do not need to be dragged till 30 - 45 mins, n my my, standing under the hot sun crowded with hundreds of tourists did not make things better. We left after around 20 mins...


We then walk along St James Park, towards Westminster area...


Took some dayview photos of the Westminster area


Of course how can we miss the famous red phone booth?

N the horse guard? Even the horse knows he should look at the camera...

Then we had a short visit to the National Gallery near Trafalgar Square... She was abit disappointed that there were only a few Van Gogh's paintings there....

Here a picture of her taken with a random piece of wall... See, i said she had something towards stone walls...A complex looking mapping of london tubes

I brought her to one of the most busy shopping street in London - Oxford street. Luckily i had a gf who doesn't like shopping, so i'm spared from going in shop by shop! Anyway, we didn't have much time to spend there also...

We grabbed some burger from McD in a rush, n had to eat in the airport... Yeah burger with bacon! Something not found in Malaysia!


We took the evening flight at 7.10pm to Glasgow... She was freezing when we walked out from the bus station... Yeah, Glasgow is almost always cold, even in summer. But she prefers cooler weather than hot weather, so she adapted to the weather fairly quickly. We went back to my hostel, and had dinner with Devi, Lingwei, XY n their family... We slept early that night, exhausted, after a long day...

(to be continued...)