Day 117

Yesterday saw Mel and I getting kicked off the bus which we were supposed to take us to Sweden for a field trip. Ugh. Sweden and I are really not fated, I thought I could go Stockholm with Geri and Clement during May but they're going when I have school, and I really wanted to be good and go for all my classes during May since I'm thinking of travelling to Italy and France during June. So I really need to study in May. Yes, you saw right, study!

And I had a great day today with Nora, we went to a cafe near Kongens Nytov and I wanted to get pizza for dinner near her place. But we got distracted by the chinese buffet which I've always wanted to try, and so we decided to go in for dinner. I had sushi!! It was pretty awesome, I didn't expect myself to have sushi here :D

So I decided I shall try and blog about all my trips, starting from the most recent one, UK! I think it would be a really long post though, here's a warning! After all, I did spend close to three weeks there. Heh.

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I gotta say, London's one of my favourite cities ever! The first thing that struck me when I got to London, was that it reminded me a lot of Singapore. The roads for one, was so similar to what we get back home, and it's on the "right" side of the road as well! And not forgetting, everything's in English too!

Reached London Gatwick airport, and we took a bus out to Central London, Fulham Broadway. Initially, the plan was to head straight to our hostel and put our bags down. But John realised that we were really close to Chelsea stadium and so we decided to drop by it before making our way to the hostel. Amused ourselves by taking pictures outside the stadium, like this:


And after making a trip to this stadium, Mel actually became a Chelsea fan.. Can you believe it?! So anyway, after the stadium, we made our way to the hostel and followed the directions given to us by this lady working at the airport. But she actually gave us wrong directions (!) and we took really long to get to our hostel. Reached the hostel eventually, and we decided we were too tired to travel back to Central London, and ate at a restaurant near our hostel and walked around the neighbourhood.

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Woke up early and wanted to head to Portobello Market, but it was closed and we decided to make our way to Hyde Park and walk to Buckingham Palace. Hyde Park was pretty and I took an insane amount of pictures of ducks and swans. Yes I know, what's new. The weather was pretty horrible though, with the dark clouds looming when we made our way to Buckingham Palace. The changing of guards took place at 1130am, but we got there slightly late and missed a bit of it. We stayed until the end of it though, and managed to see the guards marching out. Nothing impressive I would say, I expected much more to be honest.




Made our way to the museums, and we got lost for a long time! Ugh. Was pretty depressing to be lost, especially when it was raining as well. Was so thankful when we finally found the Science Museum, where we could take shelter and explore as well. Daryl joined us while we were there, and our next stop was the History Museum which I thought was pretty cool. So it was pretty much a museum day for us in London. Most of the museums in London are free, which was really cool.

Met Ks in London for dinner at Four Seasons where I had glorious Chinese food! The duck was amazing, and I refuse to upload the photo for fear I'll get depressed looking at it. Dinner with Ks was awesome, and we walked around after dinner to digest our food. Ended up at Piccadilly Circus where our group left for separate ways. I still think it's pretty cool how I met Ks in London!


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The weather was brilliant when we left in the morning and began our touristy day! Places like Big Ben, London Eye, Westminster Abbey, Tate Modern, Tower Bridge etcetc are a must when in London! We started off from Westminister Abbey and slowly walked to Tower Bridge. It was a pretty nice walk with awesome weather, I must say.





We stopped by Borough Market which Ks recommended, and I was in heaven!! It's a food market, and everything looked amazing. Started off with curry, and continued with fish & chips, sausages, cakes, pies.. I had one of the best cakes I've ever tasted here as well- Banana Banoffee Cake! Omg. Craving for another one right now..


Continued our walk after our pitstop for food, and made our way to London Bridge and Tower Bridge. I had this strange fascination with the Tower Bridge for some reason, and I couldn't stop taking photos of it. The bridge was just spectacular for some reason, am I the only one who thinks so?




Ended off our day at Camden market, which reminded me of Bugis street back home. The stalls were selling stuff which looked suspiciously from Bangkok. It was not as cheap as I expected it to be, Mel bought a pair of sunglasses though.

Dropped by Oxford street at night, and it was so crowded! London is amazing that way, it was almost 9pm and the shops are still open! Went to Primark, where we ended up shopping until the store closed. Lol.

Alright, it's almost 3am, and I have class tomorrow! Looks like I have to blog about my trip in several days. I'm excited about my day later, minus class of course. The prof is boring like hell, thank goodness it's only two hours.

Xoxo.