All About Us: London Trip 2011

It's been one month plus after my Europe trip and I have yet to blog about it. What a lazy bump I am as I have no excuse to say I'm busy! Lolx! Alright, I'll briefly tell about this 1st Europe trip of ours (hopefully there's more to come). We got cheap tickets to go to London from MAS Travel Fair at RM3,650 round trip. We're (erm...no I should use I'm instead)..sorry correction, I'm gonna travel to Europe first then only to Turkey. Turkey is another trip with sis, mum and her group of friends and excluding hubby. Hubby will only be joining me to London, Paris, Rome, Vatican and Venice. This Europe trip will last about 16 days and wow..that's pretty long huh! I'm super duper excited and at the same time also worried whether I can stand the 14 hours of long flight. Awh... Anyway, leave aside the long flight first and start with itinerary. Since Europe is so far away and it's not one of the place where you will say, we'll come again next time but instead we'll say if there's a chance, I would definitely wanna come back here, thus a well planned itinerary is almost as important as your passport. Well, it took me about 3 weeks to do survey and prepare the itinerary for the whole trip.

Our flight details from and to KL were as below:

SIM/FOONGGINMS

07/04/2011 (Thursday)

Departing from Malaysia KLIA at 10:05A.M.
Flight No. MH 004
Arriving at London Heathrow on 07/04/2011 (Thursday) at 4:15P.M (Local Time)

30/04/2011 (Saturday)

Departing from Turkey Istanbul at 2:00P.M (Local Time).
Flight No. MH 031
Arriving at Malaysia KLIA on 01/05/2011 (Sunday) at 5:40A.M.

CHAI/YIKKUANMR

07/04/2011 (Thursday)

Departing from Malaysia KLIA at 10:05A.M.
Flight No. MH 004
Arriving at London Heathrow on 07/04/2011 (Thursday) at 4:15P.M (Local Time)

22/04/2011 (Friday)

Departing from London Heathrow at 10:00P.M. (Local Time).
Flight No. MH 001
Arriving at Malaysia KLIA on 23/05/2011 (Saturday) at 5:25P.M.

We stayed in London for 8 days not consecutive but is spread in between of 2 weeks. As for London, I did not prepare any itinerary as FY is there so it's kinda free and easy. And of course, we visited those famous tourist spots where you can't missed?! Below are few of the places that we went in London:

Westminster Abbey
The House of Parliament
Big Ben
The Tower of London
Tower Bridge
Trafalgar Square & Nelson’s Column
Tower Bridge
London Eye
Buckingham Palace
Hyde Park
Greenwich / Greenwich Park
Billingsgate Market
Camden Market
Portobello Market

There are thousand of photos that we have taken throughout the trip and no way that I can post it all here. So guys, these are just some of the selective photos from my trip.

Arrived at Heathrow, Terminal 4 - Taking tube to Canary Wharf

Clouds being slashed into half @ Canary Wharf

Christmas Tree Traffic Lights

Our 1st dinner in London

Zizzi

Beautiful lightings from the offices @ Canary Wharf

1st Lunch in London with Jessica & Chris

Jessica and me

Tea time

Covent Garden

Hubby @ Piccadilly Circus

@ Regent Street

me @ Leicester Square (pronounce as les-ter)

*obviously one of the reason i hate english, you can never predict how they pronounce those words - they tend to read it with phonics i guess*

Us preparing to go Billingsgate Market

Fresh Scallops

Look at our faces! 70% awake only

Don't they look like doctors?

Look at how much things we have bought

A normal garden that turns into a crowded gathering place

for beer on Friday evening

Panaromic view of Soho Square Garden

Can you see the crowd in the bar? It's the same in each and every bar in London on Friday evening! They are standing with a plastic cup of beer in hand!

Tower of London

Tower Bridge

Panaromic view of the Tower of London & Tower Bridge

London Eye

Westminster Abbey

Panaromic view of the Westminster Abbey and London Eye

Westminster Abbey - Night View

FY, me & Hubby (while waiting for Eugene to arrive)

London Eye - Night View

Buckingham Palace (The guards changing was a disappointment)

Along Hyde Park

Hubby with London Double Decker Bus

Harrods @ Knightsbridge

Princess Diana & Dodi Al Fayed @ Lower Ground of Harrods

me with difference Harrods Bear

this is human not bear. lolx

Eugene came to London on Friday (15/04/11) night and he'll be staying for 2 days only and back to Berlin on Sunday evening! Thus we're gonna have a BBQ party and inviting Lynette as well. She's FY's primary school friend and has been in London for some time too. Her husband is a Causasian but speaks very well Cantonese. FY says other than his name, you can never tell that he's a Caucasian. When Eugene reached on Friday, we have already cooked him nasi lemak as per requested by him.

Our homemade nasi lemak - looks nice right? taste even better

Heading to Camden Market

Canary Wharf Tube Station

DLR first then changed to Tube

2 photographers

We have reached Camden Market

Food variaties

Same expression when he's with food

So packed with people

Done with Camden and heading to Portobello Market

Heading home for BBQ preparation

Hubby starting up the fire

Eugene busy taking photos

Group Photo (Eugene, FY, Me, Hubby, Lynette)

Post BBQ - Cleaning up to be done

Our Breakfast the next day after BBQ night - BKT

See FY can finished the whole pot of soup!

Heading to Greenwich

Can you spot "someone" is ruining this photo?

Greenwich - View from uphill

Mini size van selling coffee spotted @ Greenwich Market

After Greenwich, FY and Eugene went back home to pack as Eugene is leaving back to Berlin later. Thus, me and hubby went to city and walk around.

Trafalgar's Square

Finally a picture with the telephone booth that hubby has always wanted

Such a giant heel

Meeting up FY for dinner

in the London double decker bus to Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge - Night view

We decided to do a 5 shot photo with every 2 interval seconds. Check this out!

Snap 1

Snap 2

Snap 3

Snap 4

Snap 5

Ops..the last day of Europe trip has come and we're heading to city for a last minute shopping @ Primark. Things were so cheap but of course not so good of quality but it's still ok though.