Friday, January 2, 2009

Below 0 degrees in London

London Day 1 (12:oo noon)
OUR detour this time took us to London, before sending Mak Chu to Brunei, we took this oppportunity to catch a taste of London from higher ground; from rooftop of a bus. Mummy didn't expect London would be too cold so we were dressing little lighter than usual..Bbrrrrrr...

Looking for the bus was a Breeze, but we did get a bit lost


We ended hopping on 2 buses, the red and blue line..
It was a good start , we had light breakfast before we left the apartment though we missed the change of guard at the Buckingham Palace at 11am..Brother really got the attention as usual, and this always put a hold on things. After walking 4 blocks, we reached the Marble Arch and there were tour bus waiting along the road. Feeling confused on which bus to 'hop-on' we just got the bus right infront of us, the Blue line. The tour brought us to the high end street of London such as the Millionaires Street, Harrods at knightsbridge, Peter pan statue, Science Museum and other beautiful condos..
Mummy's secret hotel at Paddington road
Taking a break at Starbuck cafe
The piercing wind was just unbearable, that Mummy deciced to 'hop-off' at NOwhere, and decided to get inside Starbuck to get warm. We had good latte and chocolate to calm brother and he was the reason we had to get down,..He was frantically screaming his head off, probably couldn't handle the weather. About 40 minutes later, we 'hop on' another bus, the same route and completed the tour. As we arrived at Marble arch we looked for Red line the tour that we actually wanted to 'hop-on'.






More people get onboard this bus,coz it brought us to the famous landmarks in London,such as Tower of London, River Thames, Madame Tussauds, Trafalgar Square, London eye, Big Ben, Parliament house, Westminister Abbey and other statues that Mummy could not remember. But we remember witnessing the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street and Bond Street.Sales sign were on every window shops, heard it was the craziest ever in century. This tour took full 2 hours, where it landed us to sit at the lower deck on the next hour.
The queue on this was more than half mile, advance ticket is strongly advisable



Chaotic Bond Street
Big Ben


London Eye "I want to go ferry's wheel uwaaa.."

The tour finally ended at around 4 pm, and by this time the sun was setting and vanishing at the horizon. The next place to go was of course the Restaurant, Luckily, brother was sleeping towards the end coz it started to get freezing cold..Mummy resent for not wearing extra layers when we were out for 4 hours flat..Never under estimated the weather...



brain freeze at -2 degree


Panoramic view of London



















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