Feb 21, 2008

london downtown

here goes a one-day tour in london downtown (is it a downtown? but it's quite far fr london ok. abt two to three hour drive). initial plan was to take up a tour to windsor castle, stonehenge and the roman baths. but only 3 seats available left for that coach while we hav 4 ppl. so we went for another option - still stonehenge and the roman baths, but windsor castle was replaced wiv winchester.

waited for the bus at victoria station. again, met quite a lot malaysians. the tour guide was a handsome englishman, you know that kind of man whose features like johnny depp. i had a lil chat wiv him and found that he had been to msia twice. he even claimed that msia has a lot nice food. ya meh?? the laksa and budu kah?

london is no different fr kuala lumpur. hazy, massive traffic jam, congested tube stations, ppl walking in a hurry... whatever you name it. i dun like london city, but i love pound sterlings. they call london a global village with no boundaries cuz it truly looks like a no englishman place. instead i found a lot asian faces. its like a proportion of 50:50 which i met 5 asians out of 10 ppl. maybe 60:40 or 70:30. yeah rite, im exaggerating. maybe 40:60 or 30:70 lah. but, earning pounds is pretty charming, isnt it?

so there we were at winchester castle. nothing special except the weather was sunny!! surprisingly good!! went to an early market of this town and bought a few packets of strawberry and grapes. felt energetic rightaway.

on the way to early market.

everything was on xmas sales excluded my pama - they are not for sale!!

cute lil gals at winchester.

winchester cathedral.

statue of king alfred the great.

bearbear makan-ing strawberries.

continued our journey to stonehenge which was a burial place in early years. the construction of its hanging stones is still a mystery until today.

here we were at stonehenge. it was gated so we couldnt get any closer.

just take a look at how beautiful the english village is. doing indian dance here must be nice.

this photo was taken by a penangite who came visit his daughter.

headed to the city of bath. this complex was previously used by the romans for public bathing.

english village, a place where i found my tranquility of life!!

getting nearer...

mama listening to audio guide which comes wiv several language options.

its a hot spring. see the steam coming out?

somewhere at the great bath or sacred spring.

at bath abbey.

somewhere near bath abbey.

going back soon.

papa took a sip of coffee. had pizza before back to london.

thats the end of this tour. back to london city and stuck in traffic jam for hours. had dinner near west kensington and the waitress who served us was a young pretty chinese lady, i tell you!!

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