London Trip

Ppl alwayz read my blog surely know i've been to london for several times edi but still haven got time to explore it.. Sad.. but wif my little brother around, I actually managed to visit most of the top attractions in a 3-days trip over there! ^^ Madame Tussauds, Natural History Museum, Emirates Stadium, Westminister, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London n even Sherlock Holmes Museum.. Actually we did go to both London Eye n London Dungeon, but 'thks' to the big queue n expensive entry tickets, we din get in.. T.T anyway, our schedule was quite tight to be honest.. I think if u seriously wanna enjoy London, u would probably nid one whole week to do it.. ^^

We lived in a 2-star hotel at Earl's Court, cost us 88 pound for 2 nites (seriously expensive.. T_T). Not luxurious, but still they got the basic stuff we needed: our own bathroom, tv n fresh towels! We kicked off our trip with Tower of London. We din even know wat so special about that place b4 we went there. It was a palace, fortress n a prison of England. It is now a museum in the central of London wif lotz of Yeomen Wardens guarding it. Guarding wat? All the crowns of kings n queens are stored in there! All the families of Wardens lives there. Yeomen Wardens are also called the 'Beefeater', working as tour guides other than guarding the jewels. Jewels n Crowns? We saw them, n of course, we weren't allowed to take pics! Dun forget it was a prison as well, so many ppl were executed here....

a Beefeater, Yeomen Warden

Since it was a fortress, cannons could be seen everywhere.

Houses of Wardens' n Governor's family. The queens lived here in early ages.

Armoury! They could be seen everywhere so i'm not going to bored u wif them.. ^^

the model of Tower of London in early ages.. @@

A teddy-bear version of the Warden! Huge 1.

I'm sure of every1 heard of London Bridge. but b4 i came here I was confused wif tower bridge n london bridge as i tot the beautiful Tower bridge was London Bridge. Confused? haha. Anyway, i was quite fortunate to c the bridge to open n close as we walked out form Tower of London. Video taken of course!



After that, we went to the famous n scary London Dungeon. Unfortunately there were so many ppl lining up for it n it was almost the closing time.. T_T So we juz gave up n headed to our next destination: St. Paul Cathedral. It was the one of the most famous cathedral in Europe, but still my bro got absolute no interest in it. @@ Therefore we left there after juz half n hour.

The huge n famous church in London, St. Paul Cathedral.

Then, we head on to the top attraction of London: London Eye! T_T, still, my bro din like juz wasted 20 pound per person juz to have a look of London. @@ We walked around it b4 went across the London Bridge to see the famous Big Ben!

London Eye..

View from bottom.. ^^ din get on board.. haih..

View of Westminister building n Big Ben from London Bridge.

That all the places we went for the 1st day. As for our dinner, we of course went to the london's famous roast duck restaurant: Four Season, located at Bayswater. We both had our most satisfied ever roast duck meal there after half an hour of waiting outside.. T_T

Next day 10am in the morning, we went to Natural History Museum, the famous local museum which my bro quite interested in. Dinosaurs fossils, animals, nature, everything about science could be seen n learnt in the museum. It was seriously huge, took us about 3 hours to walk thru it.. @@ Erm, i dun really remember all those dinosaurs n animals' name.. so juz lotz of pic dun have description! Anyway, there was a moving T-Rex model in the Dinosaur section, quite amazing! Again, i videoed it! ^^ It was so real!

Natural History Museum


The Main Hall. Impressive huh?

A mammoth.. ^^ At least i remember this!

Triceratops!

T-Rex!

Saber tooth Tiger! ^^

After the Dinosaur section, we headed on to the Mammals' part of the building. Of course, the most attractive part of it was the model of the biggest mammals ever on earth: Blue Whale! ^^

Blue Whale

Seadog, or ppl said 'Mermaid'..

View from 1st floor. impressive? ^^

Cute? hehe..

There were nothing else special there other than stuff about science n earth. Anyway we were quite happy to have come here as it wasn't in our plan initially! ^^

Cool? thatz the Earth section.

After the museum, I visited Qiting who lived juz nearby. Then our next stop was, Bakers Street!
Haha, every1 that knows Sherlock Holmes muz have known wat sort of place it is. Yeap, that was the street where the world most famous detective lived. ^^ We of course visited his house of course, which ppl said that its address is the world most famous address: 221b, Bakers street, London, UK. @@ but still i neva heard of it b4 i went! ^^ The house was rebuilt n decorated as exactly same as what u would read in the novels of Sir Conan Doyle.

The Underground Station.. ^^

Statue of the famous detective.. ^^

His clothes..^^

'Dr Watson' n my bro in the living room

His famous equipments.

After that, we went to the nearby wax museum, the world famous Madame Tussaud! ^^ FOr those who dunno wat it is, there were lots n lots of wax celebrities in there ready for us to take photos wif. Though they were all wax, they looked incredibly real! but to be honest there were not much light so i couldn't take good quality pics wif my n73.. T_T sad..

Albert Einstein!

Beatles!

Beckham n Owen! ^^

Beckham n Posh! ^^

Me, as the representative of UN, i... ^^

Here comes the Ghost Rider~~

Thatz me! wahahaha

Pope John Paul II!

Wahaha! Jose.. :p sao pei lo! ^^

Spiderman! ^^

Will Smith

Jolie n Brad Pitt.. too many ppl.. T.T

Nelson Mandela!

It was such a nice experience to be in there. Haha, it would be much nicer if there were no ppl in there fighting wif us to take photos.. ^^ After that, i took my bro to the famous shopping street of London: Oxford Street! ^^ bought some souvenirs of course, n we went into the largest toy store in London, Hamleys. Then we had our dinner at China Town, b4 heading back to our hotel.

The popular shopping mall of London, Selfridges

Hamleys, on the left.. ^^

For the last day of our trip, we had some Krispy Kreme doughnuts as our breakfast at Harrords b4 headed to Buckingham Palace where the Queen lives. There were so many ppl over there at noon as the famous event 'changing of guard' was going on at that moment. As my bro wasn't that interested, we then went to the 'most important' place of all, Emirates Stadium!

Outside the Buckingham Palace

Wahaha, u know wat? we actually got the Arsenal v Bolton tickets! ^^ in fact my bro is an arsenal fan. though we onli managed to get the Bolton side tickets, we were quite happy to have actually got in the Arsenal new home n watch a live match! But the most important thing of all, Arsenal won that day! My bro was damn happy about it!

Wondering where's the memorable Highbury? it was being demolished.. sad..

Here u r, Emirates Stadium!

Inside the stadium.. huge 1 to be honest...

Crowded!

The Scoreboard

Gogogo!

Awww, Ljungberg missed it!

After the match we actually rushed to the airport. I almost missed the train back to sheffield as well! ^^ anyway, it was a thoroughly satisfying trip to be honest. Hope u guys got the chance to experience it as well! ^^