Anan Spring break trip: London - England (May 2011):
It's good to be back to my 2[sup]nd[/sup] adoptive country: ENGLAND !!!!!
Feel like a Fish in the water
The famous & well known : the
Buckingham Palace, everyone must know this place when they saw the prince William & Kate drove the car just married around this place lol....
Like W. Shakespeare said:
"The World is your Oyster"
- The
Oyster card: is an e-ticketing with microchip to travel within the greater London underground & rails... it's your key to travel everywhere in & around London.
It's the first thing that you must buy & top up once arrived there.
My moment of laziness & peace: Laying on the grass, read a book @ St James Park (next to the Buckingham palace)...
With a very good friend of mine who got married with an American from New-York, now they are in London.
She is an excellent cook.
Another popular monument in London: the
Tower Bridge
The Queen Mary's Garden (Regent's Park) : it's my favourite park in London with full of hundreds of different kind of Roses !!!
If you love Roses & flowers, you have to come visit this place
Two little Angels trying to catch a pigeon in the park !!! lol,,, that's so funny & cute
You will see a lot this little creature in the parks of London
Our coach inside the Eurotunnel Shuttle : it's the largest railway wagons in the world with the
Channel Tunnel !!!!
It takes only 35-40min to reach France !
The remaining little items & souvenir from London....
Chocolates & British biscuits for my tea time
Tips & Suggestions if someday you want to visit London:
1/ Once arrived @ London, go & buy an
Oyster card, top up with 20 pounds on it. When you leave, u still can have the refund for the unused credits
2/ To
exchange your US dollars or Euro to British pound, avoid the "official" & popular Bureau de Change brands, simply go to the chinese bureau de change in
China town, they will offer u the best RATE !!!
Ex:
for 100 euro = u got usually around 60 pounds in classic Exchange bureau, but in the China town: u can have up to 80 pounds !
3/ The
Cheapest way to go visit London from Paris, is by
coach(see picture above) ! it costs only 90 euro (100 $) for a round trip ticket !
It's a night trip, you leave Paris at 11pm then arrived to London at 5am.(local time) and similar the same for the return.
4/ For 1 to 2 days, here are
the popular places (my personal TOP 10 places that I know very well) that you must see
:
- The Buckingham Palace
- Trafalgar Square (+ St James park)
- The China Town (Leicester Square: thanks to
Katerine)
- Big Ben/The Parliament/The London Eye
- Westminster Abbey (where the royal wedding of Prince William & Kate took place)
- St Paul Cathedral
- London Tower (where the the King Henry VIII beheaded 2 of his 6 wives)
- Tower Bridge
- Oxford Street / Piccadilly Street (for shopping, lots of brandy name & very expensive)
- The Regent's Park/Queen Mary's Garden (a very very pretty park in London)
5/ Try the "
Peking Duck" in the China Town !!!!
Long time ago, someone (i don't remember who exactely) told me that you have to try the
Peking Duck in London.
When I took my family relative from Australia to try that, it seems to be TRUE !!!
It's indeed very delicious !!! Very Crispy & Juicyyyy....
