Europe Day 2 - Walking in London

Woke up to a sunny morning today! perfect for our planned itenary. we are going to walk london today, whole day.


no kidding, we can see the famous London Big Ben and palace of westminister outside of the hotel :) the sky is so blue


Close up at the Big Ben - It's 9.40am :) The finishing is very fine, but why it represents London, of all the other fine architecture? according to wikipedia, it's because of the time accuracy

whole london is full of london bus. We ride on one of them too. wonder which one got david beckham on board like in beijing olympic

london underground signage is sharp and obvious


Beesuan tip me that in london, when there's sunshine, everyone will go out for sun bath. i didnt know it is up to this extend - there's bench for rent at St James park, all facing the sun :)

buckingham palace- but no guard changing ceremony :( my schedule is tight, so i can just see it from tv documentary already. luckily there's another mini guard changing ceremony at the side door, at least seen something - not really grand, and the guards move, smile, look at the tourist also.

Europe Day 1 - Touch Down in Stanstead, London

Taiwan travel blog stopped at first night, hopefully my Europe blog manage to progress further. (^.^)


Yes, airasia X we took. Seat comfortable? ya, pretty much the same like other long-haul airline's aircraft. Got entertainment? ya, pay RM30 to the stewardess :p. How many hours? 13 long hours, luckily non-stop, sometimes speeding (airasia is known to speed in the air). How about food? I pre-purchased it. RM38 one set, they serve 2 meals, one after flight took off, another 3 hours before landing.

So, how much's the ticket? ~RM 3300 for 2, inclusive tax,meal, insurance and choose seating

Wah, so cheap - what's the catch?

water - so expensive on board! advice is to buy or fill in departure hall, if available. wait until you pass bag scan counter

choose seating - Xtra leg room is tourist trap, the seats are all in front of toilets. a lot of people will be disturbing you. normal seats will do, even soowei feel ok with the seat width & length.

bags - at stanstead, they really weigh your bag, even the one that u bring on board - limit 7kg. if overweight, they forced you to check in and pay 6 pounds.

insurance - i shouldn't have purchase it, because my credit card give free travel insurance :P

First thing to do after enter room ------- throw away the bags!

Do you also have the habit of taking hotel toilet photo?

We took off at KLIA 10am, after 13 hours, we reached stanstead at 4.30pm (it's supposed to be 11.30pm already), felt dizzy & tired, yet excited.

it took us quite sometime to reach our hotel, Riverbank Park Plaza, we are too tired to explore the night, so we settled down in the room and doozed to sleep, at 11.30pm (been awake for 21 hours, zzzzz)


p/s - I automatically wake up at 3am, then convince my body to sleep again