Day 1 and 2

We met rf and xl at changi airport on 14 may, taking airasia to KL. However, our flight delayed by 20 minutes and rf was super worried!! Cos we have to catch flight at KL. We still made it in time at KL airport, met the rest of them and boarded the plane to London Stansted airport. The plane wasnt that bad though its a budget flight, but somehow it was difficult to fall asleep on the plane. We reached London Stansted at 12 midnight and stayed overnight at the airport till we could catch the 5am bus to central London! Hm there were some super loud europeans at the airport who are such a nuisance, took a picture of us without our permission. But besides that everything was quite good at the airport, I even slept deeply for an hour on the stone cold floor. Hm what an experience

Alf trying to sleep at the airport.

We boarded the comfy bus at 5am and set off to Victoria Station to take a train. But how can we forget to take pictures of the old and pretty station first!

Me and SH trying to imitate the "Wicked" poster behind us. Hm, flop~~~We then took the underground to our hostel, which is at West Kensington. The train system is quite confusing in London! But lucky mr tam is around, who is very trained in navigating the train system after the experience in US and Japan! Upon reaching West Kensington, we started walking towards our hostel. We were so happy to walk along a street filled with English house.. And here is our hotel! It is 4 English house connected together...The hostel is super nice. With all right of us staying in a room, it was still very spacious with our own lockers and private bathroom. There were also many shared toilets and bathrooms outside our room, which was very convenient. The view was also superb, down the row of peaceful English house. After depositing all our heavy backpacks, we started to make our way down to see the big ben, london eye, westminister abbey and buckingham palace. Just a quick update, at the time we did so much, it was only 8am. But yet we still think that we are rushing for time, so we walked around quickly but still took many pictures. At Buckingham palace Our first jumpshot, at an anonymous statue between Westminister Abbey and the Big Ben.

Westminister Abbey, which we didn go in.Some Cathedral we pass by which we cannot go in. A park we pass by while walking to buckingham palace. One beautiful thing about England is that you can sit on their grass patch without fear of dog urine. The dog owners are rather responsible. We could also see the London eye from the park!Some statue beside Buckingham palace. But we have to go one big round before we could find a traffic light to go to the buckingham palace. But yet we are still super early for the changing guards ceremoney, so we turn to the victoria station for some lunch! We had some sandwiches which are cheap but quite delicious.Thr changing guards ceremony, which I must say quite boring. It may be because we have been awake for more than 7 hours. After the ceremony ended we started walking again, i cannot remember properly where but should be to some art museum. But it was so super boring that me and rf decided to leave and see if we could get any musical tickets at a discount at TKTS. But there were no les mis ticket at a discount! Hm so we decided to go oxford street to shop. We wanted to take a bus there, but a smart alec police told us to walk all the way, thus we landed up on the wrong side of oxford street, only going to dorothy perkins. After walking for so long, we finally sat down to have a meal, at MAC! After the meal, we walk walk walk again to China town, where my friend recommended this Chinese restaurant which sells good roast ducks. But it was still early and the others are not back from meeting their friend yet so we went to sit down on the grass again, super relaxing~~~
AFter dinner, the sky was as bright as like 5pm though its already 8pm. We went back to the hotel and every one was knocked out.

The other parts will come later. I take 3 hours just to type a simple post like this!!