A week in London

Saturday 25th’s London was a very beautiful and clear day. Never have that kind of weather when I was there the last 4 times. London to me has always been grey and gloomy…
Good weather we had only for the first couple of days and the erratic weather emerged across London until I left a week later…

Amid the incident I had with the car transfer, I managed to get around to our cousin’s place safe and sound but it cost me a cool freaky 66 pounds….. Welcome back to one of the highest standard living cities in the world…

HJ’s place is within walking distance to Tower Bridge… Fond memories came flashing by as I start exploring the area again…

And every time, I walked past Tower Bridge, it will just remind me of the famous London Bridge and how irony the structure turn out to be…

London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down.
London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady.

London Bridge has never been featured as one of the tourist attractions. You will think that it is so famous that the government don’t need to. After all, how often do you have a folk song that named after a bridge? And I have always suspected this conspiracy theory. Getting around London is so damn expensive. One source of generating extra revenue is to capitalize on visitors in spending $$$ on transport to locate this famous bridge emplacement in the world. And often, people mistake Tower Bridge as London Bridge and when they realized the blunder, they will mark around and try to locate London Bridge. I did. If Tower Bridge is so magnificent, can you imagine how London Bridge will turn out to be? Hahaha, when I finally locate it, how disappointed you can imagine I was…

Anyway, here are some shots of the Tower Bridge I took on my first evening there. Look at the skyline, look how beautiful it is at dusk. I managed to capture few shots too with the bridge fully open to allow a ship pass through. Mind you, you don’t get to see it daily, ok?



HJ took me to this pub overlooking the river. I kept staring at the moon for some reason. Very cool and breezy place to chill out if only they are no spiders keeping us as companions...



The next few days were just exploring and shopping. My best friend HL dropped by too on Sunday and I bunked over at her hotel for a night and we have lots of fun catching up. This is the first time that we have met each other in a foreign country so the feeling was very fabulous and fun and of course, we were very well-behaved. And I totally forget about the Total Lunar Eclipse but the sky was too cloudy to see anything... Well, just consoling myself. I learn I can't possibly have the best of 2 worlds somewhat..

Back to reality on Wed through Fri and yes, I feel so exhausted when I have to keep my mind fresh and operating throughout the Asia/GMT and sometimes Mountain-time zone but I guess it was worth-whiling since I got things accomplished along with some fun. I was introduced to 2 fun-loving ladies. Pity that we didn't take photos together on the Friday's night over at dinner.

Here some photos I took from the Sheraton that I was staying in. I am going to start painting ref one of the photos here. You got to guess which one though. I cannot believe that they do not have a kettle in the room. I was so craving for instant coffees at night to tide me through the long nights… And so much so for paying few hundred pounds a night. Not that I am being calculative, even if you stay in a budget hotel, they will provide you a kettle…



Well enough of this… I didn't complain about the number of Starbucks every where (I am a Starbucks person but I just couldn't stand seeing them everywhere, hello the English suppose to drink teas right? And yet I hardly see one around...) I just thought of the big picture in the living room. Hehehe somehow, I enjoy staring at the picture. Not sure if I can clone that though. Maybe not, I will draw something else. At least another inspiration for the start...

I guess I will be visiting London again in near futures, until then....this time more and nice Fish n chips and Beers!

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