Europe Trip - Back to London Again

My memory is fading... so, I got to push myself to write down as much as I remember now.

After the short Amsterdam trip, we were back to London (Stansted Airport) by flight - EasyJet. The young boys sitting next to me were about in their teenage, I think. They are very excited and hyper-active in the flight but of course they are very polite as well, they said they were going to London for holiday and that is their first time taking flight. Wow, when I was about their age, I think my parents will never, never allow me to do such thing.

When we reached the airport, the immigration officer had asked us some questions, eg. where r we from? what's the itinerary? what's the relationship between all of us... feeling to be the odd one is erm... undescribable... but it's ok, they were making me feel like their family member too.

Then we took a bus to London, we wanted to go Victoria but due to some misunderstanding somewhere, the bus ended at Liverpool, luckily the station was just next to a tube station, so, at least we know how to get to Victoria. Most importantly, the bus fare was only 2 pounds per person.

When we reached Victoria Station, it was already in the afternoon, we quickly picked a restaurant and "re-fuel" our poor empty stomach. Since we didn't try any bar lunch in London the other day, we decided to try out the food at Wetherspoon. We actually didn't know that Wetherspoon has so many branches all around UK, what we know that, the food is so cheap... I ordered a lime soda, and it's only 0.25 pound. What a surprise.

All the packet sauces in Wetherspoon

I ordered a spicy tomato pasta and ordered a chicken tikka masala to Qiaoyi's mother in law and fish n chips for her father in law, we enjoyed the food so much... reason 1: cheap and nice, reason 2: hungry d.

Wetherspoon Menu

We then checked in to our pre-booked hotel - Airway Hotel, not the same one as the other day before we departed to Paris, but it is also very near and easy to access from Victoria Station. The hotel gave us rooms which are located at lower level, at least this time we do not have to carry our luggage to climb the stairs. Rooms are comfortable and clean enough for us to rest tired bodies. hehe

Without any delay, right after we left our luggage in the room, we had decided to pay a visit to Harrods... on the way walking to Harrod from tube station, there are a lot of designer's boutique, accessories shops... but, we were late... although most of them were having fantastic sales, we were unable to access because it's already after their business hour when we were there.

Luckily, we still can be able to enter to Harrods... we had dinner date with a high school friend, so, we had only limited time there. As soon as we enter the department store, we started to regret, we wished we had more time to shop because most of the brands were doing at least 30% - 70% sales... gosh... next time we should book a flight to London in summer and shop till we drop.

Me @ Harrods

Dinner appointment with the friend - YunJie @ China Town, yes, China Town again, but the restaurant that she recommend serve very authentic Chinese food, the tastiest of all we visited so far...

Group photo with YunJie, a very cool and nice young lady

Then Diong, our high school friend as well, came to meet us for a cup of coffee as well as a bid farewell to all of us.

Coffee @ Nero Cafe

:( next day will be another tiring day in bus... we were taking megabus again back to Glasgow....