Oct
5
The Last Part of Europe
Flowers for you!
The last part of the Europe trip time line. I’m not going to delay this post any more… Need to get back to my regular bloggings. Anyways, not much pics taken in London due to architecture saturation. Plus, it’s pretty gloomy over there with the ever grey skies. This is the longest post of the 4 =) Enjoy!
18/9/07 [Day 5]
FR0700 – Breakfast
FR0830 – Bus to Versailles Castle. Staring outside, green things flying past again.
FR1030 – Reached Versailles Castle
- tour
-walkaround
FR1230 – Bus to lunch
FR1300 – Lunch at Chinese restaurant. Again. Good service and food though.
FR1400 – Bus to La Fayette
FR1420 – Metro to Abesses (To continue what we missed out yesterday. The majority went shopping at La Fayette)
FR1530 – Reached St Pierre! Walked one big round up the hill. Worst still, we mistook this as the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Wasted far too much time here. =(
FR1610 – Basilica of the Sacred Heart finally!
- More frenzy phototaking ensued.
FR1630 – Rush to LaFayette by Metro. Got a little lost. But we managed to reach back there ahead of time.
FR1655 – Reached La Fayette
- A little walking around to admire that big glass ceiling.
FR1730 – Gathering of the hungry people for dinner!
FR1800 – Dinner at a Chinese Restaurant. Again.
FR1900 – Bus ride. Our highlight of the night! The Effiel Tower!
FR1930 – Up the Effiel Tower to the 2nd floor!
- more shooting around!
FR2030 – Down the tower. =( I wanted to stay longer…
FR2100 – Another place to see the whole tower! Just 15 minutes to shoot. Grr…
-Got to find a good spot, set up tripod, adjust settings. Pray for people to get out of my view. All that in 5 minutes. And shoot. And pray the shots turn out good. Damn, on a proper shoot I would need like 30 – 40 minutes to settle the settings and admire its beauty at the same time. DAMN THE SHORT TIME. Argh.
FR2115 – Being reluctantly pulled back to the bus, with the camera in one hand, holding the tripod with the other, trying to close the tripod with my third hand. Rushed. Argh. Personal note: Come back here in the future, with someone, or alone. Just come back here. >.>
FR2200 – Back at the Hotel. Why can’t they give us more time here at the tower? /whine.
FR2300 – Party at my room again! Just finish the horrible tasting beer already!
FR0100 – Sleep
19/9/07 [Day 6]
FR0430 – Wake up
FR0530 – Board the bus. Then sleep amidst all the blabberings. Then watching the trees by the road fly by in a fuzzy hue of green. Heading for the ferry to UK. Those types that you can load vehicles up yeah?
FR1000 – board the ferry! Walking around the side deck. Enjoying the strong winds of the British coasts.
UK1130 (FR time -1H) – Reached Dover, UK!
UK1330 – Fish and Chips for lunch! Vinegar instead of lemon over the fish. UK style. Nice!
UK1430 – Bus to Picardilly Circus.
- Shown where we won’t will be having dinner.
- Shopping at Lilywhites! What else?
UK1830 – Dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Again.
UK1930 – Ibis hotel! Room 1017
UK2300 – The prank of the century… + the wait for the laptop… argh
UK0100 – Sleep.
20/9/07 [Day 7]
UK0515 – Woke up. Wrong time! Argh…. Sleep.
UK0615 – Woke up! Now this is correct. Enough time to look good and nice for the day.
UK0715 – Breakfast in tie and suit.
UK0830 – Bus to South Bank University
UK0900 – Reached South Bank University
UK1030 – Bus to Tour King’s College Hospital with Dawyne and David.
UK1400 – Memorandum of Understanding Signing
UK1500 – Tour around the South Bank University Compound
- Pool match of Paul and Dawyne
UK1630 – Journey to Oxford Street by The Underground to Marbles Arch
- Shopping at Primark
-FCUK
- Dinner at some BBQ restaurant. Due to the exchange rate of 3 time SGD, a coke costs 2.75P. You do the calculations.
UK2200 – Back at hotel
- mahjong. Trying to clear the beer bottles again…
UK0100 – Sleep!
21/09/07 [Day 8]
UK0615 – WAKE UP!
UK0715 – Breakfast with Sai Geok, One of our lecturers =)
UK0900 – Tour of London + sightseeing
- Tower of London. Where the crown jewels are stored.
- St Paul’s Cathedral
UK1200 – Lunch at a Chinese restaurant. Again.
UK1300 – Westminster Abbey.
- Outside Westminster Abbey. Until I got back to Singapore, I had totally no idea that Sir Issac Newton and Charles Darwin were buried inside. Really regretted that, could have paid 10 pounds and gone in to pay my respects to such amazing people and their discoveries…. I like their work, especially Charles Darwin’s. Argh!!
- Big Ben!
- More around Big Ben!
UK1430 – Back on the bus to Oxford street! More Shopping!
UK 1530 – Reached Oxford Street
- While the rest were on thier own shopping, I went down from Marble Arch station to Oxford Circus alone just to find all Borders.. In this feat, I covered about 3/4 of Oxford street. Going to and fro from one station to another is really really tirin, with all the camera stuff. Thank goodness I left the tripod in the hotel. Got my Harry Potter books! yay! Book 1 and 6 left to collect.
UK1900 – Dinner at Chinese Restaurant. Again. Not too bad.
UK2030 – Bus back to Ibis Hotel.
UK2230 – Play! Party! FINISH THE BEER!!
22/9/07 [Day 9]
UK0700 – Woke up
UK0800 – Breakfast!
UK0830 – Pool with HanBin. The rest went for a little walk to Stadford Bridge. You know that place where people play soccer at Chelsea Football Club go to…
- Waiting for the bus
- Still waiting for the bus
UK1010 – Reached the airport (some Herode(spelling) airport)
- then shopping inside the airport while waiting for the flight to Amsterdam.
UK1450 – Flight to Amsterdam!
UK1600 – Reached Amsterdam! Now to wait for the plane to SG
DE2030 – Flight to SG!!
- This is one 12 hours flight. The one 12 hour flight that I couldn’t sleep.
23/09/07 [Day 10]
SG1600 – I’m home! Yay! Not that relieved yet, LOTS of firefighting to do…. That’s another time =)
That’s all about the Europe trip! Fun and interesting, yup. I don’t think I can fully describe it in words. Maybe two words to add in, magical and surreal.
A little drama in between the end, but that’s an experience and a lesson learnt. =)
About leaving home and such, I’m a wanderer. I was once overseas for 21 days, 3/4 of it spent in the wilderness and mountains. Not one bit of homesickness. Same for this trip =) I could go on, if the budget allows =P Thanks for reading!
P.S: I can’t believe I spent 3 hours making this entry >.<
