badmonkeyfatpig: London work and play! (01.07.11 – 10.07.11)

This is the final post of my working trip!

We left Norwich on Friday morning to go back to London and spend the weekend there before taking the flight back to Malaysia on Saturday.

This time is the same, we went around London with the Original Bus tour since it’s the most convenient way. On this trip, we stayed is another hotel at the other side of the town. I can’t really recall the name of the hotel but I think it has something to do with Thistle. Haha.

Some cam-whoring inside the hotel room.

Our hotel is just a walking distance from the British Museum. I think it’s free to go in, but we decided not to go in because we did not want to waste time. Haha… too little time too much to see in London.

Ice-cream or crepes anyone? Both this vehicles are parked in the compound of the British Museum. As much as I wish to buy that ice-cream… but the weather is too cold for me. It has been raining every now and then during our second trip to London. You might notice that there is no sunlight in most of my pics.

The Russell is one of the famous hotel in London. Did not get to stay there, so only took a pic of it then the bus passed by the hotel.

London telephone booth. I don’t think anyone even uses it now. Haha

Next, we got down from the bus at St.Paul’s Cathedral stop to have a closer look of the area there.

And oh!! I was also busy going in to every sports shop in Norwich and London because I wanted to get football jerseys for badmonkey. Visited JJB Sports in Norwich to get him both England & Man Utd Jersey. Then again saw a sport shop on sale when we got down to visit St Paul’s Cathedral. And managed to buy a blue color MU shirt. But silly me. MU never had a blue color jersey! I bought BadMonkey a MU training shirt by mistake!! Wahahahha!!!

Exterior of St.Pauls

Can’t really post any pics on the interior of St.Paul’s Cathedral because photograph is prohibited in the church- took some pic before I was told that pictures are not allowed in the cathedral. I did not really pay the admission fee and visit the inside of the church because in my opinion £14.50 per person is expensive. Although my company is the one that will be paying in the end lah.

Still at St.Paul’s Cathedral area.

We had our lunch in an Italian Restaurant just the opposite of St Paul’s Cathedral. And I still miss the taste of the pizza and pasta that we had there….. below is the picture of the 2 dish that we ordered. Pardon me for not remembering what are both the dish called. I just remembered that the pizza is just cheese and vegetables. No meat. And the pasta was served with some smoked turkey or something like that. Yummy! Yummy!!

Our next stop was the Tower Bridge.

And just beside the Tower Bridge is the Tower of London (now you know how the bridge got it’s name!). The Crown Jewels is placed here. again. Need ££ to visit the Tower of London and again we decided to skip it. hahaha.. we are trying to save some money for our company.

Exterior wall of the Tower of London.

Next stop, Buckingham Palace!! How could someone not taking picture at the gate of the Buckingham palace when you are in London??!! LOL!!!

There you go, mission accomplished!! LOL!!

This is Victoria Memorial. It is placed at the centre of Queens Garden in front of the Buckingham Palace and is dedicated to Queen Victoria. Oh!! Look at the sky!!!

We decided to go back to our hotel and freshen up before walking to Chinatown. But… we missed the last Original Tour bus going back to our hotel area. So we had to take a public bus instead.

It is not really a very far distance ride. I still remembered that the bus ticker for each of us cost £2.20. We have to buy a ticket before getting onto the bus.

Chinatown is just a few more streets away from our hotel. so we just walked there. The first thing we saw once we are 1 street away from our hotel is this…

Yup.. I think it’s a fire. Don’t dare to go close as I still want to go home!! Haha… and also because Chinatown is not towards that street either.

Yay! Reached Chinatown.

Newspaper anyone? I think it’s free…

So crowded… but actually it’s only 1 street and that’s it.

Since not much to see here, we decided to have our dinner at one of the restaurant here. Why am I not surprise, the food here sucks big big time!!! I thought it will at least easy to my mouth since those shops owned by Chinese from China and Hong Kong because they speak Cantonese to each other. But I think I forgot one point that since their customers are mostly ‘guai lous’ who don’t really know how the original food taste like, so the cooks don’t really need to be able to cook tasty /original taste food!! And… because both of us are not ‘guai lou’ or even close.. we did not get good service from the waiters!!! Screw you china men!!!! No offence to those good man out there ya!!

Took this pic on our way back to the hotel..