London trip 伦敦之旅 - Day 2

If you wanna ask : What is the best part of self-traveling ?

Me : Sleeping until woke up by myself. LOL

But it still about 8am even though I didn't set an alarm. Maybe it's the jet-lag (London is late an hour than Paris) or just because I'm too excited ? Whatever ~ We then went out after eat somethings that we bought from Tesco yesterday. Well, If you read the post about my night-viewing Day 1, then Day 2 is definitely a shopping day ! 

So here is the Oxford Circus station which brings you to The Oxford Street : A place where the fashion in London started. You can found both high street fashion and international brand over there. *Brand List* Most of the store open from 9am-9/10pm or even Sunday (noon-6pm). But don't go during weekends don'ttttttt !! Unless you have no choice or you're enjoy to walk inside the crowd ...

Meanwhile, there still have some stores which located at those street that link to Oxford street just like Michael Kors In Regent Street. If you already have a goal, then better do some research to shot right to your target more easier. 

Lunch break during the shop time ! 

Suddenly feel like wanna eat something sour, so we choosed this Thai restaurant as we passed by a lil street. Five star service, delicious food and reasonable price ! Wish that I could go again next time :)

Feeling peace at a lil park with few status. 

Didn't shopped a lot because you felt horrible when you x5.5 on every price tag ! (I know I shouldn't do this but I just can't control TT) Can't deny that currency is our enemy when we go to a high-exchange-rate country. Lol. After shopped a whole day, we then went back to rest around 5pm.

We aim to take a night bus tour at night. There have several bus company provided this tour and recognize their colour is the way to differentiate them. We choosed a Red one and looking for them under the London Bridge. The last tour is at 8pm and we just cannot found the station which we can join the bus. (If anyone know please let me know) So we just missed the opportunity to sightseeing the London night by the double-decker.

St.Paul Cathedral

What is interesting is the road in front it have two yellow-rounded bulb street light, standing at each side of it. It's 女皇灯 (I don't know it's English name but I think we can call it Queen's Light if direct translate from Chinese) which literally means you can just passed the road like a queen and the all the car will stop for you. Sounds cool right ?

Went to the end if this street, the Victoria Memorial is catches our eyes.

So no doubt, the Magnificent building in front of it is The Buckingham Palace, where the Queen Elizabeth living.

The grand front door

 Even though I felt a lil bad for the night bus tour but it still a full and wonderful day. But if you think this will be the best part of my London trip, then i would say you are totally wrong ! Hah Just looking forward for another post of mine.



Enjoy and have a nice day !

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London Trip 伦敦之旅 - Day 1

It's 27th March 2014 - The day I went to London ! 

Finally decided to tiny up those photos and blog about it after four month (such a lazy hah) Like most of the tourist , I'm freaking excited too before I went there. But I didn't did too much homework even I didn't follow some tours this time because I already have my own personal guide there and all I have to do is just said where I wish to go ! Lol

After packed a ton of stuff, here we go !

Here is my train ticket with trains which ready to rush out from Gare Du Nord Paris! I booked my return tickets from Eurostar.com with only 34€ For each ! (They have young ticket for you who below 26.) But if you wish your ticket price is like what I bought, then you better book it few months ahead or check it out everyday. :D

Even though sometimes the air ticket is even cheaper than the train ticket, but if you never took Eurostar before, then it will be a MUST for you to across England and France just under the sea ! It's convinience enough too that you can even print out the ticket by urself and even exchange your currently by the machine before you across the board.

After 2hours and half, I went down the train and took a deep breath. 

WAOH, so this is the freezing air in London !! 

Took a moment to meet up my boy and then settle everything. When the time came to 6pm, we then moved our dinner and also... the beautiful London night view !

We walk by the River Thames , talking to each other and can't stare away from the gorgeous night view . Forgive me didn't took a lot of pics because that will be a torture for me once I let my hand out from my warmly pocket. Lol The temperature is around 7-9 Celsius in that night and I almost freeze when the wind blow ! But still, nothing can stop my enthusiasm in discovering this lovely city !

Night view on our right hand side.

The egg-shape building in the middle of this paranormal is what they called : The City Hall.

 The Tower Bridge 

Our first selfie ever ! Lol

Took our dinner at Leon which also known as the fast food chain restaurant in London. And they did have a vegetarian menu too ! Hah

The left is Leon Gobi Lunchbox and the right is Sweet Potato Falafel Hot Box. U can get all their information on their website Here. Ohya, Peach, Lemon & White Tea Juicy Water is a must try !

We then had a walk after the dinner. Walking like there is no destination and we get in to the death-end-street for a few times Lol. I basically just follow my boy and totally have no idea where we were going until he showed me the palace where the crown of Queen Elizabeth placed now - The London Castle.

Can't stand for the weather which getting colder and started to rain, we then back to hotel after shop some foods and drinks in Tesco.

So this is my first day in London. (Day two coming soon) 

 Hope you guys enjoy this :)

One-day-visited Paris with my family / 与家人的巴黎一日游

After graduate from Paris , lots of people were asking me how to go and play in Paris like How about the transport ? Izit difficult to reach the place ? Is there have any difficulty to communicate? Well, if you are going to play around Paris within a really short time , may this post can help you out.

从巴黎留学回来后，很多人都问我那里要怎么玩，沟通和交通的问题等等。所以如果你想要在短时间内玩巴黎的话，希望这篇文章能帮得到你。

Paris have 20 district and they started around The Seine as u seen in the picture above. The 1st district and the 4th have forms much of the historic center of Paris. And of course, the nearer the city-center , the more Euro you have to prepare. Lol. Except the 1st and 4th district , the 7th (Eiffiel tower) , 8th and 16th (both well know for luxury brand) were also need higher consumption.

巴黎总共有20区。从塞纳河的上方开始的第一区顺时针方向转一直转到20区。大多拥有悠久历史的建筑物都集中在第一和第四区。但第7，8，16区消费也挺高的。7区主要是因为旅游景点---埃菲尔铁塔，不到这里等于没来巴黎，游客多东西就自然贵咯。而8和16区是因为聚集了许多奢侈品牌。看过16区的房子你才知道，电影里的有钱人生活都不是盖的。。。

 Here is the Metro or RER maps of Paris !  x.x  (click the image to zoom in)
Well I know you just want to slide away when you see this ~~ hah !
I'm shock enough too when i saw this , it's totally different from Malaysia Lrt ... ...

Actually , Paris is not a big city. As my French teacher said that she can walk from East to West of Paris in just 2hours and half !! So most of the Parisian love to walk or take metro instead of driving. So I highly recommend you to take a metro or rent a bicycle to visit around Paris like a Parisian ! :) (Since their metro is really convenient and I'm not even wait for over than 10 mins) But if u still think that the messy colourful line in the map will drive you crazy, then I think you can take a taxi at the nearest taxi station.


在此献上高清地铁地图一份! x.x (点击以放大)
看一眼觉得眼花缭乱，再看一眼头晕目眩啊 ! 和巴黎地铁比较，大马的不过九牛一毛 !

巴黎其实很小，听我的法国老师说，他曾徒步从巴黎的东走到西，也才用了2个小时半。不过也因为用走的或搭地铁就能到很快达目的地，所以当地人都会选择走路/地铁去上班。 话说那里人们走路都特别快，满街都能看到飞毛腿啊！不过我真心建议要是到巴黎玩的话应该搭搭地铁，想说更能体验当地人的生活，看见巴黎不同的一面。不过要是你是个地铁痴，丝毫没有方向感，那么就到附近的的士站搭的士吧! (没错，那里有专门的 taxi 站的哟)

Tadaaaa ~  So this is my One-Day-Visit plan for my family. We went to 5 places through these 4 station which is the 1st : Notre-Dame Cathedral (St-Micheal Notre Dame RER) , 2nd & 3rd : Musee Du Lourve and The Love-Lock Bridge (Palais Royal Musee Du Lourve METRO) , 4th : Arc de Triomphe (Charles de Gaulle Etoile METRO) and 5th : Eiffel Tower (Trocadero METRO)


Tadaaaa ~  这就是巴黎一日游的小规划。搭了四个站去了五个必去的景点！ 1st : 巴黎圣母院 (St-Micheal Notre Dame RER) , 2nd & 3rd :  卢浮宫 和 锁桥 (Palais Royal Musee Du Lourve METRO) , 4th : 凯旋门 (Charles de Gaulle Etoile METRO) and 5th : 埃菲尔铁塔 (Trocadero METRO)

Sis and mummy

There have only a flight come to Paris from Malaysia for now and it will arrived at Paris early in the morning. So after my family arrived the airport, I bring them to their hotel . After take a nap , we then go for our lunch.

目前每天从马来西亚飞来巴黎的班机只有一架，早上六七点就到了。带我家人到酒店休息后，我们就出发去吃午餐，准备去玩咯！

I think most of the chinese older people not used to eat spaghetti or western food for their main dishes as my parents. So if you have the same problems or wanna try some Bubble tea and awesome Taiwan food in Paris then I'll recommand you to go to 101 Taipei in 5eme. (5th district) People there is very friendly and they provide vegetarian food too ~

相信很多长辈到外都比较喜欢吃米饭，所以我就带他们到我常去的101台北吃午餐。老板娘和店员都是台湾人，人好，亲切，食物也好吃！而且这里也有素食哦 :)

After lunch was about 1pm, we took the RER from Luxembourg to St-Micheal Notre Dame. The weather in Paris is pretty annoy that time. Suddenly rain heavily and then the sun came out for a while then the wind blow again. So if you encounter weather like this I suggest u go and buy a raincoat or a straight umbrella. (cause those Small folding umbrella will been blow up by the wind in a minute lol)


吃完午餐大约1点左右吧，我们就从Luxembourg 搭地铁到 St-Micheal Notre Dame 巴黎圣母院。话说这刚如春的天气真像六月的天，孩子的脸，说变就变！要是来到巴黎遇到大雨天，还是买件雨衣或整枝的伞较好。因为折叠的小雨伞支撑力不够，两下就被大风吹反了。

Picture took from internet

And the next is Musee Du Lourve and The Love-Lock Bridge (Palais Royal Musee Du Lourve METRO) You can just walk through the Notre-Dame island and take metro at Chatelet. If you not sure where is it you can just ask people there. Most of the Parisian know how to speak English well. They are nice and  they will just tell you if they don't speak.

 接下来便是 卢浮宫 和 锁桥 (Palais Royal Musee Du Lourve METRO). 直接穿过圣母院所在的小岛，到 Chatelet 搭地铁就好了。要是不确定的话可以问问当地人，大多数法国人都会说英语的。

Daddy ♥ Mummy



A pose tips for you at The Lourve !

卢浮宫外必摆的姿势!

The Love Lock Bridge / 锁桥

Sis and her darling putting a Lock on the bridge !
看我老姐一脸沉思的表情估计在想要些什么吧! 哈哈

Arc de Triomphe (Charles de Gaulle Etoile METRO) is the next place we went. ( We change the metro line to line 3 at Franklin D. Roosevelt ) Didn't took picture of it too because there have too much people there and I have to keep an eye for those pick-pocket.


 接下来去凯旋门 (Charles de Gaulle Etoile METRO) 在Franklin D. Roosevelt 站时转3号线。顾着防小偷，连照片都没拍成 :/

And the last but the most important , Eiffel Tower (Trocadero METRO) ♥
This view is the farther view , if u wanna just under the Eiffel Tower , you can just go beyond 2stations from Trocadero --> Bir-Hakeim station at line 6.

 
然后到了最后也是最重要的一个 ， 埃菲尔铁塔 (Trocadero METRO) ♥
这是较远的观望台，要是想要到铁塔下面体验她的壮丽的话，可以到 Trocadero 后两站 Bir-Hakeim 然后走去哦。

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Well , if you wanna go to the top of the Eiffel , make sure you book the ticket three months before the date you want :)

 要是想要到铁塔上观看巴黎全景的话，一定要在3个月前就订票哦 !
 

It's 6pm+ now and we were tired enough. After rest in a bistro near to trocadero , we then go back and prepared for my next day's graduation.

到这里的话已经是傍晚6点多了。在一间咖啡馆休息后，我们就回去休息，为我第二天的毕业典礼做准备。

Hot milk and Tiramisu ~

 P/S: (Hi) BONJOUR is a must-learnt word ! If you were polite to them , I believe that they will willing to help you too.
Moreover, please really becareful of those pick-pocket when you go to these place ! They wont face you with their knife but you will not realise your wallet is missing and even duno when they did it ! So dont put your bag behind you and take care when you trying to capture the beauty of Paris.


P/S: (你好) BONJOUR 一定要学哦! 不管是去买东西或问路，要是礼貌的先问好他们也会非常乐意的帮忙你的。要是唐突的直接进入话题，说Hey之类的话就不要怪他们给你脸色看咯。
还有真的要小心这里扒手。他们不会拿刀子对着你，但会以迅雷不及耳的速度偷走你的钱包，直到你要用时才发现不懂什么时候，被谁偷走了。背包最好不要背在后面，拍照时也要小心哦，大老远的出去玩，要留下美好的回忆才好 ：）

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 Just ask me any question you want and please let me know if I'm putting wrong information :)
 Enjoy your day ~