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  1. uk part 3

    June 20, 2008 by admin

    monday, we took a river cruise tour on the thames all the way up to greenwich, where the greenwich meridian line is.


    the london eye


    the greenwich time line


    “prime meridian of the world”


    we climbed up a hill to get to the observatory


    beautiful skies… couldn’t stop taking pictures of it.

    well this was the day where dan expressed his (imaginary?) vengeance against pillows.

    tuesday, we headed off to look for the arsenal bear that lx asked me to buy, and found that the arsenal shop has closed down. so we took a bus and set off for the arsenal emirates stadium. no pictures that day because we spent quite a bit of time looking for the arsenal shop, it was the first (or was it second?) day of my period and i was really tired.

    went to the library after that to borrow some dvds and spent the rest of the day watching dvds. we decided to take it slow since it would be my last day in london.

    the flight to helsinki was uneventful, and it was only after i got on the plane that i realized that the lady didn’t stamp on my passport when i left london. in fact, she didn’t even flip the pages to see when i had entered the country (in other words, i could have been an overstayer and she wouldn’t have known), but merely checked that the names on my ticket and passport matched. apparently they don’t stamp your passport when you leave the country, because i have no other out-going stamps from the UK. o.O

    at helsinki, it was raining a little.

    the flight from helsinki to seoul would take 8 hours, and i had pretty much finished watching all the shows that i wanted to watch on the seoul-helsinki leg, so i was quite trigger-happy on this flight.


    taken from the window of the plane


    taking off


    we flew into clearer skies pretty quickly. :)


    hello, moon


    i watched mrs doubtfire because i ran out of shows to watch.


    sunrise

    and i think i sort of knew that it was time for me to leave korea when the plane touched down and i didn’t exactly feel glad to be back, unlike all the other times.

    that, plus the joy and excitement that overcame me simply at the thought of going to new zealand (i hadn’t applied for the visa yet).

    i never thought i’d say this, but i can’t wait to get out. :)

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  2. uk part 2

    June 19, 2008 by admin

    saturday, we went to watch indiana jones somewhere in town… a slow, relaxed day, after spending the previous day in nottingham.

    on sunday, we had brunch at chinatown, before heading to trafalgar square for the dano festival organized by the korean tourism organization.


    round 1 of dimsum.. the start of a £40 meal. heh. didn’t bother taking pictures of round 2, round 3.. was there a round 4? because was too busy eating. ^^


    dan’s mango pudding


    my walnut paste and iced horlick


    why did i take this shot? can you spot a lacy purple underwear?


    i wanted to take the pointed structure in the background, and this korean mother-and-son team covered their faces. hurhur. so amusing.


    what were rickshaws doing in the middle of a street in london?


    and a retro car?


    they were filming, apparently. spot indian man in costume.


    along river thames

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  3. uk part 1

    June 18, 2008 by admin

    the thing i remember most about the uk was that the sun rose at about 4am and set at about 9pm, which totally threw off my sense of time. i’d wake to a very bright room (even with the curtains closed) thinking that it’s about 7am, only to realize that it was just 5am, and have dinner at like 8pm thinking that it was only 6 -_-;;

    oh, and the weather was PERFECT–sunshiny perfect, and it drizzled only on the day we went to nottingham. other than that, the weather was great the whole time that i was in london.

    and i got to satisfy my cravings for certain food that i couldn’t get in korea. had £40 worth of dimsum, £25 worth of malaysian/singaporean food, £10 worth of HK dessert and of course indian food. they cost a lot more than in korea, but i was more willing to spend in london because i was in a holiday mood. ha.


    taken just before we landed in helsinki airport


    some furry flower that looked like it got spray-painted on (but wasn’t)


    the park near dan’s house

    nottingham


    the oldest inn in england–my customer R wanted to take us there for lunch but i didn’t catch what the staff said when he was telling R why we couldn’t do lunch.


    went into this museum, where both R and dan were reminiscing about things that existed, or that they had used during their childhood.


    in the museum


    very old school cash machine


    nottingham square (?)


    tram


    lunch: satisfied 2 cravings of mine at one go–salmon and curry!!

    R brought us to this museum, where we had a tour, and we were each given a “convict” number and played out a courtroom trial with the guide. dan was the accused, i was the prosecution witness and R was the defendant witness. v interesting. heh


    this was me (according to my number)

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