Sat 7 March 2009: The Honeymoon Begins

Oh yes, we've finally arrived in London after a grueling 2.5 + 12 hour flight. Good thing we could watch movies of our choice during the KL - London leg. I watched "Slumdog Millionaires" as we flew over Afghanistan then countless episodes of "The Simpsons" from Germany till we got to London.

We took the Heathrow Express from the airport to Paddington Station. It's the fastest way to get to Central London ie in 15 minutes and there are services every 15 minutes - pretty much like the KLIA Express I would say.

Photo taken from Internet

From Paddington, we took the London cab to our hotel, Holiday Inn Kesington Forum along Cromwell Road. The fare: 11 pounds. The hotel is quite comfy but a bit disappointing because there's no free Internet connection for guests. We have to pay 15 pounds for a 24 hour connection. This explains why my update has been, well, late.

Upon checking in, we decided to go out for a look see and have dinner. There's an underground station near our hotel, Gloucester Road. So we went on the tube and headed for Piccadilly Circus. We walked and walked and hey presto, we ended up in Chinatown. Of all the places, we had our first honeymoon meal in London was at a Chinese restaurant ie Wong Kei and this is what we had:

Looks familiar isn't it?! The portion is huge just like how they serve in Hong Kong. The dinner though simple was very delicious, or maybe it was because we were just so hungry.

Guess what else is in walking distance here?


That's right, one of London's newer attractions - Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum. We just had to step in and have a look. After all, we can't come to London too often. The museum was open until midnight and it was only 9.00pm when we arrived there. At the reception, there were so many people crowding around this one particular display (note, be careful with this video, the volume may be too loud!) :

There are like 5 levels altogether at Ripley's museum and we went to each one of them. Here are just some of the many things we saw:

A huge piece of the Berlin Wall on display


The Coronation of the Queen of England. Those are actual ants painted to become figures.

A portrait of the Virgin Mary, made of postage stamps

Wedding gowns made using rolls of toilet paper. I love the design on the right.

Proof that Marilyn is like the rest of us: Diamonds are a girl's best friend and we are all NOT cellulite-free.

Lots more pictures to be added. Stay tuned folks!