I tend to eat alot, which depresses me...hmm,is London becoming depressing? I don't know for sure. I have even lost the motivation to play badminton but did so anyway to earn myself Korean at night.
Starters
And then off to grab dessert
2/3 of whip cream, so I only ate 1/3 but it was so sinful!
Headed to Hyde park the next day and I can still do this at 27!
Something I stumbled across while heading to Bayswater. A construction fence made of huge stationary!
Ate alot of cakes and sandwhiches at the park, followed by dinner at a chinese restaurant. Wah, can't beleive how bored I was over the weekend! Thank goodness I'm going somewhere the next weekend.
I don't know whether to feel annoyed but somehow if I stay in London over the weekend, I tend to overeat.Hmm...*thinking of taking train trips to around UK* Anyway,I'm moving! at work to another part of the floor for a change heheh.
Was a weekend trip (with Friday off) just to support my friends playing badminton at the World Outgames 09. The medals are really cool.
It was an interesting experience, being exposed to a different culture all at once. As well it did feel kinda awkward and uncomfortable at the same time. Copenhagen city is quite small, but very spacious. T'was my first Scandinavian country and the city reminded me of Amsterdam but more prestigious and cleaner too.
Friday started off early in the morning to catch the 8am flight. And we headed straight to grab the train to the city centre and to our accomodation, that was by the river (amazing view). We headed out for lunch near a church in which I tried the Herring dish for the first time. It was rather sour, and I think I should have gone for the cooked meat instead. We then head to the hall to check our friends playing. They were in the finals. They all won silver, and so we head back and out for dinner. We had vietnamese since it was cheap and the lady gave us watermelon after that was on the house! Too lazy to load photos here so check the album.
Next morning I headed out to the famous bakery on my own to try the yummy pastries, hehe. And then met up with friends who woke up later. Me and Joyce then headed to take the boat cruise before having lunch at Nyhavn. Weather was nice and warm, so I had a lovely tan from that day :). We then explored more around the city before heading back to get changed for the after party. Had yummy roast duck for dinner (the copenhagen way). I wasn't really up for the night since I traveled so much during the day but it was rather interesting. We actually took a boat to the venue. It was very nice, with a chill out area, house and pop music indoors. I was only there for a couple of hours before heading back. It was interesting observation though since it was a 'mix' party so yeah, kinda learning how the 'grey' people hang out and socialise :)
Last day was more of exploring the city again, with cheap lunch and yummy double scoop home made ice cream. There were alot of hot dog stands in which I wanted to try, but wasn't worth the money. And I was on a budget too, quite proud that I didn't use any of my British pounds but use up my foreign money instead. Checked out some museums, and took photos before heading to the airport. Came home to London about dinner time (in which I heard it rained).
Thought of the best way to ease the reading and me taking time updating :) . Click on the links below to read my Italy trip. I left the last few as a picture album as pictures can speak a thousand words.....cheh wah. No la, I got lazy to blog really. Hehe
Hen's do; the bride to be's mum is a close friend of my ex-gymnast friend's mum! And they are both now in NZ.
And then here I was trying to make Hainanese Chicken Rice at a friend's place and along came a guy whom I have never met in my life who knows my mum because she taught in the same high school he was in.
And then I finally caught up with ex-gymnast friend of mine who has seen me around NZ for the whole time but never knew that I was there until I left for London. And the freakiest part was that her dad is a close friend of D's dad! And he didn't recognise me!
World is getting tinnier and tinnier as I am growing older and older..........
We left Sorrento and headed to Amalfi through the coastal areas. We passed a city called Positano, whereby we tried to look for a park to have lunch but no luck since the road were narrow and there was tow away signs everywhere. We skipped it and headed off to the next small town (I can't remember what it was called).
Driving through these small towns were quite interesting in the sens that the road were narrow and each town were quite close to each other (no gaps in between). The views were amazing through the journey.
Like Malaysia, there were side stalls and tunnels while driving
Some of the towns we passed and will be
Side stall
Tunnel
Lunch
D's lunch, alot of gnyoki (carbs) heh
My dessert tiramisu, shared
The day was shorten while we were looking for our next accomodation, as we over drove past the place in which not having a GPS nor phone signal helped. So after 2 hours (which took us to about 4pm), we finally found the lady and she took us to the place. We parked our car and walked through a few alleys. This place was unrated but was also family owned and a new business. We were amazed when arriving because the place really show what local accomodation in South Italy is all about taking away the tourist over-rated places.
Check this out, parking slip that was used in Malaysia at one stage. It's like a scratchy...scratch the hours you want
2 hours later...Mini town where the accomodation is, half an hour drive from Amalfi
Footpath leading to the place
Entrance, greeted by grape vines. So pretty
I am amazed...I had to touch them!
We stayed in one room for 6, there were 4 bunk beds and a queen size bed. Very comfortable B&B accomodation with air conditioning, amazing hill view, hot shower, large linens, breakfast in the morning, requested reasonable dinners if we want and of course washing services.
Since the day had ended, we drove out along the coastal area to admire the view. We stopped somewhere close to admire the view before dinner came quick.
Amazing
Here comes another exciting bit...hungry = find restaurant = any trattorias + carpark space. So when all equation equals, we went into another one, not realising that it was a Michelin restaurant after we got out! The waiter spent a good 3 minutes explaining each dish we asked to the minute and passionate detail. He even gave a few pointers to make it your own at home! Talk about sharing is caring. I love people like this, they can go very far in life.
Starters, and on the house - Bread, deep fried Zuchinni flowers in flour and a slice of octopus as a sample to try. It tasted like chicken. Even one of our friends who was not into seafood loved it!
Highly recommended dish - The all time spaghetti seafood that was popular since 1969 and was made to that way ever since. Comes in a paper bag.
Me and my deep fried zuchinni flowers stuffed with cheese of all sorts
And when we finished, they gave us FULL bottles of lemoncello and meloncello! I could only afford one shot of course
Amalfi at night, in which we saved it to check out the next day
Clear night
We got back to our room, having to be greeted by one of nature's 'friendliest' creatures....a scorpion! OMG, and I thought it was just a toy stuck on the wall. David has never done something crazy in his life to capture it and he did it smoothly as always. It's a baby one but they are much softer when you try to slide them. Absolutely crazy.
Hello
The rest of the final days will be a picture post as I am getting tired of writing (yea yea, super lazy la) and I'm sure you're getting tired of reading,kekeke. So don't be surprised if the other links to the photo album instead :)
