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Although short and hectic, it was kinda fun too, because of the people I went with. I shared a room with Grace and Lynnette, and the three of us hung out, together with Val (when she wasn’t with her bf), tried to catch a glimpse of London.

And me being me, how could it possibly be that nothing silly happened right?

Day 1 – London!

Arrived in London on Thursday afternoon. Probably too concussed, so not much pix taken at Heathrow Airport, except for a couple, coz the terminal reminded me of hmm, strangely, a train station..

diana in the foreground, with her "dont include me in the pix!" hee

We spotted this at the airport – and got a lil’ bit excited since we havent seen it before in Singapore. Diana couldnt resist so got one, but sadly, it was frozen solid, and didnt taste as good as we thought it would be..

B&J vending machine! we teased Diana and said that the ice-cream prob wasnt fresh since only suaku tourists like us would buy it...

London weather was chilly, a welcome break from the heatwave sweeping Singapore then. Of course, it got kinda cold for me after two days – especially my hands. There wasn’t any place to stick them – didn’t bring gloves and frankly that would have been a tad too much (not like it was winter lor..)

Street scenes…

such a perfect day to sit out in the park..

street outside our hotel..

brit wit..

We stayed at the Cumberland Hotel. It was really cool! Didn’t look like a hotel at all when we walked in – more like a museum of modern art : )

at the hotel lobby..

love the dresses on display..

The hotel is near the Marble Arch, on one corner of Hyde Park (more on that later, coz that’s the only sorta touristy thing that I did – walked a section of Hyde Park with Lynnette on the last day)

 Our room and the view from the window -

that's the Marble Arch on the right, with Hyde Park behind

Didn’t do much on the first day, coz by the time we ventured out for a walk, it was close to 7 pm (and since London was behind Singapore by about 7 hours, you can imagine how spaced out we, or at least, me, were)

Dinner was kinda pathetic. Actually, meals there were bad except breakfast, coz we simply didn’t have much time. In fact for the second night, dinner was Mcdonald’s!  Seriously, no one can say that I don’t support our TOP sponsor lor.

jap curry rice and miso soup..the soup was a warm comfort for the chill, btw

And it was back to our hotel room where we promptly conked out after a shower.