Day 2 in London. Tourist Style!
Day 2 in London yay! Where the jet lag still hanging! We woke up at 3am, felt fresh just like we want to work. I thought about it on why we feel fresh, probably it’s 9am in Jakarta time.
So, day 2. Of course we want to visit the clock! Big Ben and Buckingham Palace.
We started the day at 8am, a clear day and chill weather to go out seriously! Since our neighbourhood was super quite and peaceful, we enjoyed our morning time while walking into station. I called it A Chillaxing Saturday Morning. Ahh.. fall already begin I supposed.
You know, my first Yahoo! ID was waitingtofall means I wait the fall season to start on my life. The colors of the leaves fascinated me and see it begins to fall in to your feet, It’s beautiful.
So Victoria Station it’s where all we began our trip for today. With help of Google Maps (thank you Google Maps! you just made our day easier) we can have a direction to go to Buckingham Palace, St. James Park and Big Ben in short time.
But first, we need to have breakfast and coffee.
Since we fell in love with coconut latte at Pret a Manger (which become our favorite coffee shop in here, rather than Costa), we decided to have that again in this very morning. We bought that and tuna sandwich to take away. Bear in mind that the price that you dine-in and take away is different as 1 pound. It’s cheaper to take away rather than to eat in the place. Strange? yeah I still don’t understand.
Warning : After this line, you will be see lots of my face and also my husband’s face on the photos. Pardon the narcissistic. You’ve been warned. :D
We took photos while we walked lol.
Here we are at Buckingham Palace!
Yours truly photograph. Awesome as always, right? Ha ha ha.
We just sat down beneath the Victoria statue, drinking coconut latte and admiring the palace while we read about the history on the internet ha ha ha. You might called us poser but hey, we need to know the history about this place, right? 😁
We also wondered on how Mr. Bean can disturb the palace guard on one of his episode.
This place is so crowded, so please beware of your belongings!
To go to Big Ben, we must go via St.James Park. Famous park and also lovely that you can see swans, ducks or birds. I found squirrel that collecting acorn beneath the tree! St.James Park, as London has so many park, this one is one of the biggest park. Just take a walk through there, enjoy the view and disconnect from the world it’s good enough. We sat on the bench and enjoying our tuna sandwich and the birds start to staring at us. 😁
Big Ben
Yet here we are!! There’s Big Ben for afar~ Do you noticed the grey steel surrounding the clock? Apparently, Big Ben is being renovate and guess what? No sound! no BONG! BONG! This clock still on silent mode until 4 years from now. So unlucky for both of us.
It’s a cloudy day but it’s still cool. Thames river well.. you’re cool too. The view was beautiful, just like in a Hollywood movie.
The Big Ben area also a crowded place too! Again, take care of your belongings!
After we see the view of Thames River, Westminster, Golden Eye and Churcill statue, I was thinking, hey we’re on the most iconic things in the world! Must be good what to see inside. Well, actually you can go inside, just buy a ticket or buy a London Pass but we didn’t want to. We really want to enjoy the city by walking on this travel time. Ha Ha Ha.
Don’t forgot to mention the 10 Downing Street (Prime Minister’s lair), House Guard Palace even though we only see one guard with the horse. It’s kinda bit spooky to walk because it’s really quite area and the police was bringing guns.
It’s near lunch time, so we go to… Borough Market!!
I’ve been following their Instagram account for a while and this market is a much visit if you like food like me ha ha ha. I’m curious to go there! So we took the tube to London Bridge station from Westminster station.
Oh by the way, couple things about London are.. Not all station provide toilet. So you need a small tube map to inform you where is the nearest toilet. And please, bring your own water. Just because.
Since it’s a lunch time, the place is packed! Hmm.. or every time it’s packed? I don’t know fo sho but I was starving and need fooood.. Halal foood…~ So we find ourselves here, where every tent selling food. Either fruits, pastry or organic food. I couldn’t find oyster everywhere. I really want to eat that actually!
There was also a pub, where everyone drink beer. They drink outside the pub, smoking and chat with their friends standing while the weather was pretty good. Cold a bit.
No, we didn’t eat that sweet pies lol. We bought fruit instead. My husband is avid fan of fruits. So we tried a lots of fruit while in here. As for lunch, we found this pulled lamb stall and we were really interested to try that!! As you can see, there’s a lamb and rice! What could it be more perfect! So we ordered, for 8 pounds. large meal for us two.
You can eat anywhere and there’s no table by the way. Hahaha. In London so many supermarket and coffee shop selling ‘Food on The Go’. Like sandwich, bread that you can eat while you’re walking, but we’re Jakartans, we need sometimes a proper way to eat lunch. But I don’t have major problem with eating. I once told my dad when I was teenager perhaps that human needs a capsule to eat and they can choose the flavor and while they’re eating that, human can have a full stomach.That was me, that time.
And as for this lunch, still no dessert.
Tower Bridge
We were walking through to Tower Bridge, a strong and modern bridge. One of the iconic landmark in London. I loved how it looks!
We walked and talked a lot, doing P.D.A (lol not really) and enjoy the sunny weather once again on the area, see how many people jogging, eating ice cream, I turned off all notifications on my phone, no distraction, just enjoying the city life. It was good idea you know, turning off the notification.
While we were walking, we saw probably three choppers fly above. Since the tube explosion we saw police everywhere and siren. My friend said that they’re increasing the security to critical. Well you got that right!
And I read the breaking news that they already caught the suspect.
What an awesome half day! So, for another half, we decided to go to Imperial War Museum.
You must go here if you want to know about World War. The histories were so detail and interactive. From torpedoes, Berlin Wall and the diorama on how many layers they need to go before they reached the wall (you need to survive and strive to go to the Wall), the Enigma machine and all about the war propaganda. The building has four floors while on the fourth floor is about Holocaust. I got goosebumps. No photos allowed.
Finally an ice cream!
Well, we tired already but it was fun day, we spent the evening at Piccadilly, hanging out seeing people going here and there. For the dinner we chose Nando’s… You were our fav while in here. We ate on your restaurant three times and totally fond of the chicken.
10pounds on half chicken and unlimited amount of sauce, surely this one was the answer for our dinner. Ha Ha Ha.
Long day in London. I am gonna write about Manchester and soon, Edinburgh, city that has a special place in our heart.
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