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Joined a day trip to Brugge (Bruges) in Belgium. Brugge is one of Europe's most appealing and picturesque cities, described as the "Venice of the North". Brugge boasts a labyrinth of canals which dissect the medieval splendor of the buildings. Brugge has classified as a World Heritage City, it need to preserve the outlook as much as it is.

It was a tiring trip, but I think it's worth, cost me £39 only.

Boading to ferry at Dover

Can't remember what is this structure call, it's to block the wave

Upper deck of ferry

Away from Britain

Having my Costa coffee in the ferry
This Thai girl is planning her walking route in Bruges

Wind Turbines in a wind farm, France

Arrived to Brugge, some of the roads are traffic free. The road is builded with stone bricks

Chocolate shop. Chocolate is Belgium famous

Lace shop, Belgium also famous for handmake lace

Hand lacemaking, Bobbin Lace is a speciality of Brugge.


Town center, tourist make the crowd

Brug


A lot of canals in Bruges.

Flea market at canal side

Church of Our Lady

Madonna with Child by Michelangelo

Inside Church of Our Lady

I had my lunch very late.

Mushroom Soup and Bread

Bruges Beer. I had the blond version
6.5% Alc yet very smooth

Very cheesy Lasagna

Ice Cream as dessert

Colourful candy dough

Making candy

Candies

The lollypop I bought

That's it, spend 4 hours+ in Brugge and make the way back with coach->ferry->coach to London

Visited Stonehenge last weekend. Stonehenge is a World Heritage Site, probably the most outstanding prehistory monument in British. Scientists has prove Stonehenge was build over 5000 years ago. There are always debate on the purpose, some scientist relate the Stongehenge to outer space; some believe that was a temple made for worship of ancient earth dities. No one ever know, however, we sure that it is for some important purposes as Stonehenge was build in 3 phases spanning 2000 years!


Stonehenge is surely Britain's greatest national icon, represent mystery, power and endurance.


Stonehenge has been shortlisted as one of the new 7 wonders of the world. Read more description on Stonehenge in wikipedia.

Last weekend was hot, the hot summer weather has arrived to London finally. Weather report forecasted 28° Celsius, but I certainly believe the temperature is higher than 28°. The feeling is like returned to Malaysia. Everywhere is green and all flowers from previous post has fallen.

Hyde Park

Sun bathing..

Lake in the middle of Hyde Park

The swams are gorgeous

Boating on the lake

Princess Diana Memorial Fountain

The water was cold.
People are soaking their legs in the fountain. It's refreshing.

This little girl was so happy.
She keep tumbling on the park

In KL, a normal office worker usually have hawker food or restaurant food for lunch, there are varieties to choose from. Mixed rice, char kuey teow, chee cheong fun, laksa, wan tan mee, pan mee, pork noodle, nasi kandar, nasi lemak, mee goreng, pizza, pasta, McDonald's, KFC, sushi, teppanyaki and many more. Malaysian really enjoy food, it's a food heaven.

When I come to London, I notice most of the office worker eat very light for lunch. The normal lunch are sandwiches (all type of sandwiches, including normal sandwich, wrap sandwich, panini, baguette, roll and etc). Among different type of sandwiches, there a lot of different in term of fillings: beef, chicken, lamb, pork, ham, fish, vegetables. I can't really accept the truth of a big English man is eating only sandwich for lunch when I first come across!? I've accepted now b'cos I'm eating sandwiches for lunch these day. :D

McDonald's and KFC are selling sandwiches too.

Friends asked me what do I eat during lunch, well, I eat sandwich from Subway, McD and local sandwich stores. Sometime I make my own sandwich. These are bagels I make.

Bagel with chicken ham, chesdale cheese and iceberg lettuce

Another bagel, just replace the chicken ham to 2 pork sausage

Friends were asking why my blog has no update for so long.. I'm really sorry for them to visit my blog and see nothing is new.. trust me, I really like to update if I could.

I've arrive to London for a month, these are photos taken from London city center.

I show photos only, to keep the post short. I would elaborate each of these place next time whenever possible.

Tower Bridge

London City Hall building

'Big Ben' and Houses of Parliament

London Eye
(Millennium Wheel)

Another view of British Airway London Eye

Westminster Abbey
Watched The Da Vinci Code? You should have seen this Church

Tower of London

Buckingham Palace
The official residence of the Queen
British Museum

Inside the British Museum

National Galleries at Trafalgar Square

Malaysia Tourism office at Trafalgar Square
M'sia government is spending a lot of $$$ to rent a place here.
Probably one of the hottest place in London City Center

London China Town

A restaurant name 中华楼
I thought 中华楼 only appear in movies or comics :p

Temple Church, over 800 years of history
You should have note this if you watch The Da Vinci Code

Inside the church, stone effigies of 9 knights

Another view inside the church

The stained glass is beautiful