MINOR : EXPERIENCING CULTURE 10 Days EUROPE Trip !! (Part 07)

DAY . 07

Forgot to introduce our breakfast on the first day in London @@ So as usual we have our breakfast provided by the hostel at the cafe area

Hazai with my daily breakfast (everyday is the same....) bread provided with jam, ham, cheese, cereals with milk, fruit yogurt, fruit juice and hot drinks (I kind of miss vegetables........TT TT)

The Changing of the Royal Guard ceremony at the Buckingham Palace start at 11.30 am. This ceremony is known worldwide so if we did not go to the place earlier then we may not get a best site to view the ceremony @@

Its only 10.00 am but we have already reached the Green Park. The folded things is the portable chairs for public use :)) During weekend, family can have picnic here. (Everyday people will come here and have a nap on the grass under the tree shade)

Before the ceremony start me and Vivian actually have booked a place just in front of the gate....but actually we have been standing too far away from the actual ceremony spot.....so we decided to just focus on the Royal Guard Parade outside the Palace :))

The Buckingham Palace lamps and carvings on the boundary wall column

A lot of people squeezing around to see the ceremony happen in the Palace

Hazai with the Green Park Royal Gate

Hazai with the Royal Guard parade

After the ceremony, we meet each other at the Green park again. (The trees in the park really create a very shading environment)

Hazai lying on the comfortable grass and maple leaves :PP

After that we went to the Stratford High Street to visit a Kid Discovery Center. The tour will only start at 4.00 pm. Therefore, we have went to look for our lunch.

We had our lunch at a Hong Kong chinese cuisine.

They used to screen to block the sunlight

We ordered set meal which included a main dish, soup/juice and a dessert. (I have no idea why Shook Fun's face look like this @@)

The roasted pork with fried rice I have ordered (Most of the food I have posted is non-halal one >< )

3.30 pm we have went to the discovery center and I have a lot of chatting with Farhana. 30 minutes is not that long when you have something to do, really. Our tour is lead by the Head of the Discovery Center.

First she introduced to us that the whole idea of this discovery center is design by a group of kids. This is the alien spaceship which crushed onto earth.

This is one of the alien

The ground is full with chips to prevent children get hurt when fall down

The signage of Discovery center

Interactive game which produce image and sound

Story telling station to give energy to the alien

A secret cave for children to crawl in and explore in the cave

The colourful toilets

The beetle chair and table

The column design and produced by the group of kid

The signage of the Discovery Center

Then we have go walking around at the Olympic Park

The swimming pool stadium (They actually used the river water as the swimming pool water)

The local children is playing with their mother at the water fountain (Another type of free swimming pool)

Lying in the lounge chair and looking up the green leaves for shading

Then we have went to the Big Ben (not Big Bang) and the Eye of London 

Hazai with London Eye take one (Illin covered his eyes :33)

Take two!! xDD

Take three (Rabbit Hazai :P)

A church we met before the Westminster Abbey. Ms Sharmila suddenly asked us that why there is no gargoyle on this Gothic church? Then she said because all the gargoyle is already flew away........-.-.......

Eco-saving electric car (Eco-friendly @@)

After the Westminster Abbey church where the royal wedding and coronation took place, we went around the area around it and heading back to the hostel after that :))

MINOR : EXPERIENCING CULTURE 10 Days EUROPE Trip !! (Part 06)

DAY . 06

Its museum day again! xD It is very exciting when you get to know that you are going to visit a museum in europe as all these museum is always very different with each other and interesting.

Today we are going to visit Science Musuem :DD

This is a church opposite the science museum, it is so interesting that because it use just a sharp tall gold structure to replace the cross @@

Science Museum signage outside the building

The floral carving on the keystone of the window arch

Miss Norji is trying to photo boom when I taking the photo of the street......haha There you go, Miss Norji cantik with the street :P

The use of shiny metal surface on the information counter which making the reflection that confuse me about the material of this counter @@ (I once thought it is finished with floor tiles ><)

The view once we enter the Science Museum...

as we walking down the steps, we can see the big skylight that provides natural lighting to the museum

Jie Si is checking on the map of Science Museum...

The staircase, the ramps for disabled users (the use of clear glass and the metal railing to ensure the open view through the glass will not restricted the size of the space), and the bench as the resting area

Several exhibited items in the Science Museum

The metal beam use to hold the task lighting to highlight the exhibits

A mind map to show James watt inventions and associations with other professor and people

James watt workshop exhibits together with sound effects and video explaining the invention and story of James Watt

The use of info graphic to summarize the information delivered & make it easy to understand :)

The presentation boards of the information in typology methods

A famous quote by astronaut Michael Collins

(Wah same name with my friend x'DDD)

Hazai with Ariel 1 :P

Hazai with the Bridge model

Hazai with the ancient car

Directory

Airplane history exhibition

When you see her look at the hand phone then you know that Science Museum also provide free wifi :P

Charcoal statue

View from the upper deck

Information board with a extruded 3D airplane wing on top @@

The interactive game zone to learn energy saving. (Lighting from the descend opening from the ceiling @@)

View from the top floor where we can see each exhibition area at every floor.

To learn material with interactive way to know about their functions and characteristics

Hazai with the model of the first London's bridge to connecting the two wings of the highest floor (I got Acrophobia TT TT.............)

Create your most economical tshirt with this machine :P

Layers of different materials form a wavy artpiece

Staircase channeled to both mezzanine floor and ground floor

Optical illusion art work

We left Science Museum at around 2.00 pm & Miss Sharmila actually wanna show us London famous shopping complex Harrods but due to time limitation, she has brought us to Piccadilly Circus to have our lunch and buying souvenirs.

Victoria and Albert Museum

London bus stop (Each alphabets example KJ is given to each bus stop as the bus stop code, the bus stop is written with bus stop name and the number of bus which will stop by and the bus map)

In europe, they love to walk and cycle around instead of driving (This guy is riding on a rented public bicycle)

The Cupid at the Piccadilly Circus!

Most of us actually homesick about the food in Malaysia.....Because it is very hard to find pure rice with spicy food here = = So Miss Sharmila who once study & work in London lead us to Piccadilly Circus where she knew there will be some food related to Malaysia here. Thank to Ms Shar we really found an Indian restaurant which serve food familiar to Malaysia xP

A simple compact Indian Restaurant with a bartender

I have ordered Nasi Briyani Kambing (One of my favourite Malay food xD)

The vegetarian sauce provided by the restaurant (This is really tasty, it is not spicy, but it did taste like Asian food :P) The whole meal together with the drinks cost about 17 euro...well rare food with rare price, quite fair :)) After the meal, miss Shar give us the free time to buy anything we neede until 6.00 pm then will decide again what to do next. So we went shopping around at the Lilywhite (sport shoes stores) and some souvenirs shops.

We met a Japanese reporter team recording a program introducing the Cool Britain souvenirs shop

 At 6.00 pm we gather around the Cupid statue and Miss Shar has made a decision to bring us to walking around and shopping for souvenirs later tonight. We have saw a fast food restaurant with a writing of Malaysia Food on the way @@ So Shook Fun is very excited and take away friend rice with Sweet & Sour Pork. After 5 minutes walking after the restaurant, we suddenly realise Farhana and Mahy in not in the team....... but we managed to guide them back to us through watsapp...I never know wifi is such an useful communication system. Then we just going back to the Generator hostel after the shopping. :))