London trip - Day 5

Woke up early today and requested my uncle not to cook as we are going out to have a traditional breakfast alfresco along Richmond. Breakfast was bacon , grill tomato, 2 slice of toast, sausage and eggs.Our adventure today covers the thames riverside, starting from westminster tube station. Shops selling souvenirs fill the streets and tourist from all over the world took pictures and video of the iconic Big Ben.


Our first Stop is the London eye. Hmm wonder why they call it eye when it looked nothing like one.

Trust me this over size ferris wheel is huge, the picture above does not do justice to it. ticket was 14 pounds for 1 revolution of about 30mins. Well it was kind of drizzling so the picture wasn't that fantastic
The capsule can sit probably about 12 people. We tried stepping out of the capsule but ermm the glass is blocking us.After ending our ride, we had a dilemma now ryan want to view the starwars exhibition at the county hall (he's a hard core fan) while jeff want to catch the giant whale shark (which he heard they have) at the london aquarium. In the end we decide to split up to catch more sights , as for me i kind of into star wars so i tag along with ryan.

At starwars exhibition you get to see life size movie props (starfighter, pod racer, R2D2 ,C3PO etc) costumes and models used in the movie. There are occasion when folks in stormtrooper , imperial guards and darth vader drop by and greet visitors in the exhibition. Thankfully he did use his force on us, surely we would not survive.

Thats me getting out of the flying car, while ryan snapping away.







To think you are in london, this statue makes you wonder where you really are. egypt?










Its after walking awhile that we realised its time for lunch!.. Whats better then to have a beer at Doggett's Coat & Badge a pub next to thames.








I had fish and chips in battered beer , sausage and mash, and for the brave one the kidney pudding! .. the taste of that is extreme..









After a session of posing to the camera.













Time for us to trudge on to our next stop the tate modern, which houses some of the fine modern art works from present and past artist. Currently they are exhibiting works by Dali, but that you have to pay to enter. We choose to see the other free exhibition instead...













Took about 2 hours inside , due to time constraint we had to move on to our next and final destination which is the Globe theatre but unfortunately it is closed for the day. In the end we have to settle for some gelatto , before preparing to return back for a sumptuous.