Monthly Archives: June 2008

London, Baby! - II

After touring in the Westlands and West-Midlands of England, I once again was in London. This time I finally fulfilled my wish to go to Notting Hill.
Undeniably, I did decide to go there merely because of the movie Notting Hill. Kaho had already warned me that there is nothing worth going, but the [...]

Shopping spreeeeee in the ‘big city’

As Michelle has already started her 9-5 life, her housemate Claire was kind enough to show me Birmingham.
Same as what I’ve researched, I was again told that there isn’t actually much to see in Birmingham. But Claire was stil patient enough to take me to places where she probably had been to a thousand [...]

The final glimpse of Bristol

After two days of nudging, Cybele finally budged and showed me Bristol before I had to leave for Birmingham on the 3.30 train.
She took me through the campus when she had to hand in her psy paper and showed me the incredibly beautiful building of faculties of music and arts. We also walked through [...]

Stonehenge and Sex and the City: the Movie

We went to Stonehenge today! I was so looking forward to it when Cybele told me it’s just near by in Salibury as I, weirdly, always have the wrong perception that it is far far away in Scotland!
We joined a local tour which departed in Bath and later for three hours including transport. (FYI, [...]

Visiting the Roman’s mark in England

As Cybele claimed that there’s nothing interesting to see in Bristol, she took me to Bath today after her home made Soba noodles. After much drama of not being able to catch the train we intended to get on, we finally arrived Bath Spa by one. Bath actually had already caught my eye [...]

Last day in Oxford and Prelude of Bristol

Instead of taking Park Road to the centre, I walked on Woodstock Street as I had to go try G&D’s ice cream at their home store on Little Clarendon Street. Like Moo-Moo and Ben’s Cookies, June highly recommended G&D’s because it’s no where to be found outside Ox and the ice cream is made [...]

Becoming an Oxfordite…

June gave me her student card today so that I can fake being an Oxford student for a day and go to all the places which normal tourists wouldn’t be allowed in due to the exam period. I however did not take that advantage at all…
Before I walked to the town, I stopped at [...]

London, Baby! - I

As soon as my train from Letworth pulled over at London King’s Cross, I took the tube to Paddington station to drop off my rucksack where I’d be catching the train to Oxford later in the evening.
My original plan was to go to Notting Hill first as I don’t think Michelle and Tiffany would be [...]

Self-guided urban planning field trip

After having breakfast with Michelle at buttery, we parted at Newnham when she left for her paper 2 and I left for the train station. I originally intended to walk to town and take the bus from there since both C and Michelle suggested so. I couldn’t find the right bus stop that [...]

In Cambridge!

After yesterday’s moving, packing, cleaning, flying and riding on the coach for three hours, I decided to take it slow and not to be a tourist in Cambridge today.
Having said that, I still went to town to fetch some milk on request by Michelle from Sainsbury’s. So I took C’s mini-guide and went for [...]