Tuesday 15 April 2014

London

The city of London at late evening

Alhamdulillah our journey from Paris (Gare du Nord) to London (King's Cross St.Pancrass) station was so much electrifying and thrilling (this was the 1st time both of us got into eurostar J), and most importantly we arrived there safely. The station itself was big and busy at that time. 
We didn’t explore much there as we were rushing trying to figure out how to get to our hotel. Oh before I forget, we actually bought a Lebara’s sim card to be used in UK for these few days. Okay we were lucky because we get helped by the local and she directed us on how to use subway in London. It was confusing because there were a lot of lines in UK. So we had to take the right line so that we could arrive to our hotel faster. From the King’s Cross we went to Bayswater station where our hotel located, it took us around 20 mins. That’s not a big issue but once we got to Bayswater we had problem to find our hotel. We asked mainly all the people on the street but none of them know the hotel. Most of them just know that the Central Park hotel is Baywater but they didn’t know the exact location. 
One of our room's corner..so tired

After nearly 45 mins roaming around, my wife finally found our HOME and we quickly check in as we were so tired at that time. Central Park hotel was just the other block of the Bayswater station and also few doors from Malaysian’s Hall, I should do my research first next time to avoid this kind of thing from repeated. We settled ourselves in the room, solat, ate and had a rest a moment or two because we planned to have a walk at the famous Oxford Street. There are so much to say at the Oxford Street so i will continue in the next entry :)

x

Wednesday 9 April 2014

From KLIA - Gare du Nord

Friday, 21st March 2014- right after maghrib; daddy,mummy,kak long, kak ngah, and shasha drove both of us to the departure terminal, KLIA to catch  our flight at that night. Coincidentally, we will travel along with my parents and jai because they bought the same flight to visit faris. So at 11.55 pm all of us boarded the same plane flying to Paris!! It took us around 13 hours flying from KLIA to Charles de Gaulle airport, in the meantime we slept, watched movie and being served breakfast and dinner by MAS crew. That night our flight was somehow pretty bad as the weather was not that good. But, Alhamdulillah everything went fine :) the crews especially the captain was very experienced in dealing with that such kind of weather. Despite the uncomfortable journey, we enjoyed the movies, games, foods and got some sleep so that we didnt think too much about it.
Miza enjoyed watching this movie so much :) 


Nasi lemak sambal udang *thumbs up*
After a long awaited flight, we safely arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport at 6.30 am. It was a cold morning as the temperature was about 6-8 degree C. As we arrived we quickly went to the custom post and after that picked up our luggage. My parents and jai stayed in Paris for few nights as faris flew from UK to Paris to join them.


Post before buying the ticket to Gare du Nord
We before now bought eurostar tickets in the afternoon to travel to London, hence we moved from the terminal 1 airport to the terminal 3 and from there we took a train to the Gare du Nord. Just for info, Charle de Gaulle airport is one of the best airport in the Western Europe but not comparable with our KLIA or even Subang Skypark, but its ok as it just an airport :) while Gare du Nord is one of the biggest train stations in Paris and from here we will take our eurostar to the city of London. Personally i felt that Gare du Nord station was more exciting with the facilities and also its architecture compared to CDG airport. 


At Gare du Nord train station

It took around half an hour from CDG to Gare du Nord, luckily we didn’t had any obstacle to understand the subway system in France as the map and info was sufficient enough. It was around 9 am when we caught the train and to make it easy there was not many passengers at that time because it was Saturday morning.


Since it was still early to wait for the eurostar’s train to London, we decided to have a walk around and explore the city where this Gare du Nord located. When we walked out from the station’s main door we realize that we should go back inside and put our jackets on because the wind was so cold and it was drizzling outside. The atmosphere was like you are walking out form KL Sentral towards the Brickfield but with more organized and well planned town. We spotted a lot of cafés around this area with very pleasant and amusing decoration but at the end we settled down at Mc D J as they provided free wifi. At that time we really need it to contact our family and of course; upload some photos and fb status.





It feels good when we get connected to wifi

The good thing about this Mc D was it served breakfast/patisseries/macaroons rather than usual burgers. We tried hot chocolate and croissant and I have to admit the croissant was the best I ever taste! As the time passed by we rushed back to the station to catch up our train and one more time we will spend few hours to arrive at London. As usual in the train we captured some photos and of course we slept to regain back our energy as we shall have hectic, frenzied and excited time when we arrive in London.

Bye and see u in London!




We are honeymooners@europe

Assalamualaikum :) this is our first and very own travel log. It’s been quite some time we planned our honeymoon in Europe and Alhamdulillah at last we made it!!!

There are few things to be considered and configured before we managed to live our dreams  and of course the most important things are sufficient money and the perfect timing.

Not just that, we have to put our effort on getting the most possible and manageable route in order to cater for time that we shall spend during this honeymoon.After we had firmed with all sort of things we decided to book our tickets with MAS, accommodation and also the necessary public transport tickets to make our journey silky smooth and easier.

Thus our glory journey began on 21st March 2014 in Paris and ended on 7th April 2014 also in Paris.Along this tour a lot of things happen and I must say thanks a zillion to my lovely wife, Miza. Without her, I mean if we only depend on me this vacation might turn to be our horror nightmare.

In the next few entries I will try to write more about our joyful, blissful and enjoyable journey J