London Holiday - Day 5

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Oh.. before I start, i wanted to share some pictures of Hammersmith.  I remember I mentioned in my previous post that we didnt have any pictures of the area but we do have some!  Just found them.  I need to post these few pictures because I like Hammersmith too hehe.

Ok.. today was shopping day!  We planned to go to Harrods and Oxford Street. We wanted to see the Christmas lights and the buzz of these areas.  I know Harrods being the upscale department store of London and Oxford Street is Europe's busiest shopping street!  Not that I liked being in a crowd but we thought we need to go and see the place for ourselves.

So off we go then.  Our first stop was at Harrods.  We arrived around 10am nice and early but the place was already packed with shoppers.  The weather was lovely today too.  So its a good time to stroll around and enjoyed our outing today.

We spent a few hours here going round and round, looked at some items and bought some items too.  But I didnt take too many pictures here since I was so busy looking and shopping hehehe. 

Harrods was having a SALE!!!!!!!!!!

Especially at their perfume department.  The perfume were really cheap, cheap, cheap.  We couldnt believe our eyes!  We bought 5 perfumes here.  They were really cheap.  Our daughter bought Tommy Girl perfume for 15pounds only, thats around B$30.  You would never find such price in Brunei, I tell you. 

So its so worth it going to Harrods today!

See.. how cheap.  This perfume just cost 15 pounds at Harrods, around B$30 only

Then we had lunch at Tuk Din Restaurant again.  Not that we liked this restaurant so much, but because we had no choice and dead hungry, especially me, I wanted to eat something heavy and fulfilling.  This cold weather made me starved for food!

I ordered Kue Teaw goreng, hubby opted for nasi goreng and Ayang chose mee goreng.  I think the whole dish (all of them) tasted the same.  Well.. other patrons may not realise it, but we have been to so many restaurants and ate too many kue teaw goreng, that we can differentiate. 

From the internet, people also mentioned how nice the tea tarik was.  So we ordered that too.  But... our verdict?  Too much milk and less tea.  So thumbs down!

Another thing, the owner of the restaurant was around, both of them (husband and wife, I reckon) but I was hoping they were more friendly to their customers, at least greet them with a smile, rather than being so ignorant.

The overall meal cost us 41 pounds!  Thats about B$84.05 for three.  Quite expensive but we were in London afterall.

Us at the restaurant

My Kue Teaw gorent, looked so yummy but tasted so so

Ayang mee goreng

Ayang ordered this fried garlic chicken, similar to last time

The tea tarik

After lunch, we went to Oxford Street.  We tried to figure out how to get there so hubby suggested we used the double decker bus.  Oh yes.. we should try at least once.  We havent been to one yet so its about time.  Oh we still can use the Oyster card to ride the bus so we used that to go to Oxford Street.

We reached Oxford Street when the day started to get dark, so all the christmas lights were now on.  The place was so busy, so many people around doing shopping and shopping.  So we just mingled around and join the crowd.  It was awesome! 

After lunch we were waiting for the red double decker bus to go to Oxford Street

Oxford Street

Behind our favourite store - M&S

What a busy area

So many people here

Nice lights

Alot of tourists took pictures as well

More picture with the lights

I wish those two ladies were not there!  Otherwise this picture of us would be perfect.

We took lots of pictures here

I like that hanging umbrella and boxes

Some sort of sale was going on here

Survenier shops (I dont seem to get the right spelling for that!)

Oxford Street at its most glorious night.

Closer look

We also went to Selfridges.

Inside Selfridges

Ayang excited to be here

Ayang favourite place at Selfridges - bookstore!

Alright enough of those pictures.  Time to go back to our apartment.  It was a good day today.  I enjoyed our day immensely.  Maybe we were amongst the crowd and the shopping.  Very very happy!  hehehe.

In the tube, time to go back to the apartment.

Today was the last day of our London holiday.  Tomorrow we were heading back to Brunei via KL.  Huhu.. we've been here in Europe for 8 days, it felt so long, maybe I was not at my best.  But it was an enjoyable and fun filled trip.

Update on our last day will be soon.