Day 13-16-Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh

Scotland, without doubt, is where i bummed around the most. Slept late, woke up late, bummed around in the hotel room, surfed the net. Ryan? He had piping classes to keep him occupied.

now i'm stuck in Edinburgh Airport. Cuz we missed the flight back to amsterdam. not the flight itself actually, but the checkin time, which was very annoying. Now we have to wait 12hours for the next flight back. Sian.

Day 12-United Kingdom,Conventry

This is where I get my first taste of British hospitality. Which was awesome really.

Conventry is nothing like London at all. Except its still very cold. We took it easy for this day. with Ryan's two cousins taking us to the car museum. Apparently conventry used to be a huge car manufacturing complex. Now with the Japanese and other countries taking a monopoly of the market, its no surprise that the factories were shut down for cheaper labour. After that, we headed to the Cathedral that offered the bird's eye view of the City. Didnt do much after that. Just headed back home. For some reason, ryan and I were really really tired. At dinner though, I had the most fantastic meal i had since Amsterdam. Chicken casserol(obviously spelt wrongly but i cant be bothered), and puddings! Typical British dinner i guess. IT WAS FABULOUS! YUM YUM. Too bad i didnt take any pictures.

Anyway, my mum wants me to stay like a week more in Europe. To help her do some paper work. Damn.

Day 11- United Kingdom- Coventry

Our Day started early due to the fact that we had to check out at 1000. We did just that at about 0940-ish. Anyway, since our train was only leaving at 1343, was did some last min sightseeing. So we headed over to see, very quickly now, Trafalgar Square, No. 10 Downing Street(where the british prime minister is), the Big Ben and the London Eye (Singapore flyer equivalent). We the rushed back to our hostel to grab our bags to catch the train. We did have to run for it. Just over an hour, we were at Conventry, where Ryan has family. Its a very very nice place, very very quiet compared to London. We hung around a little, chatted with the family, walked through town to have some curry with reminded me of Mdm Kours restaurant. You will realise that I'm typing shorter and shorter sentences. Well, the reason's simple. Jonny tired. Ryan's tired too. He's snoring like a molested zebra or something like that as I type this. I guess travelling around is taking a toll on us.

Day 10- United Kingdom-London

London, as I imagined, would be a gloomy, cold, wet and unfriendly place. Well, London was in fact a very very pretty nice city to be in! There were quite a few noticeable changes in the environment we were in. And the biggest change of all? WE COULD READ ALL THE SIGNS AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE ANNOUNCEMENTS BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS IN ENGLISH! Absolute bliss. It was just like being back in a familiar environment again! But the place is damn cold. BRRRR. We took a 10 pound tour around London. Ore of the Old parts of London cause we missed the complete one in the morning due to the fact that we were on the train from Paris. I like London. London nice. Paris not so nice. Dunno why. Oh well. Tomorrow were headed to Coventry where Ryan has family there. No much to say left, so I’ll just the pictures do the talking. However, you’ll realise that I’m taking lesser and lesser pictures. Well, laziness is part of the reason, but the main reason is because the place is so cold that I’m very reluctant to take my hand out of the pockets because its so cold!

Day 9- French Republic, Paris

We decided to take it easy for our last day in France so that we would not be too exhausted for our journey to London the next day. So we decided to just visit a few attractions before calling it a day. Got off to a slow start that day, looking for the catacombs. Ryan wanted to see it. I was rather reluctant though. The sound of it sort of creeps me out. Anyway, we got lost trying to find the place. Secretly, I was rather pleased that we couldn't find the place, but we eventually found it. As it turned out, we walked past it several times without realising it because the entrance wasn't very obvious. Well, nothing much about the place, except that the place used to be a quarry until it was abandoned. then the french authorities realised,:"Hey! pre-dug graves!" SO they decided to exhume all the graves and relocate the bones over there so that the city could expand. We basically, the entire trip was spent on going down the stairs into the catacombs, walking through the tunnels, looking at stacks upon stacks of bones and the going up again. 83 steps I remembered. After that, Ryan sort of made it up too me by going to the muesee de armee, or army museum which he somehow knew that I was absolutely enjoy myself, which I did! He got bored though. But then, the place closed early, so I didnt get to finish looking at everything.=( Once we left the museum, it started to rain heavily, so we decided to head back to the hostel to slack. Then dinner afters. That wrapped up our French tour. London next!

Day 8- French Republic- Paris

Well, I'm into the second week of my European trip, and i must say I'm starting to miss home. Either that or I'm bored of Ryan. Hmmm.

Day 2 in Paris!I must say my opinion of it has changed. Somewhat. Paris is a very very very old city with loads of old history around. Amazing. Gives a very rustic feel. Perhaps this is the reason why it has the romance factor in it. We went on a free guided walking tour which we tipped the guide 20€. Hmmm. But she was pretty good though. Then after the tour we headed straight for the Effiel tower and CLIMBED it even though they had lifts. Travelling on the cheap apparently. Then we headed for the supposively famous Lourve museum. Not a very smart idea seeing that we're dead tired after the climb and museums would mean plenty of walking around. Headed back to the hostel after deciding that we're too tired to do anything else. I won't post any pictures up here not because I've not taken any, but because the Internet here is USELESS! My lappy is struggling to connect as i type this post. Oh well. Maybe London.

Day 7- French Republic- Paris

Bonjour! Paris is a 3hr 50min train ride from Amsterdam. You know, after a day of walking around Paris aimlessly, I must say that I preferred Amsterdam. Still, its only the first day, so I'll reserve my judgement till later. Ryan enjoyed himself immensively though. All the pretty French girls he saw. I did seem to notice any. Maybe i do prefer asian girls. HAHA. Didnt take many pictures today, and wont upload any cuz the wireless here is quite crappy. heh. Maybe when i'm back in amsterdam or something.

Starting to miss home now....