18th Dec 2005
Woke up early in the morning to catch the MegaBus from Cardiff to London, our bus departed at 7.30am sharp, and we reached London at 10.40am. We took the free shuttle bus provided by millennium Lodge from Victoria Station to the hostel, it was a lousy hostel i ever stayed before. Lucky we just need to stay there for a few hours. After settled down with the check-in, we went out to explore London City by ourselves. We went to London Eye, London Bridge, City Centre and China Town, had our chinese buffet dinner there, it's not so tasty but i enjoyed eating so much cause i miss Chinese food too much.. Went back to our hostel after dinner and prepared to sleep. Oh yaa, London is very cold compared to Cardiff, maybe it's more windy.
19th Dec 2005
Woke up at 3am to get ready to go to Stansted Airport. Check-out from the hostel at 3.30am, walked all the way to the bus stop which is 20min walking distance away from our hostel, reached there at 3.50am and caught the public bus at 4.05am, reached Victoria Station at 4.30am. We were in trouble, cause our coach from Victoria to Stansted was 4.30am, and is stated in the ticket that we need to arrive 10min earlier before the bus depart. We were late. The worst point was we don't even know where is the exact location of the bus stop. We ran here and there just to find the bus to airport. We ran so fast in the dark (it was just 4.30am) to find our bus, lucky that we still manage to catch our bus, and reach Stansted Airport at 6.10am. Again we need to rush to check-in our flight. Our flight depart at 7am, we need to check-in 40min before departure, means that we only left 10mins to find our check-in counter to check-in. There were so many people in the airport, all the counters also had a long queue. By luck, we managed to check-in on time. We were so tired and all of us just fell asleep when we were in the flight, slept until we reached Goteborg. We reached at 10.10am (local time). It was snowing heavily in Goteborg when we reached. Wow, nice snow there but it was freezing, didn't take much photo with the snow cause we can't stand of the weather. now feel so regret of it. We stayed in the airport until 1pm cause waited for my sister who are flying from Glasgow to Goteborg on the same day, her flight suppose to reach at 12.10pm but because of the heavy snowing, her flight had to land at other airport. We took 1.30pm bus from the City Airport to town area and met my sis there. After that we went to check-in to our hostel. At night we walked around Goteburg City and had our dinner in a small cafe, i ate spaghetti which cost me 55SEK.
20th - 23rd Dec 2005
Travelled around Goteburg interesting places. We bought a Goteborg pass (cost 295SEK) each and get free entrance to most of the attracting places. We went to Universeum, Museum of World Cultural, Botanical Garden, Museum of Medicinal, Casino and lot more (i can't remember all of the places we went, hehe). Oh yaa, i went into the casino for the 1st time in my life, i was so excited before enter the casino but when i was inside, it was no fun at all, i didn't gamble at all, feel like it's just a wasting of money. We get to eat the Swedish Traditional Food in one of the restaurant there, Swedish usually eat seafood which is prawn and fish. Anyway, i preferred Malaysian food more, hehe. There was no snow at all except for the 1st day, it was really out of our expectation, i planned to play with snow at there cause i don't think i'll have any chance to play it here in Cardiff anymore. But it was so dissapointed. The weather is extremely cold over there, maybe just 2-4 degree celcius maximum and minimum was -3 degree celcius. I wore 5 layers of shirt but still can feel the cold.
3.20pm, our flight depart from Goteburg back to London, and we reached London at 4.15pm (local time), took the coach from Stansted back to Victoria, and had our dinner in Victoria Train Station. My sis and her friend followed us back to Cardiff to celebrate Christmas in Cardiff. 9.30pm our bus depart from London back to Cardiff and we arrived here at 12.45am. We were so tired and i went to bed right after i reached home.
24th Dec 2005
Woke up at 10am, my sis woke me up actually. Met my sis and her friend in city centre. We went to Sainbury to shop for food. Ingi, my sister's friend wanted to cook us a christmas dinner, so we bought lot of food from Sainbury. After shopping for food, my dear and me brought them to Cardiff Bay, they took lot of pictures there. At night, we went to juliet's house to had our christmas dinner. Ingi cooked lot of food for us, spagetti, mash potato, baked potato, vegetable, and we prepared bacon and salmon for oursleves. 6 of us really had a wonderful dinner and talked lot of jokes. Enjoy ourselves very much.
25th Dec 2005
Christmas Day. Nobody on the street, it was a quiet street, we can cross the road whenever we want without looking left and right. This is my 1st time to enjoy Christmas in a western country, tought that i can have an enjoyable white christmas but there was no snow today, dissapointed!
All the shops were close and we just walked around Cathays park for them to take photo. After that we went to Amanda's house to have our dinner. Just ate pizza and apple pie, cause we don't have any food left. What's a pity day..!
Tomorrow -- 26th Dec 2005
Boxing day. There will be a great sale all over in the UK. I'll wake up early in the morning to shop and get some new clothes for myslef. Hehe.. will tell you guys what have i bought tomorrow.
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