Arrived on 29/3 in London to be greeted by a slight drizzle, gloomy and gray skies, and a chilly, 12°C wind blowing incessantly in my face. For those of you who have never experienced temperatures that low, try spending a night at your local cold storage freezer, that's as close you can get here.

Due to the length of my holiday (3 1/2 weeks), I won't flood you with too much information in one post, but split it up into a few shorter ones. Here goes!

PART 1 - 1st week

Basically I spent the first week sightseeing, window shopping, gawking at how things are so expensive here (1 pound = RM6.80, fancy a McFlurry for 3 pounds?), and more sightseeing. First up was the British Museum.



The British Museum is HUGE. Almost impossible to cover in one day unless you literally run through every gallery. So what is in it? Apparently their collections span over two million years of human history, stolen taken from all corners of the earth, ranging from Egypt to Easter Island. For all those who remember their Sejarah, there's quite a lot of stuff from Mesopotamia.


Assyrian bas-reliefs depicting various scenes


Assyrian lion hunt; this is the king applying the final blow to the already badly injured lion

They also have many Egyptian mummies (and daddies):


Unwrapped mummy


More mummies!

There was something from a place quite close to home:




Bronze bell from Klang!

Night at the Museum moment...



There also have stuff from the Parthenon (which the Greek government is apparently trying to retrieve):




Bunch of headless dudes

For those of you who still remember what cuneiform is (from Form 4 Sejarah days), here's what it looks like:





People back then were very creative when it came to making musical instruments. Talk about utilising whatever you could get your hands on.



Then, I walked to Trafalgar Square, the square that commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar.


Nelson's Column


Lord Nelson in my palm

There were also visits to the Science Museum and Natural History Museum.


Stephenson's Rocket, a steam locomotive built in 1829 that had an 'unprecedented' top speed of 29 mph


Ford Model T

The Natural History Museum is basically a collection of stuffed/reconstructed animals and dinosaur exhibits.


So this is what they did to Mumble after filming Happy Feet.


Brontosaurus skeleton

For those of you who've seen Petronas' dinosaur exhibition, it's nothing compared to what they have here. There's even a 'live' T-Rex that growls and snarls and tries to bite your head off. It doesn't help that it has really freaky glowing red eyes.



Let's hope Chelsea's title ambitions share the same fate as this bird:



So that's about all I did in the first week. More posts to follow.