Greenwich + Indonesian Food!

Went sight-seeing in canary wharf n cutty sark today with ming n izzi.. Met in green park at 1am n left to canary wharf by tube. When we got out of the tube station, all we saw were buildings after buildings.. it's like a business centre! The weather was perfect, windy n sunny unlike the usual London blues where its all moody n rainy.

Out of the station..

Building with stock market prices strolling along the sides

We are to take the DLR from Heron Quay to Cutty Sark.. but first we have to find our way to the DLR station...

Still in Canary Wharf (the business-looking like area).. u see trees n flowers unlike in South Kensington

DLR on its way to the station..

This was one of the cutters used to open up the tunnels to build the tube

Alas, we're in Cutty Sark.. Off ming n i went with our cameras, taking tons of photos of random stuff n of course the tranquil environment.

Cutty Sark Gardens...

Does the river n the sky look beautiful?

Continued our walk along the shore n was met by this building. This place was so serene, with wonderful soft green grass, sunny weather accompanied by slow lashing winds n the crescendo of music flowing out of the windows of Trinity College of music.

Met with construction work going on at the Tudor of Palace of Greenwich which was built by King Henry VII, so we didnt go in..

We were there!

On our way to Greenwich Park..

Some artistic sign ey?

Who is that in the reflection?

Sun-dial showing its 2:40pm

This park is so much cleaner n nicer then hyde park~

A broadway of trees...

Peaceful sights of people playing football, picnicking..

Met with the 5 intersection junction.. ( counts 1 2 3 4 5.. its an inside joke haha)

One Tree Hill.. yes its the name of the hill.. if u notice there is only one tree on the hill!

More blissful sightings of mother nature~

Climbing uphill for around 5 to 8 minutes, we reach the top! its quite tiring especially when i m carrying a bag filled with jackets!

Amazing view from up here, looking towards the Queen's House n the National Maritime Museum

Ming n i

Izzi n i with the Royal Observatory Greenwich Clock

The exact time? it is 1 hour slow though due to the daylight saving..

The building of austronomy

We were mucking around when we got here. Each of us got our own certificate that showed that we were here at some ridiculously exact time! i was there at 14:22:0463!

in between 2 time zones!

looks like the brunei rainforest ey?


The Peter Harrison Planetarium.. its made out of copper so it gets hot when the sun shines on it!

Went to the cafe there n had a quick snack...

Sausage roll

Purple flowers!

Tasek - mountain climbing?

After spending around 1 to 2 hours at the top, its time to go downhill n back to city-life London.

Amazing view! but as u can see it is starting to get cloudy

A squirrel!

I wanted to go to the deer reserves but then izzi n ming were tired already, so we ended up not going.

We didnt go into the Greenwich market as well. at least i got a picture of it!

Soon, we were back at Canary Wharf..

Went back to Caledonian road with izzi, chilled in my room for a while before heading off to Highbury & Islington using the overground. We were going to izzi's aunts place to have Indonesian dinner! its a pity i didnt take any photos there. it would be awfully embarassing to take a camera out especially when she invite other guests as well! We chatted n introduced ourselves. was introduced to aunt Ineta (Izzi's aunt), Geraldine (aunt Ineta's daughter) who cooked the satay n Jon (Geraldine's friend) who helped out. Other guests started coming n i was introduced to more names. They were all very nice people, easy-going n friendly!

Soon, dinner was served...

The food was scrumptious, we had prawn salad n satay with peanut sauce for starters.For the main course, we had the aunt's signature dish (tender lamb in a pot of strongly flavoured soup!), spicy chicken with chilli, onions n garlic messed up to form the flavour, steamed fish with a wonderful touch of spice, brocolli n carrots in dark spicy sauce n rice. Everything had chilli in it n the feeling of hot spices burning in your mouth was wonderful! Her signature dish was exceptionally marvelous, with the lamb so tender that the juices seeped through my teeth when i bit into them. For desserts, we had strawberries, kiwis, papaya n a rich Puerto Rican glass of sweet custard with cinammon.. It was splendid!

All in all, a very nice house with very friendly people.. i thank aunt Ineta for inviting me over for this special dinner n bringing me back to caledonian road by car.. hope to meet u again sometime in the future. thanks to izzi too for bringing me over..

Overground in Caledonian Road.. looks quite old, but apparently it just opened not long ago (after i got here)