Skip to main content

Posts

Iceland 2013

From London, we took an approximately 3hrs flight to Iceland where we stayed for 4 days. It was my first time taking WOW airlines and also my first time hearing about this airline. The culture is very casual and I think it is all about being fun. The in-flight announcements were made in a more causal tone and there are always jokes included in them. Passengers were always laughing whenever an announcement was made. Even the vomit bag has funny jokes on them. We opted for a hotel-car rental-self-drive itinerary for this leg of the trip through http://www.icelandguest.com/ as we wanted more freedom to go wherever we wanted. The contact person was very helpful with the planning of our itinerary and provided us with many useful information. We collected our car upon arrival and were all ready to hit the roads! Since it's winter, there was only about 4 hours of sunlight each day. Even though we arrived in the afternoon, it soon turned dark hah (which made me felt sleepy everyday...

London 2013

The first leg of our trip started at London, There are no direct fights from Singapore to Iceland thus we have decided to go through good old London. We planned a short 3 days in London then took WOW air over to Iceland. Upon arrival at London, we headed to Burger and Lobster to have dinner with Peko and Weiling. We went to the new outlet at Knightsbridge and were fortunate that there was no queue! It was a good catch up and the food was great :) The name of the restaurant says it all.. there is no menu as they only serve 2 things - Burgers and Lobsters. Everything goes at 20 pounds. All of us went for the lobsters. You can choose between grill steam lobsters and it will come with fries and a small salad. Yum~ The second day in London was dedicated to the Harry Potter Warner Brothers Studio Tour.  It's Christmas time at the studio too. This may sound stupid but I actually thought that the school of Hogwarts castle actually existed. It does seem possible for the exteri...