Continued Portsmouth and London Trip~~~

Ok...Now is the second part of my journey...On 9/4/2009, last thursday, John and I joined the morning prayer at Portsmouth since a brother fetched us to the coach station and our coach was at 11am, so we had time to join them...The members, as usual, very friendly, they cooked breakfast to everyone who joined the morning prayer, somemore, last night got a brother prepared a meal for us...I was so touching...After a little chit chat with the elder members, its time to go to the station...Joseph and Simon, the youth, were accompany us to the station and waiting the coach to come...The coach came and our journey to London was started...

Along the journey, I was tired and had a nap until we reached Victoria Station in London...When we reached the station, first time we need to do was finding the nearest Tourist Information Centre (TIC) because we need to wait Bro.Lin who stay at church to open the door for us, and we still got 3-4 hours time. Therefore, we need to go around the station. We grabbed a map from the TIC, and put our luggages at a luggage keeper there, cost us £8 per each...And then, we went outside the station to look for the Buckingham Palace, where is the nearest tourist spot from the station....I think because of that day was holiday so many people were there, looking at the guards from the gate of the palace...So do I...haha...

In front of the Buckingham Palace, there is a status, which is a memorial for Queen Victoria...I took many picutres of it and had uploaded to my facebook...haha...

Queen Victoria Memorial

Then, John and I went to the garden, which is under the palace (the palace includes very large area)...Along the way, I saw many vehicle and people passed my by...And finally, we saw guards standing near the gate, which mean we can take closer pictures of them...We took a video of them...

Then we walked to the garden called St.James Garden, and we saw plenty of chair at there, so we took its were for the visitors and FREE OF CHARGE, but after we sat for few minutes, an Indian guy came to us and told us that we had to pay £1.5o per each chair...What the....Nevermind la, since we had sat there for a while...Then we walked to the lake there, where there are lots of birds...and squirrels were there with the birds...haha...

After that, we walked to the palace wall...at there, we met a guard there and for sure, I had took photo with him...haha...After a few walk, another guard was there, standing firmly without movement...Then I wanted to take picture with him too, but its too many tourists there, so I dint have chance to do that...So I just took his solo picture...with his nice blade...

After that we went to Big Ben's Clock Tower and Westminister Abbey...They are combined together...haha...

Then London Eye...At there, I was scared by a stress artist, who made up himself as dead zombie...haha...And I shouted up "What the..." almost spit out F word...haha....

Since the London Eye entrance fee is too expansive for us, we decided to go back to Victoria Station to pick up our luggages and then, took underground train to Old Street Station, which is near our church...Thats the end of our first day in London...Because I got lots of activities in London, I dont know whether I need to write it out here or not, so please leave me a message whether I should or should not? Thanks....

Portsmouth & London Trip

Its been a long time I dint update my blog because of my old Acer Laptop had broken so I cant online recently. Therefore, I took this opportunity to buy a new laptop branded TOSHIBA...Haha...On 3rd April, John(the Taiwanese church member) and I decided to go to Portsmouth, where is the southest church in UK, to attend the Spiritual Convocation for a few days. Because of we made our decision a week before this, so the train tickets were very expansive, fortunately we can get cheaper coach tickets to Portsmouth. For sure, the journey will be longer than taking train. It took us 2 hours 40 min to London and waited at London Station for an hour, then took another 2 hours to Portsmouth.

At the Portsmouth station, we can see a big, iron and old warship anchored at the seashore. We were excited and wanted to take a photo of it. But before this, we had to find a toilet first. When we wanted to find a toilet, Bro.King Weng had waited there for us, so we just went to church directly to leave our luggages at church. After that, Bro.King Weng brought us to the IT area to have a look. I need to see the price for the laptop since I wanted to buy a new one, so I just walked into every shops there so that I can compare the prices between these shops. When we went in Comet, I was attracted by the TOSHIBA laptop that I am using now, and it costed me about £500 including all the requirements I need. After a long consideration, I decided to buy it...



At night, some church members cooked some meals for us since Preacher and his wife were there with us. We had a little chit-chat, and then we had our night service. After the service, John and I met the Youth there, and there is a couple who just get married, and surprisingly, they are just 23 years old...Wow!!!

During the Spiritual Convocation and Evangalistic (3 days, from Sunday until Tuesday), I had learned a lot of things about God's Words. The church members in Portsmouth were really friendly to John and me, they always asked us to eat more and more, and came to sit beside us to chat with us...I really felt warm at there...Good news was, a little baby girl was baptised at the last day of the convocation, Thank God...


Waiting to be baptised


Baptising


Footwashing Ceremony

Actually, we decided to go back to Birmingham on Wednesday, but we dint have much time go around the Portsmouth city, so John came out an idea saying that we can stay one more days here. This means we need to buy new tickets back to Birmingham, so since we need to do that, we decided to stay at London Church for a few days because we never been there before.

On Wednesday, the youth there took us go around the city and visit the warship museums. Portsmouth is an important port for UK during the first world war, where the British was fighting against the France. Another surprise was, there is a Malaysia flat hanging at the top of the root of a cafe inside the museum...Its really weird...



After the museum, we had Fish & Chips beside the seashore, and this was my second time having Fish & Chips in UK. England Fish & Chips are famous around the world, and its true, it is really taste nice...



At night, the youth treated John and me at carvery. Carvery is an English tradisional food, which every food is roasted including vegetables...





Thats the days in Portsmouth and I really like it so much until I kept telling John that if I got money and able to stay at UK when I retire, I will stay at Portsmouth...haha...

To be continue...........

PS: Portsmouth = Ports Mouth....hehe....So it should be a harbor when you first time heard the name...