Took an early flight out of Dublin to London Heathrow airport which is about 1 hour of flight time. Surprisingly, there isn't any immigration officers there to 'receive' us, a bit of dissapointment hit us as we weren't able to get a immigration mark on the rather clean and empty passport.
We exited the airport and rented a car to drive to london city centre, alternatively, you could take the underground(underground train). The traffic isn't that good at london city centre, parking lots are scarse and really expensive. It costs about 1 pound sterling( 7 ringgit malaysia ) for a 10 minute parking lot, crazy.
Houses at the Cromwell Road( I think ).
London signature red double decker bus.
Out first spot/destination is the famous Harrods shopping centre. It specializes luxury goods and situated at Brompton Road in Knightbridge, London, which is about 40 minutes drive from Healthrow airport. Founded in 1834 by Charles Henry Harrod but now owned by Mohammed al-Fayed which incidently is the father of the deceased lover of Princess Diana, Dodi al-Fayed.
Brompton Road as busy as ever, nice car too, the blue one is the Bentley. Side track a bit :) , the Bentley Continental GTC is a 6 litre, 12 cylinders with 550hp turbocharged engine, running from 0-100km/h in 5 seconds, top speed of 312km/h, all I can say is, these people are filthy rich.
Picture of Harrods which also can be reached using the underground, exit at Knightsbridge station.
So we went in and explored a bit. I managed to sneak a few snapshots while my wife shops for chocolates. The interior is quite amazing, I would say quite lavish, but typically british style with the ornate plaster ceiling and lights and also authentic old instruments from coffee grinder to old weighing machines.
Boxes of chocolates at Harrods food hall.
Harrods orientation is kinda different from the normal malls, all the shopping halls which is rectagular in shape are aligned next to each other, so you will have to walk through a few halls to reach your destination.
Another Harrods food hall with various mixes of coffee bean, even the sales person dresses smartly. Ambience is quite dim and I risked a shot without a flash.
It is Christmas seasons, Harrods is quite pack.
We ventured to the other food halls, the crowd in Harrods is quite bad. But we found a food hall selling asian foods.
Nice ambience in the asian food hall.
A closer view of the foods offered.
Ayam Mesak Merah selling at 1.75 pound sterling per 100g.
Outside the Harrods departmental store, there are high end shops too.
Another Bentley Continental GTC.
I managed to take another snapshot at the crazy real estate prices by Harrods Estate.
To be continued ...
2 comments:
did you take a ride on the double decker? was it nice? expensive??
UK don't stamp your passports 1? disapointing wor....it's 1 of the memorable collections from traveling what
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