So we’ve been in London all week this week. It’s my first holiday in 12 months and I think we really got a good time to recharge. And take lots of pictures too.
Let me tell you about our trip in pictures.
Shorty and I having breakfast at Patisserie Valerie. Every time we come to London it’s like tradition for us to go out and find a good English breakfast.
It really more or less tastes the same as the English breakfasts you’ll find in hotels in Asia but for some reason we just do it anyway.
At Baker Street station, Sherlock Holmes’ home. Sherlock is a little bit more relevant to us these days because Shorty and I have been watching the BBC TV Series Sherlock. It’s a really good modern version of Sherlock if you haven’t yet caught it go watch it.
At Oxford Street. One of my favorite places to walk in London. It’s full of shopping. If you walk the whole stretch of Oxford Street and go into the shop there’s bound to be one thing that you’ll want to buy.
I didn’t really buy anything this trip though because the RM is so weak against the pounds so the only thing I bought was a couple pairs of shoes and a shirt.
And this is Shorty in Oxford Street.
Met Arya, our business partner here for the Nuffnang UK office. He met up with us for dinner on our first day and took us for ice-cream at this gelato store in Bayswater.
Was yummy!
Shorty and I took this photo while waiting at the EE store to get our mobile sim. We managed to get 12GB plans for a week. 12GB a week! How do you use that up. All the Dayre, Periscope and Snapchat in the world wasn’t enough to finish it.
Shorty at Notting Hill. We came here to check out Portobello Market. I always remember this market because in my first year of university my friends were waking up early one Saturday morning to go check it out. I said I couldn’t be bothered to wake up so early (back then as a student waking up early would be any time before 10AM). So I never knew if I missed out much.
Finally I went this trip and really there’s not much to my interest at Portobello Market. It’s mostly antique stores and all. What was nice though was all the pastel coloured houses that we found on our way there. Would love to own a home there some day.
Welcome to Carnaby Street. This is where I bought my pair of shoes. I love Carnaby Street for all the shoe stores there. Shoes and sneakers aren’t necessarily cheaper in London but you’ll find a huge more variety there than anywhere else in Malaysia or Singapore. So I always come here every trip and buy a pair or two.
Met up with my friend Alex. He brought us to Home House which is the private club right off Selfridges. It’s a really nice old house that they converted into a private club house with a bar, terrace, gym and stuff like that. You need to be recommended by two other members to become a member and you need to pay GBP 1,000 a year or something.
On Leicester Square. As a student I used to spend a lot of Saturday nights walking around Leicester Square. Love how happening it was and I remember coming here sometimes when they were having movie openings.
I came to Leicester Square a lot because it’s right next to Chinatown. So after a good meal at Chinatown we would just walk over.
My friend Alex brought us to this really good Michelin star restaurant called Roka. I liked the atmosphere there. Not super atas or anything. But very chilled and relaxed and buzzing with conversations happening on each table.
Here I am at the The Imperial War Museum. It’s one of my favourite museums in London now. Learned a lot there about World War 2 and the Holocaust. The Holocaust Exhibition there has a huge model of Auschwitz which was quite a sight to see. It gives you perspective on the size and scale of the whole thing.
This wreckage here was a car that fell to a car bomb in Iraq. Can you imagine that this is what a bomb can do to a car. We couldn’t recognize it at all.
Okay that’s it for London guys. Looking forward to coming home soon. See you guys soon!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space