United Kingdom - The Queens State
God save the 'Queen' is something everyone is familier with. UK is one of the few countries in the world where there is Monarchy.
Its not my first time here in London so i won't add it to my 'countries visited list'. London is great! its its 24-hrs fun packed expensive life style, bars, cafes, restuarants, clubs, cinemas, theatres.... this is 'a place to be' for people like me. I am seriously considering to move to London from 2007.
My dearest Aunt Mrs.Hassan lives here with her family. She's much more than just-an-aunt to me. Her son, the only child she has, is more elder brother to me than anyone in the whole world. So, coming to London from Zurich was move kind of coming from one home to another or in other words, my last chance to re-think & repack before i am off for a few months on the road where i do not know good or bad people, moments, situations are waiting for me!
hey, btw, i had a very exciting(?), last day in Zurich - Full of happening things... I woke up fresh in the morning, saw my things ready to be packed in the bag - couldnt make the first move to really pack them so i asked Chris's help while in return i prepared breakfast for us. His organizational skills sometimes are really helpful so he packed my bags within an hours or so 'absolutely perfectly' - Thank you Chris! then after checking the regular mail boxes and managing last minute things in the rooms, i was a bit tired so i decided to take a nap in the afternoon. So the drama starts from here... i woke up 30 mins late which means i had just another 30 mins to get up, take a shower, shave and run to the Oerlikon Station in order to catch my train to the Zurich Main station from where my Intercity Train to Geneva Airport was departing at 18.04 hrs. I JUSTTTT made it! I was in the train and the doors got locked :) I said to myself - Hey Umer! good start to your world trip and virtually gave a pat on my back. If it continued like this then it'll be A lot of STRESS but a lot of Adventure - i hope i always catch my trains or planes :P hehe
.... but this was not end of the exciting day. My train arrived perfectly on-time as 99% of the Swiss train. I easily checked myself in at the Easy Jet check-in kiosk/Machine at Geneva airport. The airport was absolutely desserted! shops and airlines coounters shut, no sercurity guards or cleaners and to my utmost surprise, when i said good evening while opening my passport he didnt even bother to turn his head around or have a look even at my photo but he just nodded and thanks -merci-. So, that was easy but what was coming up was not at all easy. My flight was suppose to fly at 22.30 hrs and i was there around 21.45 hrs and guess when did it fly ? at 00.15 -f**k!!! because the plane arrived late so it flew late. I waited 2 1/2 hrs at the boring airport gate 42 for my flight. I was so tired that as soon as the plane was airbourne i fell asleep and only woke up when the two little naughty boys sitting next to me were making considerably loud noise :0 Finally, the plane landed at Stansted at 00.30 UK timei rushed through the long walk ways until the immgration and i couldnt stop myself from my eyes bulging out when i saw the LONGEST EVER Que at an airport terminal in Europe in my entire life - around 10 rows filled with minimum 20-25 people each with just 2 immgration counters operating !!! This was the last thing i expected especially at time!!! there was no other way out so i stood in the Que for 45 mins and .... YES! I finally arrived in Queen's State in the early wee hours of 6th August 2006.
Today is my first Intercontinental flight of this RTW trip (to Singapore) at 20.25 GMT arriving in Singapore on 9th Augusut at 17.40 Singapore Time (09.40 GMT) Then in Singapore i have approx. 4 hrs before flying to next continent - Yes i wrote CONTINENT instead of a country :) Austalia will InshAllah (= I.A) be my 5th continent after Asia, Africa, Europe & North America and i am very excited to go there!
So, that's all from UK & Europe for the moment. Now i am going to have m lunch, shower & shave <(no afternoon this time!!! ;)> before i leave for the airport.
Next Stop: SINGAPORE!!!
Bye bye all in Europe... Catch you guys in October I.A!!! xxx
Be happy - whatsoever!
Umer.
Its not my first time here in London so i won't add it to my 'countries visited list'. London is great! its its 24-hrs fun packed expensive life style, bars, cafes, restuarants, clubs, cinemas, theatres.... this is 'a place to be' for people like me. I am seriously considering to move to London from 2007.
My dearest Aunt Mrs.Hassan lives here with her family. She's much more than just-an-aunt to me. Her son, the only child she has, is more elder brother to me than anyone in the whole world. So, coming to London from Zurich was move kind of coming from one home to another or in other words, my last chance to re-think & repack before i am off for a few months on the road where i do not know good or bad people, moments, situations are waiting for me!
hey, btw, i had a very exciting(?), last day in Zurich - Full of happening things... I woke up fresh in the morning, saw my things ready to be packed in the bag - couldnt make the first move to really pack them so i asked Chris's help while in return i prepared breakfast for us. His organizational skills sometimes are really helpful so he packed my bags within an hours or so 'absolutely perfectly' - Thank you Chris! then after checking the regular mail boxes and managing last minute things in the rooms, i was a bit tired so i decided to take a nap in the afternoon. So the drama starts from here... i woke up 30 mins late which means i had just another 30 mins to get up, take a shower, shave and run to the Oerlikon Station in order to catch my train to the Zurich Main station from where my Intercity Train to Geneva Airport was departing at 18.04 hrs. I JUSTTTT made it! I was in the train and the doors got locked :) I said to myself - Hey Umer! good start to your world trip and virtually gave a pat on my back. If it continued like this then it'll be A lot of STRESS but a lot of Adventure - i hope i always catch my trains or planes :P hehe
.... but this was not end of the exciting day. My train arrived perfectly on-time as 99% of the Swiss train. I easily checked myself in at the Easy Jet check-in kiosk/Machine at Geneva airport. The airport was absolutely desserted! shops and airlines coounters shut, no sercurity guards or cleaners and to my utmost surprise, when i said good evening while opening my passport he didnt even bother to turn his head around or have a look even at my photo but he just nodded and thanks -merci-. So, that was easy but what was coming up was not at all easy. My flight was suppose to fly at 22.30 hrs and i was there around 21.45 hrs and guess when did it fly ? at 00.15 -f**k!!! because the plane arrived late so it flew late. I waited 2 1/2 hrs at the boring airport gate 42 for my flight. I was so tired that as soon as the plane was airbourne i fell asleep and only woke up when the two little naughty boys sitting next to me were making considerably loud noise :0 Finally, the plane landed at Stansted at 00.30 UK timei rushed through the long walk ways until the immgration and i couldnt stop myself from my eyes bulging out when i saw the LONGEST EVER Que at an airport terminal in Europe in my entire life - around 10 rows filled with minimum 20-25 people each with just 2 immgration counters operating !!! This was the last thing i expected especially at time!!! there was no other way out so i stood in the Que for 45 mins and .... YES! I finally arrived in Queen's State in the early wee hours of 6th August 2006.
Today is my first Intercontinental flight of this RTW trip (to Singapore) at 20.25 GMT arriving in Singapore on 9th Augusut at 17.40 Singapore Time (09.40 GMT) Then in Singapore i have approx. 4 hrs before flying to next continent - Yes i wrote CONTINENT instead of a country :) Austalia will InshAllah (= I.A) be my 5th continent after Asia, Africa, Europe & North America and i am very excited to go there!
So, that's all from UK & Europe for the moment. Now i am going to have m lunch, shower & shave <(no afternoon this time!!! ;)> before i leave for the airport.
Next Stop: SINGAPORE!!!
Bye bye all in Europe... Catch you guys in October I.A!!! xxx
Be happy - whatsoever!
Umer.
posted by Umer at 2:45 pm
1 Comments:
Hello Ümer,
I hope you weren't delayed because of the stupid attack warnings in London.
Next time, don't take your Swiss knife with you in the plane :)
Just kiddin'
Wish you well in Singapore.
Your friend,
Quintus
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