Had a lousiest, most expensive and get nothing one day trip-to London.. Places visited-St Pancras and King Cross Station.
The trip started with excitement in 4 hours train from Sunderland to London. Peoples invovled: Me, sis, her bf, Audrey, Shariel(Leng lui~~wheeewhit) and Ah Bao. When we reach London, we separated. Ah Bao and Shariel headed to Tang Ren Jie for lunch. Others headed St Pancras station directly for lunch. There, I had most expensive sushi I have ever had. minimum price was 1.7 pounds ranging to most expensive 5 pounds. The dishes were tiny. The amount of rice and udon mee i ordered was countable. Costs me 11 pounds overall. 0_0...After lunch, the worst nightmare came. Ah Bao called to tell the bad news. Trains from London to Paris were cancelled due to technical problem. If that is the case, we'll be behind our schedule and our accomodation in Paris will be a problem. We took Eurostar train becoz it is the only train that goes undersea from London to Paris. Then we waited for 1 hour for more info about the train. I prayed: Dear God, please show us a way. Becoz we dono what to do next... book a hotel to stay overnight in London? Take a plane which is over expensive? Take ferry which is impossible or take the bus which is extremely dangerous. This is becoz Ah Bao just witness a bus knocked someone down when taking a left turn at 20 km/h and skid... and bang!! Pedestrians were down...
Everyone cheered when Eurostar staff announced to have an emergency timetable and the trains were operating again. Wow... God answered my prayers.... We waited for an hour after checking in. At the very last minute, the Eurostar staff members made an announcement to cancel all the trips due to severe weather conditions. Zzzz.... we waited for nothing... I wonder why they dont make that announcement earlier so that we can prepare for better alternatives... Giving false promises to make people happy, wasted people's time for nothing then saying sorry hoping to solve the problem... People are all the same.... Lousy behaviour.... We have no other choice but to take the last train home, on time. The only fun part of the journey will be chatting and playing pokers with the gals on the train for 4 hours. Shariel is such a leng lui... I heard her bf rented a whole restaurant for a night just for valentine or her birthday.... I knew why such a beautiful and nice gal is worth her bf doing that after the trip.
The news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091219/wl_uk_afp/britainfrancebelgiumrailtravelweather
The news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091219/wl_uk_afp/britainfrancebelgiumrailtravelweather
God did show us a way, the better and safer way back home.
Moral of the story: no travelling during winter time.
Sad: Missed the chance to travel with leng lui and DISNEY LAANNNDD =(
Will revisit Paris again in summer.. If something ridiculous like this happened again, we'll ban Paris from our visiting list.
Below are some Photos taken.
Before we depart, pictures taken in Front of Sunderland Library
Below are some Photos taken.
Before we depart, pictures taken in Front of Sunderland Library
The only thing we get: Cancelled train stamp on passport from London to Paris 
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