Travel blog
There is a Japanese patisserie “WA café” near the Leicester Square station or Covent gardern.
Montblanc, Strawberry short cakes, Green tea roll cakes, Cheese cakes Mango passion fruits mousse etc in the show window. Prices are about 4 to 4.5 pounds, 5 pounds eat-in.
Strawberry short cake is a very popular cake in Japan, sponge and fresh cream combination, which is not so sweet. All cakes modesty sweetness.
Lavender season has arrived. Alton Lavender farm (click the link) “Lavender fields” will open soon from the 30th June. Access to Alton Lavender fields, by car is between the A31 and A3 set post code GU343HD for Navi.
Lavender is known as sleeping aid, helping you get a better quality sleep. Better sleep improves your life daily performance, it’s a very important factor. Your sense of smell is said to be the most rudimentary of the 6 sences, smell directly works to brain, calms down nerves, generates alpha brain waves.
Here is Lavender fireld entrance.
A variety of Lavender pots are there.
Lavender fields, you can only see these lavenders in early summer season, hurry!
Original Pure Lavender essences, smells really nice.
After visiting Alton, visit Alton town central, where you can have lunch, there is a cheap and nice atmosphere Thai restaurant (Click the link) RIVER KWAI Restaurant, about 7 pounds main meal Pat Thai, Tom Yum soup is 5 pounds served with Prawn or Chicken.
In London, there seems to be so many thieves. If you are not careful in one moment, they will snatch your things away.
One day, I forgot to close my car door, they stole my sunglasses, brand new hydraulic jack, jump tool and a tool box. These will probably be sold on eBay or something by the thief.
At Chapham Junction station, someone stole my laptop bag, he picked up my laptop bag, which I had left on the ground between my legs.
He got on the train with my laptop bag, the train which just arrived to Waterloo at the other side platform and was gone. Security camera impossible to find him, because covered face with mask.
Thieves consider themselves to be stronger than honest people, to them nowdays an honest person is considered a fool..
There is an ancient Roman town with heritage ruins, this town continued until around the 5th or 6th century, was abandoned when the Roman Empire sank, return to dust and found again in the 19th century by excavation, the site’s name is “Silchester Roman Walls”.
Access to Silchester Roman Walls by car; set the postcode as RG7 2HP, the site is between the M3 and M4 motorways, about 13miles from Reading.
This town was rebuilt by Romans in AD43 after being conquered by the Roman Emperor Claudius. In Iron age Britain the village , all were haystack houses was thre, these were replaced by advanced Roman civilisation insula apartments, they brought water supply and drains.
There were British hardy brute courage people to regist Roman army.But they had no leadership, no collaboration, individually strong but had no team work, like the Roman army has great leadership and team work, they fell swooped upon by the organised Roman army at once.
This SIlchester site is about 2.2 miles in diameter, a huge yard, in the Roman era AD43 to the 5th or 6th century it propagated a big town, after the Romans left, the site has been run-down.
This was the North Gate site, there used to be a Roman gate guard to check out all accessing people.
Now is good walking course.
There were entertainment centres as well, for example a Colosseum. Now there still remains a half broken down Colosseum.
There is also a 12 century Church and a graveyard around the Church.
This is a Malaysian condominium at the top of a hill in Kuala Lumpur Bangsar, the view is of the telecom Malaysia building, usually every condominium is very luxurious, with a gym, a swimming pool and 24 hours security.
The tall building at the front is the Telecom Malaysia building in the photo below, it contrasts starkly with the apartments white bulgiung on the left side, these are local people’s houses.
From the laundry rope hanging from each room, we can guess, it seems that so many people are packed in living there, maybe big families.
Waverley Abbey in Hampshire was founded in 1128 by winchester cathedral bishop William Giffard.
Which has been used as a cistercian community for 400 years since then and bashed by King Henry Ⅷ in 1536.
This Abbey ruins were founded a family who owned property in 18 century and preserved until now.
There is a special atmosphere usually ruins have which give visitors ominous feelings.
Suit to Horror films.
Here is a room monks used sleep in here.
There is a cat his name is Pingu, he usually catch mice, but this time caught a rabbit, he tried to show this prey to his owner, expected complement, “well done, you did a big job today”.
But he got scolded by his owner, and the owner let rabbit go, told him don’t do such a cruel things. He has disappointed very much.
Pingu asked owner take him to go to Peter Rabbit movie, his favorite James Corden is doing Peter’s voice, but owner told him, not allowed.
Birdworld is a bird zoo, located in East Hampshire, by car come from the M25, by train the nearest train station is Alton by South Western trains. There are lots of birds from all over the world.
There is an owl corner, many types of different owls are there, they are actually awake even in the daytime, and under their nests there are some baby chicks.
” I am sorry messing around, I will clean up tomorrow” these are message from them.
There is a friendly Rea, they approached us with a greeting.
Also some little Penguins were there getting fed.
There was a Heron watching near the penguin corner, very envious, he was wishing for getting a small share of the food.
※all photos permitted by birdworld to use