Hoegarden in KL

One weekend whilst we were driving around town checking out and test driving potential new cars for us, we passed by Jaya One and decided to check out the new Cold Storage there. And since it was a sunny & hot Sunday afternoon, we decided to test out the Hoegarden that was served in Brussels (the pub, not the city!!)

OK. Glass is the same, as expected. Although it kinda looked bigger.
- FOAM was a lot more than what we were used to in London.
- TEMPERATURE was disappointing, either the tap temperature was not set properly, or Malaysian weather was THAT hot that by the time the beer gets to you, it becomes WARM.....or maybe UK is cold (but insides of pubs are not cold right??) and the beer just stays cold.
- TASTE was the most disappointing part of the experience!!! Just not the same!! Not as fruity as it is in London!! Not fair!! Why must water down draught beer!!!
- PRICE was just EX!!! RM28 for a pint?? eventough it's converted to about £4.60 which is just a tad more expensive than London, but psychologically, it's damn expensive to pay about RM60 for 2 pints as compared to paying £7.60....get it.....60.00 vs. 7.60!!

And half pint is not half the price of one pint!!


Think i will just try out bottled Hoegarden from Cold Storage la, or just start getting used to drinking Tiger again......

Times like this do i wish that we were still in London.....just for the beer!!!

NASTY!!

Domino's Cinnamon bread with the icing put on top of it.

That's all I'm going to say....

First meal!

I should write some things here......for those who still visit this blog.... the 5 of you!!

Here are some pictures i managed to pick from my phone....didn't realise that the photos the phone takes can come out quite nice too....should use it more often!


this is the FIRST outside meal we had the day after we came back......errmm........no, we had the famous SS5 Char Koay Teow the night before when we went back to my SS5 home......

Chicken Rice at the DJ foodcourt (opposite Atria's ex-Piccadilly's entrance) was really good. Didn't realise i missed the fragrant rice and the juicy drumstick.... yum yum!!

then went to eat at 7ate9 for dinner.... as usual, no pictures of the food coz it was gobbled down before i could even remember to take a picture....

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krick......krick.....krick............

(sounds of crickets on a quiet night.........)

coz nothing interesting is going on.

must make something happen!!!

We're Home....!!

We're back in Malaysia!!! It's so weird being back here but it also felt like we went for a 2 week holiday and now we're back here.

It was soooooooooo hot getting off the plane, gone are the days where you'd have to at least have a jacket with you (in case it gets cold), an umbrella in case it rains, an oyster in the pocket for the tube & buses, the many long walks getting from one place to another and the ice cold Hoegarden from the tap.....and the fish & chips where the fish is cod!!

This was officially our last pints in London!! Minutes before we had to rush off to board the plane.

On travelling to London. Next time you decide to make a trip to London, please make sure to take into account where your plane will land.

Heathrow would be the best bet, you can take a tube to downtown London in under an hour and a half and that would cost less than £2 if you do not wish to fork out £20 for a Heathrow Express which gets you downtown in 30 minutes.

Stansted is where the budget airlines land, but Standsted is DAMN far, the coach ride took one hour and 45 minutes but you get to see the green British countryside. Coach costs at least £10 to get you downtown London.

Gatwick is also far, would take about the same time to get to London, and coaches would also cost £10.

Both Stansted & Gatwick has express trains but that would set you back £20 each way....so that's waaaaaaay ex!!

So the best, even if it costs a bit more to fly into is Heathrow airport, got tube, and tube is the cheapest eventough it's not the fastest way to get into London.

A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO MARTIN & MICHELLE for letting us stay in hotel class accommodation and feeding us beer and banoffee pie and Chinese food and Sunday roasts and ice cream and Korean food (i miss it already!!) and yummy four seasons duck and more beer and salt beef baigels and smoked salmon baigels and super spicy tom yam and much much more that if i wrote it down, it would be a damn long post!!

And going out to Cotswold for the bank holiday weekend, where we were able to do this.....

don't mind the bit of 'up t-shirt' view i'm showing....hehehe

Paris Day 3 Part 3

Last stop on the Paris walkabout was the Arc de Triomphe, even tough our feet were aching like hell, we MUST make this attraction to make the Museum Pass value!! The pass was 32€ for 2 days and you can go to as many attractions as you can.

So the more attractions you visit, the more value the pass gives you right? So that's why must make this last visit la.

the rain clouds begin to clear the way for blue skies

if you see closely, the red circle is where we were when we took the photo, after the gruelling spiral staircases

and then more stairs

finally reached the top, check out the face, almost white from all the climbing of stairs

Another arch in the distance, La Grande Arche de La Défense. Didn't get to go there coz our metro (subway) pass didn't allow us into that zone without paying extra

Eiffel Tower

if you look closely at the top right, you can see Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

all roads lead to Arc de Triomphe

we were there!! just so that you know the pictures were not 'borrowed' from the Internet

then it was time to 'sortie' so that we can make our way to catch our train back to London

love the rays of light through the dark clouds

not so nice if it was not HDR-ed right?

the loooooooong way down. Seriously, can get dizzy man!!

284 steps!!

The Arc de Triomphe

the dark clouds finally gave way....

for us to have our french McValue meal on the sidewalks watching people pass by

And finally, any girl's mecca, the flagship Louis Vuitton store!! I heard somewhere that you should never carry a counterfeit LV bag in France, as the police there are allowed to check your bags to see if it's a genuine LV bag or not!! can get fined if it's a fake!! dunno how true is that.

can only sit outside and sulk coz it's still so ex!! even tough there's like so many Asians inside buying purses and bags like buying fish from a high class market!!

And that ends the Paris trip. Went back to the hotel to get our bags and off to the train station to get home to London. The Eurostar train only takes 2 hours to get from London to Paris.

our magenta hotel, we would recommend it to travellers to Paris, cheap & clean

back home......temporarily...

Paris Day 3 Part 2

The weather was still gloomy when we left the Louvre, it was drizzling a little. But bearable la. So in front of Louvre was this other arch, not as magnificent as Arch De Troimph but it's an arch la, one of the many you'll come by in Paris.

After the Louvre, must go to Musée d'Orsay, just a short walk from Louvre, so go there too, to see Van Gogh's stuff.

the walk under the rain

got pharoah on the way too

this would have been quite a view had it not drizzled that day

the River Siene

Musée d'Orsay

Musée d'Orsay was actually a post office, they transformed it nicely i must say

Van Gogh

Whistler's Mother....made famous by Mr.Bean: The Movie...hehhe

the huge clock

resting tired feet

the interior of Musée d'Orsay

After Musée d'Orsay, we continued walking to discover more sights eventough our feet was already hurting...actually too kiamsiap to pay for the metro la...hehhe

feeding the birds, the birds damn ganas, just fly and catch the food mid-air!!

another obelisk, so much egyptian influence in Paris

want to be pricked by the Eiffel Tower?

the walk turned out to be a bit too long...

i think this is the grand palace, passed by only, didn't have time to go in