Holiday in UK (December 2006)

19th Dec 2006 - this time we went to explore UK by car. Pakchaq joined the trip. We left home early to catch the ferry in Callais, France. The trip to the ferry was about 3 hours. Weather was perfect, full of sunshine. We were very excited!

Calais was a huge port which transport thousands of people, cars, trucks, lorries and buses every day between mainland Europe and UK. Our ferry was called P&O; nothing like our Penang ferry. It was a huge big ship like in the movie, complete with restaurants, shopping area, children playroom etc. The ferry trip was only 1.5 hour. Alhamdulillah, tak pening2 loya2...in fact rasa best pulak!

1sy day - Sheffield (up North England)
We stayed at our friend's house. The next few days we spent driving around - to the outlet centre in Mansfield & Chesire Oak (the biggest outlet in UK), we passed the highest point in UK Motorway. The scenery was fabulous...green hills, blue skies, rivers, sheeps (sama je macam kat rumah we all). Living in lowlands Hollands, kami jakun laa tengok bukit ha ha.

Then we went to Conventry to visit another friend. From there, we explored Warwick University, Oxford, Stratford-Upon-Avon (kampung Shakespeares), Stoke-on-Trent (tempat shopping pottery like Royal Doultan, Potmeiron etc) and of course London on Boxing Day. There were so many people in London, like madness.

We returned to Voorschoten, our home sweet home, on the 30th Dec 2006. Quite exhausted, in fact Farah Sofea demam and batuk2. Alhamdulillah we were back on our feet a week later. It was indeed a wonderful journey, we'll definitely going again to UK insya Allah!