Chapter 1

joulukuuta 2023 - kesäkuuta 2024

Welcome to Chapter 1 of our journey!
This chapter marks our journey along the Silk Road. We will be traveling overland 🚂🚌🛥️ (without airplanes❌ ✈️) from Toronto 🇨🇦 to Hong Kong🇭🇰! Lue lisää

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World Vagabonding Chapter 1
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 27.12.2023 klo 14.30
- 🌧 12 °C
- Korkeus: 33 m
- Englanti Greater London Victoria London Victoria station 51.494536, -0.14492651°29’40” N 0°8’42” W
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Day 22: London Victoria Station
27. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
The 3-hour Megabus Ride took us from Birmingham to London Victoria Coach Station. We then walked to the Victoria underground station and took the District Line to make our way to Wimbledon, where we stayed there for a few nights.Lue lisää
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- Jaa
- 27.12.2023 klo 17.00
- 🌧 12 °C
- Korkeus: 43 m
- Englanti Merton Wimbledon Wimbledon Station 51.421804, -0.20535451°25’18” N 0°12’19” W
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Day 22: Arriving at Wimbledon
27. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Wimbledon is a place at the edge of the city of London. It is the end of the District Line. It could be easily accessed by Tube (underground) and National Rail. 30 mins by tube to London City Center, not too bad!Lue lisää
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- 28.12.2023 klo 10.00
- ☁️ 11 °C
- Korkeus: 7 m
- Englanti Richmond upon Thames Kew Green Victoria Plaza 51.479083, -0.29275751°28’45” N 0°17’34” W
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Day 23: Kews Royal Botanic Garden
28. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Our first visiting spot in London! We first took the train to Richmond station, then walk to here. This Royal Botanic Garden is huge! Today was tough because of the weather 🌧☀️🌧☀️ So we got wet, dry, wet, dry as well. It didn’t help when we had to carry our laundry with us for the visit as the weather is so humid that it was so difficult to dry the clothes in the UK. Therefore, instead of doing laundry at our friend’s place, we decided to find a laundromat. But, laundromat is not that common in the UK apparently. Lucky that there was one next to the Garden, so we decided to bring our laundry with us to the Garden 🤣

The Garden has a few green houses to visit. The most impressive one is the 2-storey green house at next to the Victoria Gate Entrance. We have never seen such a giant green house before. It was also one of the more ancient green house, which a lot of the modern ones followed its architectural design. (Like the tiny green house in the University of Guelph, it had similar design as this one). Despite the weather and weight, we actually had a lot of fun just walking around the area.

After visiting this place, we went off to do our laundry 🧺 after that, we went to the Kews Garden underground station to take the Tube back to Wimbledon😉Lue lisää
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- Näytä matka
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- Jaa
- 29.12.2023 klo 10.00
- ☁️ 11 °C
- Korkeus: 26 m
- Englanti Greater London South Bank Waterloo Railway Station 51.502445, -0.1135251°30’9” N 0°6’49” W
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Day 24: London Waterloo Station
29. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Our plan was to walk around Downtown London today. We got the 2For1 National Rail ticket promotion to purchase the Westminster Abbey tickets. However, to fulfill the offer, you have to go to London by train (instead of tube). So we took the train to the nearest train station, Waterloo Station. It was one of the biggest transport hubs in London. We are shocked to see that it has 24 train platforms 😮 probably one of the most giant train stations that we have ever seen!Lue lisää
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- 29.12.2023 klo 11.00
- Korkeus: 31 m
- Englanti Greater London City of Westminster Westminster Abbey 51.499421, -0.12846351°29’58” N 0°7’42” W
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Day 24: Westminster Abbey
29. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti
Westminster Abbey! Today first started with disappointment, then turned out to be a lucky day! The adventure started with Westminster Abbey. Since we would like to use the 2For1 promotion offered by the National Rail, we could only get the tickets on-site. However, we saw a sign saying ‘unfortunately, all tickets are sold out today’. Chris was brave enough to ask the staff about the offer. The staff just let us in. We discovered that the 2For1 promotion was an express entry. We didn’t even have to queue up with other people who had online reservation! We could get in to the Abbey within 5 minutes. So thankful that Chris has asked the staff and we didn’t waste our day.

This was my second (Chris’s first) visit to the Abbey. It is a royal church still offering services for all. It has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and burial site for different English, Scottish and British monarchs.

Ticket price is a bit steep, £29 per person. With the 2For1 offer, we paid £29 for two of us. We spent a few hours inside with the self-guided tour. Such a nice UNESCO World Heritage to visit!Lue lisää
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- 29.12.2023 klo 13.00
- Korkeus: 21 m
- Englanti Greater London Westminster Abbey Westminster Hall 51.498686, -0.12469551°29’55” N 0°7’29” W
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Day 24: Palace of Westminster
29. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti
After visiting Westminster Abbey, we walked around the outside of The Palace of Westminster, the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. We had lunch near the outside of the Palace of the Westminster, while enjoying the view.Lue lisää
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- 29.12.2023 klo 14.00
- Korkeus: 18 m
- Englanti Greater London City of Westminster Big Ben 51.500696, -0.12456451°30’3” N 0°7’28” W
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Day 24: Big Ben
29. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti
Big Ben! The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. There are 5 bells in it. It was recently being renovated, so it was all shiny when looking from the outside.
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- 29.12.2023 klo 15.30
- Korkeus: 12 m
- Englanti Greater London Victoria Buckingham Palace 51.500916, -0.14285551°30’3” N 0°8’34” W
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Day 24: Buckingham Palace
29. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti
Walk walk walk! We walked to the Buckingham Palace. But too many people! Is it really a Royal Residence in London? It was full of people! We only stayed for a short visit.
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- 29.12.2023 klo 16.00
- Korkeus: 43 m
- Englanti City of Westminster Paddington London Paddington station 51.515441, -0.17543751°30’56” N 0°10’32” W
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Day 24: Paddington Station
29. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti
This is the other end of the Great Western Railway in Bristol. The Bristol-Paddington route marked one of the UNESCO World Heritage. We didn’t ride the whole route, but we visited the Bristol Temple Meads Station and Paddington Station.

The train station is connected to a large food area. The underground station is interesting as it is one of the oldest underground stations.Lue lisää
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- 29.12.2023 klo 17.30
- Korkeus: 13 m
- Englanti Greater London City of Westminster Big Ben 51.501028, -0.12543551°30’4” N 0°7’32” W
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Day 24: Westminster Station
29. joulukuuta 2023, Englanti
We took the tube back to Westminster Station without exiting the gate. The reason is that my friend recommended an interesting design at this station. We had no idea where it was at the station. When we arrive at the station, we couldn’t see the design. But the passenger announcement was saying that the Jubilee Line stopped working. So, they don’t allow anybody to go to the platform. We suspected that the design was on the platform of the line. But we are so disappointed that we could not get into the platform even though we were not taking the underground!

I saw the elevator was still running (even there was a sign blocking people not to go to the platform). So i grabbed Chris to take the elevator and Down we go!!! Because of the service interruption, there was absolutely no one there! We had the whole place to ourselves. A staff came to us and mentioned that the line was not running. After we explained ourselves, he let us stay and take our time! So, taa-daa! We had got a private tour to ourselves! 🍀Lue lisää
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