Gr8 trip! :)

On tuesday, Christina, Milin, Chen and myself rented a car to travel around north england, well eventually we also travelled to the mid part of england...I'm proud to say i rented the car as only drivers above 21 yrs of age are allowed to rent the car. I'm not the oldest but chris's license has expired. well though i rented the car, i didn't drive coz i forgot how to drive a manual...hehe..malunya...anyway on tuesday, we wen to lake district, the scenery was beautiful, something like scotland but possibly its the most beautiful part of england...we picnicked by the jetty, and the swans and ducks came over, thinking they could get food from us, to no avail unfortunately. Then, we went to Lancaster(nothing special), and then to Blackpool(England's answer to Las Vegas, and Malaysia's Genting Highlands). It was particularly quiet cos its not summer yet and when we reached the place it was already evening. The beach was rather nice and clean. We saw the rollercoaster..(the biggest/highest in UK i guess). you could see so many hotels and b&b just at the road in front of the beach and you can imagine how busy it can be in a few months time...Then we headed into Preston, just a small town, thinking that we could get some nice accommodation. However, we realised that Preston is not a tourist area and there are only a few hotels(the dodgy ones i mean) in the city centre. We managed to get a room for £30. 4 of us slept together on a large bed and chen had difficulty sleeping properly cos he's a guy and he tried to avoid not to sleep too closely to milin...lol..
on wednesday morning, we woke up pretty early and ventured into manchester. It's a really big city and the buildings do not look particularly nice nonetheless. We went to old trafford and took pics of the stadium (its a must if u're in manchester).
Then we went to the chinatown(that's another reason we're there for). there's a msian restaurant but its closed. it wasn't noon yet so we got some buns(pineapple bread..'poh loh pau' and wife's biscuit..'lou poh peng')...they were quite yummy..
when noon came, we had dim sum in the restaurant..dim sum was not bad but when the bill came, we were all in shock.!!!! we only had to pay £3 perperson for the meal and i must admit we had a lot of dim sum and we were stuffed...we were really happy with the price and quality of food and vowed that we must come again in the future...
we then headed into leeds..which is nicer compared to manchester..lots of nice big buildings...then we drove up to york..we spent a lot of time finding car park ..the city is really nice because it's really compact with lots of nice wee shops around...yorkminster is impressive and magnificent but it was raining when we got there.
Then, we went to newcastle(just to look at angel of the north..nothing great)...then took a different route back to edinburgh...a route which passes by carter bar(which shows the stones saying borders of england-scotland)...our journey back took such a long time and it was raining on and off...it was even snowing half-way for 30secs or so..we finally arrived edin(our home sweet home) at almost 11pm...we were all tired, chen especially for driving throughout most of the journeys..but the trip was great...lots of laughs in the car...and lots of comical things happened too..hehe..
~*sim