shopping spree on boxing day
england trip - part three
boxing day. the day after christmas. even before the winter break everybody was talking about the massive price reductions on the 26th of december and the place to be on that day was in london. the 'everyone' i'm talking about were the malaysians in dublin, ireland.
surely enough, once we got on oxford street, the premier shopping spot in london at about 10 in the morning, a lot of familiar faces were instantly recognised. even them. haha...it seemed that the whole malay community from ireland had gone to london to spend their hearts out. some of you might wonder whether there are no shops in dublin for us to shop. the reality is, things in ireland are generally much more expensive, sale or no sale.
sale posters were everywhere, promising reductions as much as 70%, all bright and big, enticing people to take a peek in their outlets and to come out with a bag in hand.
we also came there to witness the supposedly mile-long lines in front of store entrances starting the night before. however, the first long line that we saw was at half past ten, at the entrance of one gucci store.
being the young and active youths we are (heh!), we only concentrated on the sportswear stores, such as the nike and adidas outlets, jd sports, sportsworld among others. suffice to say, a lot of pound sterling notes were handed them british cashiers!
leaving the hectic oxford street behind, we went back to malaysia hall to get refreshed (and to store our newly-acquired stuffs) and hit the road once again.
this time we headed for stamford bridge, chelsea's home ground to get a taste of a premiership match atmosphere. it was chelsea vs aston villa. one thing though, none of us is a chelsea fan, but who cares. once we arrived, the game had already ended with chelsea winning 1-0 and the only people there were autograph-hunting fans, waiting for their admired stars to come out of the stadium. after joining them for about 5 minutes we decided the players had left already and went inside the chelsea store. i, a man utd fan for more than a decade, bought a chelsea shirt. heck, it was cheap, five pounds.
just as we're about to leave, suddenly the whole place was filled with shouts and cheers. that was when we realized that there were still some players in the stadium. they were in their expensive cars which were blocked by die-hard fans. some of them stopped to sign a few shirts. we saw frank lampard, and one guy, and one guy (heh... i only recognize a handful of their players). chelsea's gaffer, maurinho, was last and he stopped a while to entertain the people. oh... we also bumped into a dubliner and fellow blogger, bro rizal.
not wanting to waste our unlimited tube travelcard, we headed for the london tower and the famous tower bridge. beautiful.
the next day, we checked out of malaysia hall and visited the stadium of another famous london club, arsenal. then we stopped by baker street before heading to victoria coach station. our next destination was leeds.
more pictures of boxing day in london here.
next on [are we there yet?] - more shopping?
boxing day. the day after christmas. even before the winter break everybody was talking about the massive price reductions on the 26th of december and the place to be on that day was in london. the 'everyone' i'm talking about were the malaysians in dublin, ireland.
surely enough, once we got on oxford street, the premier shopping spot in london at about 10 in the morning, a lot of familiar faces were instantly recognised. even them. haha...it seemed that the whole malay community from ireland had gone to london to spend their hearts out. some of you might wonder whether there are no shops in dublin for us to shop. the reality is, things in ireland are generally much more expensive, sale or no sale.
sale posters were everywhere, promising reductions as much as 70%, all bright and big, enticing people to take a peek in their outlets and to come out with a bag in hand.
we also came there to witness the supposedly mile-long lines in front of store entrances starting the night before. however, the first long line that we saw was at half past ten, at the entrance of one gucci store.
being the young and active youths we are (heh!), we only concentrated on the sportswear stores, such as the nike and adidas outlets, jd sports, sportsworld among others. suffice to say, a lot of pound sterling notes were handed them british cashiers!
leaving the hectic oxford street behind, we went back to malaysia hall to get refreshed (and to store our newly-acquired stuffs) and hit the road once again.
this time we headed for stamford bridge, chelsea's home ground to get a taste of a premiership match atmosphere. it was chelsea vs aston villa. one thing though, none of us is a chelsea fan, but who cares. once we arrived, the game had already ended with chelsea winning 1-0 and the only people there were autograph-hunting fans, waiting for their admired stars to come out of the stadium. after joining them for about 5 minutes we decided the players had left already and went inside the chelsea store. i, a man utd fan for more than a decade, bought a chelsea shirt. heck, it was cheap, five pounds.
just as we're about to leave, suddenly the whole place was filled with shouts and cheers. that was when we realized that there were still some players in the stadium. they were in their expensive cars which were blocked by die-hard fans. some of them stopped to sign a few shirts. we saw frank lampard, and one guy, and one guy (heh... i only recognize a handful of their players). chelsea's gaffer, maurinho, was last and he stopped a while to entertain the people. oh... we also bumped into a dubliner and fellow blogger, bro rizal.
not wanting to waste our unlimited tube travelcard, we headed for the london tower and the famous tower bridge. beautiful.
the next day, we checked out of malaysia hall and visited the stadium of another famous london club, arsenal. then we stopped by baker street before heading to victoria coach station. our next destination was leeds.
more pictures of boxing day in london here.
next on [are we there yet?] - more shopping?
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