Honeymoon - London: Highlights

Since London is a big city, most of the time was spent shopping and some sightseeing. 
There were a lot of  museums, churches and historical sites, so we only picked and chose what we were interested cause there were just too many! 

Highlights were:
Warner Bro Studio Tour of the Making of Harry Potter
Oxford day trip
Tour of Windsor Castle, Stonehedge and Bath
I love the city of Bath!  

Oh, and I only watched Harry Potter only when we decided to go for the tour and I did a marathon the night before, all the way to during flight. We didn't sleep because we immediately followed the Finland timing so we can minimise the jet lag. It helps!

Here's my highlights :)  

The butter beer taste great, although I don't know what's the ingredient! I asked, they say it's a secret.

Oh, did you know - The movies that always show the "London Bridge" is actually not London Bridge! It's called Tower Bridge. The bridge opposite this Tower Bridge is London Bridge which is not spectacular.... 

This marks the end of our Honeymoon blogging. This took very long! 

It is definitely a memorable trip and journey with this boy, he obliged to my one-month honeymoon and he took a lot of effort to plan! Thank you! :) 

Honeymoon - London: Liverpool Legends Charity Match

One of the highlights that I die die wanted to do was watching a live Liverpool match. So we planned our trip around that only match. 

So, we took a train early in the morning from London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street station which is around 2+ hours. Then we toured around the city, mainly the dock area. 

Only did I realised on that day that The Beatles were formed in Liverpool! Being tourist, we took a touristy photo of course... 

After that we had lunch and made our way to Anfield Stadium. There were pre-match activities and when we reached there, there were roadside stalls selling street food and souvenirs. The atmosphere was bustling and hyped! 

We couldn't get the VIP tickets so we bought the best we could... I had goosebumps when the match started because everyone stood up and sang the Liverpool anthem. It was loud and very motivating. It was like NDP except maybe louder.

Soon, the match ended in a blink of an eye. We lingered around to take more photos and savour every moment. 

As we had some time to spare and Everton Stadium was nearby, we decided to walk over and take some photos. 

That was the end of the our day, and we took the train back to downtown. 

It was a memorable experience for me, and I would totally go for another match again if there was a chance! 

Honeymoon - Iceland: Hofn, glacier lagoon, Skogafoss

Our next 2 days we travelled even further, which I think not many tourist did so during winter. Usually what I've heard is people going to the golden circle that's all. 
What I really enjoyed was the relaxing freedom to go a few places and spend more time rather that being rushed around. Plus, having a car is a benefit. 

I know it's just ice, but I feel amazed by such nature wonders, super big ice rock melting as the winter goes away. 
I may not like extreme coldness, but somehow I realise I like winter because it gives a cozy feel and reminds me of Christmas. 

Along the way we saw Icelandic horses! We decided to stop by and take some photos! Icelandic horses are smaller in size, like pony like, but they are called horses. 
Such a beauty.

Our last stop was Skogafoss, and when we went there, it was drizzling quite a fair bit. 

The next day was our final leg, London! Will document some of the highlights instead of a daily post! Please be patient! 

Honeymoon - Iceland: Glacier walk

This morning was our ice cave and glacier walk hiking!
The meeting point was at Skaftafell as well, the same place we went trails yesterday. 
We booked with Iceland Mountain Guides and the guide that day was really friendly and explained everything so well. 

Unfortunately they told us beforehand that the ice cave is unsafe due to weather conditions so we had a refund back of our money. So sad. 

We spent quite a bit of time gearing up and double checking that we put on correctly and the technique when walking on ice. 

Melting glacier creating gaps

Walking on glacier was really an experience for me. How often you get a chance to do this?! And seeing our nature forms, the climate change resulting in the ice structure changes, I appreciate even more the impact of global warming.
Vatnajolull is the largest glacier in Iceland, and one of the largest in Europe, covering more the 8 percent of the country. Under the ice cap are several volcanoes and volcanic lakes. 
This was where the Game of Thrones was filmed! 

Fresh water from the glacier that is totally safe to drink. It's COLD. 

Can't remember what we did after that....
During dinner time, we went to Systrakaffi restaurant along our way to hotel. There's a tiny small supermarket if you need to stock up food, and also petrol. 
The food was surprisingly nice! 

Honeymoon - Iceland: Fjardrargljufur Canyon, Skaftafell

Today was more of an exercise day.... travelling to Skaftafell for some hiking! 
The journey continued further along the coastal, almost to our last leg of the coast.
On our way, we stopped by Fjardrargljufur canyon (abou 1 hr away from Vik).
This canyon is about 2km long, there's a few viewing points for you to see different sections of the canyon.  

We continued our journey for another hour to Skaftafell.

At Skaftafell, there's a few hiking trails you can choose to do. 
We had the rest of the day here so we took our time and slowly walked. 
There's a visitor centre, café, toilets here so don't worry about the facilities. 
In the end, we headed up to the glacier tongue.

The water here is so clear! 

We headed for Fosshotel Napur for our night's stay. 

Honeymoon - Iceland: Kerid, Stokkseyri, Gluggafoss, Solheimajokull glacier

Lots of driving today! We were heading down South and travelling close to the coastal, and we need to end at Vik! 

First stop, Kerid Crater. This is soooooo beautiful! Like a pendant!!! 

The view from the top

We walked one round at the top before going down. This is a totally different view versus other season. Winter it is a frozen crater, but it still looks pretty! 
It was really windy and cold.  

My hero :)

Next, we continued our journey to lunch at Stokkseyri. There is an amazing restaurant serving langoustine - Fjorubordid Restaurant. We had already made reservations just to be sure!
It's located near the shore of Stokkseyri's beach. 

That lobster soup was so good. The bread was surprisingly nice too! The sauce was quite special but I couldn't make out what was it.

Such a great lunch... This certainly taste great! 

We really had a great lunch, but the cost is not cheap btw. Anyways... YUMs!

Now for the long journey.... to Gluggafoss.

Next up was Seljalandsfoss which was about 20min drive away. At Seljalandsfoss, you can also visit Gljufrafoss waterfall which is about 400m further away. 
TIP: If you wanna visit Gljufrafoss, better wear waterproof pants/shirt/boots. You will get wet if you wanna go inside the waterfall.
This is one of my favourite waterfall because it's really beautiful, there was a rainbow at the entrance because the when there is huge volume of water flowing, and the mist remains, the sunlight will form the rainbow. 

Seljalandsfoss

This was the entrance.... We originally didn't go in because we didn't know we could go in. 
Then we saw someone who did and the boy decided to attempt to go although he was wearing sports shoe  that day instead of boots. 
I went in after he said it's ok to go. 
We spent some time drying ourselves though hahaha... but it was fun!

We hurried made our way to the last stop as we were slightly behind time. 
Our last stop was Solheimajokull glacier about 1 hour away.
It was super huge land of glacier, we walked abit to admire the nature and explore  the glacier until it was time to leave as we had to make our way to the hotel. 

We ended our day's journey at Vik for a night's day. Vik is quite a small town but it has it's own night beauty. At night, the whole place lits up and you can go to the top of the village and see the night view, I think it's really beautiful.