Chapter 277, Buckingham Palace
When it comes to Western food, steak or lamb chops are indispensable, especially restaurants that do not accept orders, and they have to work the fineness of the ingredients.
The steak that Ye Kai ate was not his favorite filet, it was sirloin with some fatty meat.
However, I don't care too much about this fat leaf now, and I can taste the unique taste brought by a little fat when I eat more things, and it is very fragrant and sweet when fried.
The jazz band was more than ten meters in front of Ye Kai, and he didn't quite understand why some male musicians liked to keep a flowing black hair, or a crooked nut deliberately dyed black.
I just think it's weird.
Other than that, Ye Kai is very satisfied with everything here.
Whether it's food, the scenery is chic, and the music is charming, what more could you ask for for a floating restaurant?
Probably the only thing to think about is to have a little more of this meal, and the stomach will not be full so quickly. Let the ship go a little slower, and the jazz orchestra will have a few more songs.
The orchestra's performance ended before Ye Kai finished this lunch.
However, with the beautiful scenery of revisiting, it is not boring, and looking at the same landscape architecture on different boats is a different side after all.
Ye Kai used a single-lens reflex to photograph a part of the restaurant, and as the glass stretched out, it was photographed on the riverbank.
This is to do a travelogue in the evening.
Travel still has to be adapted to local conditions, it is suitable for vlogging in island countries, it is suitable for live streaming when attending festivals or events, and now this kind of food and music are enjoyed.
Ye Kai felt that it was better to record it with a travelogue.
His writing has always been okay, and it seems to read as if everything Ye Kai saw that day is vivid, so many people in Ye Kai's Weibo are begging Ye Kai to update his travelogue more.
Coming out of the hotel in the morning, he walked alone for an unknown distance, and walked to the London Eye to take a boat ride on the River Thames.
I met David, who made a cruise ship out of car exhaust parts, and was supposed to disembark in London, but all the tourists chose to disembark at the floating restaurant for lunch.
It's quite emotional to think about this experience.
Ye Kai laughed stupidly twice, then quickly came back to his senses, looked around, and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that no one noticed him.
Those two giggles just now were so embarrassing.
The money for this meal was paid before, and now you don't have to pay the bill, but you have to wait until the ship docks to get out of the boat.
So Ye Kai still sat in his place, looking at the banks of the Thames through the window.
Half an hour later, the boat docked, some got on board and some disembarked.
Although the ship is a boat restaurant, it is actually also a pleasure boat.
At other times, there is no food for the tourists, but the shape of the boat and the clean glass add a lot of points to the boat, and even if you can't eat on it, someone will still be on the boat.
There are a variety of cruises on the River Thames, some of which are not a boat restaurant, but still serve lunch or dinner, and even afternoon tea.
However, that price is more expensive, so it is better to go ashore and find a restaurant on land after a few hours of sightseeing around the area.
Stepping on the plank, the glass boat swayed slightly, making the plank creak. The water below was also rushing so loudly that many young children did not dare to get off the boat.
Behind Ye Kai were Huaxia's couple.
Seeing that Ye Kai was about to walk away after getting off the boat, the man suddenly shouted: "Young man in front, can you stop for a while?"
Ye Kai stood still, looked back at them and asked, "Uncle, what's the matter with you?"
The husband and wife were about 50 years old, with white hair on their heads, and the women looked about the same age, but their hair was still jet black and shiny, as if they had just been permed.
"That's right, we want to go to Buckingham Palace, do you want to go with us?"
Buckingham Palace is not far from here, you can see it on a cruise ship before, it is estimated that it will take a few minutes to get to Buckingham Palace by car, but ...... However, Ye Kai was not ready to go here.
He wanted to start by visiting the museums and the National Gallery of the United Kingdom, which for him were more attractive than Buckingham Palace.
But it doesn't matter if you go where you're going tomorrow first.
So he agreed, saying, "Okay, I happen to be going to Buckingham Palace too, so let's go together?"
"Let's go together!" Auntie's smile on her face, "It's good together, it just so happens that our English is not very good, and we can't read English words......"
Oh!
Ye Kai somewhat understood.
The same road has gone a long way, and their English level Ye Kai has a general understanding, and Ye Kai sounds a little rusty and his words are not smooth, so he has to guess and listen.
But it's actually better than many recent college graduates say.
This is called Practical English.
My aunt doesn't speak English, so she only follows her husband to see the sights, and looks at the buildings that she could only see on TV before, from her heart to her expressions to her body movements, all of which reveal joy and joy.
Ye Kai missed his mother a little, and he didn't know if he was influenced by himself, and his parents also began to travel in China.
However, now Lao Ye has a career to do, and he can't leave for a long time, so the place to play has been near Rongcheng.
Among the couple, the uncle, who knows a little English, is an engineer in a steel company in the north, and the aunt is also in the same company and has just retired.
It still hurts a little to mention the meal I ate in the restaurant before.
About 500 yuan for a meal, Ye Kai thinks it's worth it, after all, there are cruise ships, and the beautiful scenery and music are all put on the table for you, and these ancillary facilities are all counted before the meal.
In some unique restaurants, you don't just order for the meal.
What you pay for is the style and service of this restaurant.
Ye Kai didn't pick up this stubble, found a taxi and took the three of them to Buckingham Palace, and before he got out of the car, he saw a bright color among the many tourists.
It was the royal guard dressed in red.
It is the most crowded place every morning, because there is a ceremony of changing the guard in the morning, which is very interesting.
In the words understood by the Chinese, when you come to London and don't come to see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, it's like going to Yanjing without seeing the raising of the national flag.
Their Changing of the Guard ceremony is the most intuitive way for everyone who comes to London to experience the etiquette of the British royal family.
This is why Ye Kai wants to come over tomorrow, because today's changing of the guard ceremony has passed, and now he can only see royal soldiers wearing red military uniforms and bearskin hats, patrolling near the palace.
There are quite a few people now.
There was a place in the square where there were many people around, and only one soldier standing straight could be seen in the middle, and groups of tourists were gathered outside.
The aunt wanted to know what was inside, so she pulled her husband and walked inside.
When he got here, Ye Kai was also ready to separate from them, but he was also curious about what was going on inside.
Before he could begin to walk forward, he heard a shout from the surrounded soldier, and everyone retreated as quickly as if by magic.
Ye Kai suddenly thought of the qigong master he saw on the Internet.
Secretly laughed twice.
The places around the soldier suddenly emptied, and Ye Kai realized that there was nothing inside, just a soldier in red clothes sitting on a tall horse.
Because he was surrounded by people and couldn't see the horse before, Ye Kai felt that he was standing very tall.
After all, the rocker is very straight, and it doesn't look like it's like a horse.
And the reason why everyone surrounded this soldier Ye Kai also knew, of course, because of the group photo.
Formerly the official residence of a duke, the palace has been the residence of the royal family since the Victorian era and is one of the few royal palaces still in use in modern times.
It looks magnificent from a distance, but as a royal building, Ye Kai feels that the Forbidden City is forever dripping.
Above the palace is the flag of the United Kingdom, which is the sign that the Queen of England is in the palace at the moment. However, Ye Kai didn't have a chance to meet such a big official.
Saying goodbye to the couple, Ye Kai went to buy a pass to Buckingham Palace.
Walking to the entrance of the queue with a ticket of 1:30, Ye Kai was stupid, he couldn't find where to line up at all.
Tail of the line?
So who told me where the tail of the team was first?
The crowds here are quite dense, perhaps because most of the tourists here come from all over the world, and the queue habits and looks are a bit good and bad, and it looks particularly messy.
Wouldn't it be two hours to wait until you walked into Buckingham Palace in such a queue?
Ye Kai took out his mobile phone a little helplessly, turned on the video to record the surrounding queues, and then pointed at himself and said: "That's why I don't like commercial attractions." ”
Send to Weibo, Moments.
looked at the people queuing up to enter again, Ye Kai still didn't find where the tail of the line was, so he found where the staff who were maintaining order on the side should line up.
She patiently pointed to a vacant location and said, "Where is it, I'll take you over to take it?"
Ye Kai handed the ticket to the girl, she looked at the time and said, "Your ticket ......"
"What's wrong?" he asked, for some reason.
She pointed to the time and said to Ye Kai: "You are a ticket at half a o'clock, and the people in line now are holding tickets at twelve o'clock, and it is estimated that you will have to wait for two hours before you start queuing." ”
“???”
Ye Kai raised his hand and looked at the time, it was now 1:18. That means I bought a ticket at half past one, and I have to go in at half past three?
"That's a pity. ”
Ye Kai rubbed his brows, and thought to himself that it would be a must-visit place for tourists in London, and he had expected that there would be a lot of people, but he really didn't expect it to be so difficult to enter.
The staff girl was a little embarrassed to return the ticket to Ye Kai.
She also had no way to let Ye Kai go in directly, she was just a staff member of the scenic spot, not serving the queen at Buckingham Palace, nor was she a guard who was always guarding the door.
But her gaze suddenly drifted over a screen at the edge of the square.
Ye Kai's face suddenly appeared on it, and this screen was playing a piece of news, which happened to be placed on the screen of Ye Kai's signing meeting yesterday.
"You're a writer?" she was a little surprised.
"There's a writer. ”
He also saw that screen, and felt a little proud in his heart, as a Chinese, he held such a successful signing meeting in the British pigeon square, which made him subconsciously stand up straight.
"That's great, celebrities have special channels, you come with me. ”
“......”