At the beginning of July, I went to London with my boyfriend for three days so I thought I'd share what we got up to plus a few pictures. When we got there, we got the Tube to Hyde Park, sat and had some lunch and had a good dose of people watching. It was such a nice day (in fact all three days were, we were very lucky), and I could have stayed sat there much longer watching the world go by.
We eventually moved and headed to our hotel to check in. We stayed in Kensington at the Regency. We've stayed there before a few years ago and really liked the location, and they'd recently had a bit of a refurb so we thought we'd give it another go. I LOVE staying in Kensington. It feels so much quieter and calmer than the more touristy parts of London, and the houses are so pretty!
After we'd dumped our stuff and freshened up a bit, we went for a wander to Harrods. We had a look at the extortionate puppies on sale (a must), and browsed the toy section where we found this little big fellow. Yours for a cool £3,000!
After this we wandered around a bit more and then went to Wahaca for some food. I'd been wanting to try this for a while because I'm a big lover of Mexican food and the menu looked pretty promising. I was SO impressed! The food was so good and the service was really quick and friendly. I had a chicken burrito and a virgin mojito (hey, that rhymes!), and me and my boyfriend shared some nachos with THE NICEST GUACAMOLE EVER! I'll definitely be going there again when I'm next in London.
The next day we had a bit of a naughty lie in and then headed out to get breakfast at the Breakfast Club in Soho. Again, I'd heard good things about this so I wanted to give it a go. After queuing for about half an hour we finally got in. I loved the look and feel of this place. It had lots of photos and notes that people had pinned to the wall, and generally a "well-loved", worn kinda feel to the whole place. I ordered pancakes and berries and my boyfriend went for the All American. Personally, I find the idea of bacon and maple syrup gross so his didn't look too appealing to me. Mine was really yummy but the portions were so big! Those four pancakes defeated me. Needless to say, we didn't need to eat again for quiiite some time afterwards.
Next we hit the shops for a few hours, gradually retiring to Covent Garden because sometimes Oxford Street is just too much. I find Oxford Street Topshop both amazing and overwhelming at the same time, although I usually come away from there with nothing because there's just TOO MUCH (and I feel bad making my boyfriend wait for me to look at everything). Covent Garden was also heaving but I like the atmosphere there a lot more than Oxford Street. Later on in the day, we decided that we wanted to see a show that evening, so we scouted around the ticket booths in Leicester Square and eventually decided on Rock of Ages. We're both a big fan of the movie so thought this would be good fun, and it was a reasonable price. We had pretty good seats with nobody sat in the seats in front of us (a bonus for the vertically challenged like me), and it was really good fun! I'd recommend it to people who love the movie, or who aren't opposed to a bit of 80's cheese.
The next day, we dropped our suitcase off at Kings Cross and headed into Chelsea for a wander round. I found a cute shop called Brandy Melville which stocked really nice clothes all in "one size fits most". I bought a cute tank top with an embroidered elephant on the front and a really nice cropped khaki jacket. After a bit more wandering and making shocked faces at the rent prices, I was then dragged around several music shops *groan*. Fair game though for all my clothes shopping!
We went for some food at Hard Rock Café before having to make a dash back to the station to collect our suitcase and catch our train home. Couldn't believe how quickly the three days went, and we still didn't do everything we wanted to. I will go on the London Eye one day! It was quite nice to just wander around at our own pace and not feel like we had to do this or that at a certain time - we just did our own thing. Looking forward to the next trip already.
What's your favourite thing about London?
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