London 2022

 

Wednesday I spent the day wandering London on my own. I got the train from Amersham to Marylebone and decided I wasn't going to get the tube at all and walk everywhere. I headed to Oxford Street to do some shopping on the hunt for the Nike shop. I did initially walk the wrong way but went to the other shops along that end of the stretch then walked back to where Nike is then went towards Chinatown to have some lunch.

Liberty London

I stopped off at this Japanese restaurant called Misato in Chinatown. I did want to get sushi but ended up getting a bento box as I was pretty hungry and needed something filling and this sounded nice.

I got the Sake Teriyaki Salmon Bento Box - Grilled salmon with teriyaki sauce, steamed rice, green salad, salted prawn, 2 pieces of maki, edamame beans, slice of orange, 2 pieces of seafood dumplings, chicken wing and miso soup - £13.80

It was really nice I ate it all! I liked the dressing they had on the salad. Don't know what it was but it was good.

This was a really bad idea getting an ice cream after eating all that food but I had to get a matcha ice cream. I was debating getting a bubble waffle but I was definitely too full for that so went for a Taiyaki Matcha Ice Cream from Bake - (a bakery) which I got last time when I was down in the summer. This was £4 the bubble waffle was £6. I also got a dan tart - Chinese egg custard tart - £1.60. Turns out this bakery is expensive as I walked into others and their tarts were only £1.20. I should have walked around more before getting this ice cream to let my food settle it was so good! After I walked to the Victoria and Albert Museum via Piccadilly Circus which was a trek but very much needed after all the food.

Piccadilly Circus

Passed Harrods on the way..

Victoria and Albert Museum

I got here and was sweating. It was so warm and I was wearing leather pants with my super warm coat as I went the West Ham match the night before so needed to wrap up and was packing light. I was sweating earlier on walking down Oxford Street and when I was trying clothes on when I went shopping it was a big of a task. I was even trying to look for clothes to get changed into but couldn't find anything I liked enough to buy. When I got to the museum I went to the toilet and when I came out I seen people sat charging their phones so I thought I'd take a breather and do the same but then I just cba and didn't want to move again! Didn't want to walk around the museum as I knew I had another trek to get back to Marylebone station as I was going for dinner back in Amersham with Kelly and Josh. I eventually got up and just did a quick circle downstairs near the entrance and took the long trek back...

Some interesting and weird sculptures but I have no idea what they're about as I didn't bother actually looking and got off after having a quick wonder and taking these photos.

Natural History Museum

My trek took my through Hyde Park

It started to rain as well but I'd walked most of it anyway so there was no point getting the tube at that point. I eventually made it back to Kelly's after over 25,000 steps. It was a long day a lot of walking and food consumed but that was just the start of it as we went for Italian for dinner.. which will be the next post!

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London 2021

 

Last post from my birthday weekend trip to London - August Bank Holiday. Mixture of photos from the Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday

On the Saturday when I met up with Holly at Euston Station we walked to our hotel which was in Holborn opposite Lincoln's Inn Fields to check in and had a walk around Lincoln's Inn which is Holly's Barristers Inn. (She's explained to me a million times but I still don't fully understand what it is other than it's a fancy club post club she's a member of)

Our hotel room was nice and was £40 each for the night.

Then we went on a walk towards Harrods via Oxford Street

Next theatre trip to London need to see Harry Potter and Cursed Child - tickets are even more like goldust.

There was a lion trail around London called Tusk Lion Trail which is to support African wildlife. It ran from 10th August - 24th September. You could download a map online and follow the trail around the city to find all different designed lions. The trail was actually worldwide in other cities around the world -  Bristol, Edinburgh, The Hamptons - USA, Wellington - New Zealand, Nairobi - Kenya and Sydney - Australia. The lions are going to auction in November to raise money to protect wildlife and the people that care for them in Africa.

We then walked to Buckingham Palace.

Then we went for dinner at Sticks n Sushi before seeing Hamilton.

Sunday

Sunday morning we walked to Covent Garden to have brunch at Avobar. It was dead as no where was open yet.

It was swamped with people when we were around later on. No way we could have got a photo by the tiger there was that many people. 

We then walked to Somerset House

Somerset House

Somerset House the building is amazing does actually look like a palace. There are galleries inside but it was weird as each room we walked into there was nothing there to see. You could just wander round some parts of the building. There was one exhibition that you had to pay to go in for that had people but the other ones there was no-one else around it was weird. We didn't know what was going on.

The Royal Court of Justice

You see this on TV when there's a big case going on and looks very very fancy!

After we went back to Covent Garden to do The Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition. I wanted cookies or some ice cream so ended up going Chinatown. I ended up going back to Bake the one that did the matcha soft serve in a bubble waffle cone but instead got a Taiyaki fish. The one I had in Toronto Canada was defo stale as this was nice and crunchy.

This was £4

Holly got a vegan ice cream from Udderlicious

And that was my weekend in London! It was tiring, sushi and ice cream filled. I was missing some sweet American waffles but I'll get my waffle fix soon. Hoping to visit London again before the end of the year but nothing planned or booked yet.

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