London part 1: Sun is in the sky, oh why would I wanna be anywhere else

Me and one of my sisters took a trip to lovely London this past week.

We arrived in the city center on Monday morning after quite a quick flight and train ride. We both have been to London before so except for a few classics we decided to skip the sight seeing and move on to our main goal: shopping.

With the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge on our route we went to Butlers Wharf where we had, loyal to the classics, fish & chips for lunch at Browns.

After lunch it was a good time to check in to our hotel, drop off the luggage and actually start shopping. Because there wasn't enough time left that day to start on shopping heaven, Oxford street, we went to another classic: Harrods.

On our way out we discovered that the South Kensington location of my favorite bakery, Humming Bakery, was actually very close to the location of our hotel. Naturally I had to make a little detour and visit.

We had a strawberry milkshake cupcake and drinks outside the bakery before moving on and it really did taste like strawberry milkshake, so good. The bakery itself looked absolutely adorable too so if I would fail at finding another job, I'm going to fly over there and happily work in this stylish pink bakery.

Harrods itself is a place you can walk around for hours before you've seen everything; high end designer bags, make-up and perfume, fashion, food, gifts, toys and even an animal kingdom on the top floor with chiuaua's but there's more to see on Brompton Road.
So after finishing Harrods we also went to the biggest Topshop of London, Harvey Nichols and French Connection before going to dinner.

We did make quite a few miles walking around all day so we went looking for a nice restaurant near our hotel and found Wild Wood. Because the fish & chips where actually a pretty big meal for lunch, we each chose a salad.

Since I recently bought a new camera, one with a specific option for food pictures, I had planned to make pictures of everything we would eat during our time in London, unfortunately I forgot to make one of our desert at Wild Wood: a white chocolate cheesecake with raspberry coulis. Delicious!

By the time we left the restaurant we were both exhausted, we got up at 6 to catch our plane and walked around all day, so we called it a day and went back to our hotel to make plans for the next day and get some rest.

More London in the next post!

Love and cupcakes,
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