London Zoo, Camden
Covent Garden Market, Covent Garden
Miller & Carter -Newbury Park, Ilford
Peggy Porsche Cakes, Chelsea
Hamilton Hall, Liverpool Street Station
Another weekend well spent in London. This week I’ve been lucky enough to get to hang out in the Chelsea and Kensington areas. Which are absolutely gorgeous! If you’ve been on my Instagram page you can see the extravagant apartment buildings I pass everyday on my walk from the tube. I started caring for a little American girl who is in London with her dad for business for the next 2 months. I get to bring her all around the city to help her experience all London has to offer while she’s here. Which is the perfect match for me since Sam is back to work and I’m trying to get more acquainted with my new home. It’s basically like she is my mini friend that I get to hang out with every day. And she is a trooper that is up for pretty much anything.
So since fall is in full swing here in London and the weather has been simply amazing I’ve been taking advantage of everything I can do outdoors. On Thursday my mini friend and I headed to Camden to check out the London Zoo. BEWARE: that walk from Camden Town train station to the zoo was no joke with the little one. (It’s about a mile) But of course it was worth it because the zoo is a great day out. Currently they have the world’s biggest moth on display in the butterfly paradise tent. I mean this thing was actually the size of my head! The people who work at the zoo are so helpful because once they see you’re into something they come over and give you facts about the animals. One of the guys working in the butterfly tent told me and my mini friend how this moth only lives a week! Which at this rate I’m sure his time is up so RIP biggest moth in the world. A few of the other exhibits are the same in that you walk through these big plastic curtains and into an area where you have all these different wild animals walking, running, and even flying around. Although it really boggles my mind that more people don’t get hurt/ crazy people don’t put a lemur in their purse and walk off. (Especially because there are these really cute monkeys with mustaches that I really want to smuggle home to have as a pet!) Going to the zoo is a good time for kids and adults I think. Sam had brought me there one of the first times I came to visit and it was a really good date day activity.
https://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo
On Friday I continued to take full advantage of the weather and took a walk through Covent Gardens market with the little one in toe. The real treat was the fresh fall flowers that were covering every restaurant in the market, as well as some vibrant coloured dresses made from flowers. If you walk through the main section of big name stores like Danielle Wellington, Atelier, and The East India Company, you’ll find the row of these dresses made from exotic looking flowers. Now I’m not the biggest fan of flowers but when they’re made into something that beautiful, they’ve served a good purpose. I was even lucky enough to meet one of the creators of these beautiful dresses and he was nice enough to cut off a few of the big flowers in the display and give us one. On our walk around I even noted some of the stands in the market carried all candy from the US ♥️🇺🇸. It also has loads of stands for touristy purchases like the classic London keychains, sweatshirts and Harry Potter t-shirt.
https://www.coventgarden.london/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb
On Friday I continued to take full advantage of the weather and took a walk through Covent Gardens market with the little one in toe. The real treat was the fresh fall flowers that were covering every restaurant in the market, as well as some vibrant coloured dresses made from flowers. If you walk through the main section of big name stores like Danielle Wellington, Atelier, and The East India Company, you’ll find the row of these dresses made from exotic looking flowers. Now I’m not the biggest fan of flowers but when they’re made into something that beautiful, they’ve served a good purpose. I was even lucky enough to meet one of the creators of these beautiful dresses and he was nice enough to cut off a few of the big flowers in the display and give us one. On our walk around I even noted some of the stands in the market carried all candy from the US ♥️🇺🇸. It also has loads of stands for touristy purchases like the classic London keychains, sweatshirts and Harry Potter t-shirt.
https://www.coventgarden.london/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb
Later that night I got to celebrate the hub’s big 3-0 birthday at one of his favorite steak joints Miller & Carter in Newberry Park, locally known as The Dick Turpin. That’s out in Essex if you ever venture beyond the city borders. I ordered far too much for sides because the table was completely covered. But really 🤤 just thinking about all that delicious food we had makes my mouth water.
And finally to round out the fun weekend I had, yesterday I ventured with my mother-in-law Pat to Peggy Porches Cake shop in Chelsea for some afternoon tea. The weather was unfortunately not that wonderful as it rained ALL day, but we figured the cakes would be worth the wait (all 70 minutes of it). And they really were! So if you plan on going here on the weekend don’t make the rookie mistake that we did and make sure it’s an early tea sesh (before 1) or after 5, as we waited in what I like to call the eye of the storm. The staff there really are the sweetest (pun intended) as they served us hot beverages, gave out blankets, and even umbrellas to all the people waiting. Just the exterior of the cake shop is worth the visit, as it’s seasonally decorated archway is an insta worthy pic. I mean literally every person who passed by the pink building took a quick picture in the doorway. There was even a professional shoot going on for a while. I have to say although our wait wasn’t the most pleasant of times because of the rain it really was worth it. The cupcakes were UNREAL in look and taste. And guess what flavor they had?! Yep that’s right, PUMPKIN!!! They get it 🧡🎃. And now that we’ve been there once and had the experience of eating inside, I’m now smarter for it. Next time I will definitely be just stopping in to grab some treats to go at the counter and eating them in the comfort of my own home (or really on the train ride because it would be hard to wait that long).
Since I live on the honesty train, After having 2 cupcakes and some macaroons we left the cake shop feeling wellllll hungry for some dinner. Because to be fair we skipped right over lunch and dinner straight into dessert at the shop. But Pat and I were really in favor of a savory meal. Since it was getting late we decided to stop for a bite at one of our usual spots in Liverpool street station, Hamilton Hall. This place is always heaving at any time of day since it’s conveniently located just above the TFL platforms. Which is why it’s usually on my list of places to stop for 1 last drink or a quick bite to eat. Yesterday was no exception as most of the people in Hamilton Hall were dressed up in German beer fest attire most likely ending the night with one last pint. And as for me and Pat sitting there with our cheeseburgers and Prosecco had us feeling like this was the perfect end to a perfect day.
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