Last week I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days in London. As you all know I adore London and am up there at every opportunity I get.
Woo Hoo it's off to London I go!
Me and Helen spent the first day in a nice relaxed manner wandering down to Westminster -
How 'London' is this photo?
We then headed over to St James' Park which is always brilliant for taking photos as there's so much wildlife, beautiful flowers and stunning architecture surrounding it.
Believe it or not this former duck house is used as offices, how lovely would it be to work in here?
After the park we decided it was only sensible to spot for a spot of tea and cake -
Beware gratuitous Red Velvet cake photo!
Suitably refreshed we checked into our hotel. We stayed at Northumberland House which was right on the edge of Trafalgar Square. It's used by the London School Of Economics most of the year as dorm rooms and rented out as a hotel out of term. It was in a beautiful Jacobean building.
Yes I made poor Helen do the "Outside the hotel" pose
Since we were so close to Trafalgar Square we decided it was only right to be cultural and visit the National Gallery before it closed. I never fail to be bowled over by how bright and vivid the colours are on paintings that are several centuries old, let's be honest I could spend all day in the gallery wandering around with my mouth open - attractive I know!
Yep I've been playing with Picasa again
Early evening in Trafalgar Square
We weren't sure about the blue chicken on the 4th plinth either, still it was most certainly a conversation starter!
After all the, er, culture we had built up quite an appetite and headed to the Wagamama conveniently situated behind the gallery (Anyone would've thought it had been built just for us)
To work off all the yummy food we took a walk up to Regent Street, I love that you can still go shopping at 8pm in London, it makes it more of an adventure somehow .......... or maybe I need to get out more.
Tourists on the loose!
Yes we were still talking about the bloomin chicken!
The Theatre Royal
Piccadilly Circus
Regent Street
You may have guessed I love taking photos of cities at night, here are a few highlights!
Liberty
I wish I'd been here in it's 60s heyday
Yes I fully approve of Irregular Choice's window!
The Theatre Royal from another angle
Our walk was paused with the traditional foray into M&M World -
Helen makes a new friend
Ok I admit I was on a noodle & sugar high!
We stopped to snap a last few photos of Trafalgar Square before heading back to the hotel
Nelson, The Moon, The London Eye & a Blue Chicken, not items you'd normally put together!
We were up bright and early the next day to pick up a few essentials ...... yes we went to Waterstones but can you blame us when it was in a building as pretty as this?
Then it was onto the main event of the day, meeting lots of other bunny mad Twitter friends!
Maddie & Yvonne
Debbie
Tiffany & Jordan
My two bestest friends Kay & Helen!
Me & Helen
We decided to vist theWallace Collection I'll let the photos speak for themselves ....
Yes we even found a bunny!
It's funny how arts and culture can make you hungry so we headed to a Wetherspoons in Tottenham Court Road that turned out to be the the site of the Marquee Club . I was obviously excited to be standing on music history!
I did warn you I was over excited!
The walls were also covered with loads of cool memorabilia from the legends that played there
We're in the Marquee Club!
After the pub we all sadly had to go our separate ways (for me and Helen this meant a long train ride back to Eastbourne sat next to two guys I feel it would have been perfectly legal to murder!) thank you to you all for making it such a fun day and special thank you as always to Helen for being the perfect Citybreak friend!
Love Jen
XxxxX
Ps here's a few top tips -
1. If you're travelling to and from London by train using Southern and are staying overnight then buy 2 day travel cards 1 for the day you travel up and the other to return on. This'll save you about £30 on an overnight return ticket!
2. The duck dumplings in Wagamana 'nuff said
3. The Wallace Collection is a lovely museum, it's just behind Selfridges but does get as much of the hustle and bustle that more well known museums do. It's got beautiful paintings, an armory for the boys in the group and best of all it's free!
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