Day five: Vivienne Westwood, the Wallace Collection, and my School!

 

So we began our day with plans to have breakfast in Soho. On our way, I saw these buildings and thought they looked pretty awesome.

 

LIBERTY!

 

A street, how neat.

 

 

This was across the street from the restaurant. Cool, eh?

 

And this is where we ate, The Breakfast Club! We were so hungry that we didn't take any pictures, but the food was really good.

 

Then we went to the Carnaby Street Walking Mall and found this ADORABLE shoe/accessory shop! The designs were extremely out there but ridiculously adorable.

 

AND apparently there was a contest and someone from London College of Fashion got their design made and sold there!

 

A cool wall.

 

 

And then we went to the Vivienne Westwood flagship store! It was really cute.

 

Aww yeah, Vivienne Westwood.

 

Then we made our way to the Wallace Collection, and on our way we saw this in front of a Lacoste store! I thought it was hilarious.

 

The wonderous Wallace Collection!

 

The entrance hall! OOOH, AHH~

 

A really beautiful ceiling/chandelier combo.

 

The rooms were set up so nicely.

 

SPOOKY OLD CHAIR~~

 

A cool fireplace.

 

Some horse and human armor!

 

A gothic crown, apparently.

 

Beauuutiful!

 

TALLY HO!

 

A doggy!

 

A spooooky bust!

 

Our faces behind vases!

 

The Emerald City?

 

Gorgeous metal work!

 

And what I came for--Madame du Pompadour by Francois Boucher!

 

And The Swing by Jean Honore Fragonard! They were both so gorgeous in person!

 

And the room they reside in! I thought that the Boucher painting was much bigger than it actually was, but it was just as gorgeous as I thought it would be!

 

THAT DETAIL.

 

So beautiful!!

 

A really cute set up they had with some very sweet portraits.

 

Then we headed out in search of Shepherd's Market and food.

 

 And while there were some beautiful buildings, there weren't any good places to eat in our price range, sadly.

 

So we ended up going back to the hotel room and going to Garfunkel's again. I got a strawberry milkshake and a burger with "chunky chips" (french fries). Yummm!

 

Then we went to search for the campus I will be at for the next three years. It's pretty far away from central London, and the area around it isn't very nice, but the actual building is really beautiful and old! And unfortunately we couldn't get in without an ID, but it was worth it to see where it was and what it looked like and all that.

 

And this is immediately next door, which I thought was really cool! Ahh, I love old architecture!

 

We've been wanting ice cream all week, so after our long journey to my school, we went back to Covent Garden to get what we heard was amazing ice cream/gelato from Scoop. IT WAS DELICIOUS. Nicole got strawberry and vanilla and I got green tea and raspberry (which I ate separately--they both just happened to be delicious so I got them both).

So we have actually completed our list of things we wanted to do for the most part! Tomorrow is our Harry Potter Walking Tour (super excited!), and we're going to do some more shopping of course, but otherwise I'm pretty satisfied with what we've done!! Stay tuned for tomorrow's ~*~MAGICAL~*~ update!

Day four: King's Cross Station, Abbey Road, and Spitalfields Market!

 

So we began today with another trip to My Old Dutch Pancake House, but we got there a half hour before it opened so we sat down at a bus stop and saw this! An internet booth, apparently?!

 

This is for you, Sandra!

 

So once they opened, I decided to order mango juice, which was delicious.

 

And I got a peaches and ice cream pancake!! It was AMAZING!

 

This was taken near the Holborn Station. Such beautiful buildings!

 

After our wonderful breakfast, we went to King's Cross Station!

 

PLATFORM 9 3/4!! (ignore the fact that part of the 4 is gone...)

Also ignore the fact that the brick wall is fake. Due to construction, they had to move the partial cart outside of the station, haha! Everyone we went up to with the intention of asking where this was guessed what we were looking for before we even said anything. It was really funny.

 

Nicole is going to Hogwarts!

 

BENCH OF BAKER STREET! Maybe Basil of Baker Street sat here at some point?

 

And then we made our way to Abbey Road!! 

 

Cool graffiti outside of Abbey Road Studios.

 

This was pretty cool except we couldn't find ourselves! We were there today around 12:56PM, if anyone wants to check! Haha! 

 

Then we met two really nice American girls, one was from Brooklyn and the other was from NJ (born in Freehold, small world!). They asked us to take their picture, and we asked them to take ours, and it worked out very nicely since we needed them for another picture...

 

Haha! This was the best angle we could get without being in the middle of traffic, and it took quite a while for all the traffic to pass! So this is our version of that famous photo!

 

Abbey Road!

 

The tube station! I thought it looked really cool; I loved the clock.

 

Then we headed over to Covent Garden, which wasn't quite what I was hoping (I thought there would be more food shops and less clothing stores), but it was interesting and there were some nice buildings! And another couple ended up in one of my pictures, but they were really cute, haha.

 

Then we got bored of that so we headed to Spitalfields Market, which we had gone to on the Jack the Ripper Walking Tour. However, we couldn't figure out how to get there, so we had to follow the path we took with the tour! We followed Jack the Ripper's murders!! SPOOKY! But anyway, this was a really cool part of a really creepy little tunnel.

 

A neat alley.

 

Then my shoes were bothering me so I was putting on a band-aid, and I guess Nicole thought this was a Kodak moment.

 

I was appalled.

 

In Spitalfields Market, we both found some really cute stuff and I got two dresses and a belt and Nicole got a dress (for a good price, too)! By the time we finished shopping, it was dinner time, so we went to Giraffe!

 

A pretty cool place.

 

Oh yeah, earlier in the day I FINALLY found a cute sweater! It was only £5! Anyway, I got Chicken Kiev (for the first time) and Nicole got baby back ribs! They were both delicious.

 

Then I got Nicole to take a picture of my outfit for the day! Sporting my new sweatshirt and tee!

 

Then we somehow missed the tube station we were looking for and ended up taking a double decker bus for the first time. It was so cool!

 

Our view.

 

Our first time on a double decker bus in London! Oh my!

So our fourth day in London was very successful! We aren't sure what we're doing tomorrow, but we have some time to figure it out. Until tomorrow!