Saturday Chelsea and I retraced our steps from the walking tour we had a few weeks back. We found Twinings Tea again, which of course was not open! But we'll go back another day to check it out. The store is the original home of the Twinings Tea company, located on The Strand not too far from our flat (first picture). We also connected a lot of other dots which was good, got to know our way around some other neighborhoods. The second picture is where cabbies were allowed to take breaks back in the day. They are still used today. Cabbies buy coffee and snacks inside. The general public is even allowed to purchase from them now as long as they can catch one that is opened. We sat in a nice park across the street from the Thames and had some ice cream. We finally saw some trees with a little color change! There's not many trees here and the ones you do see go from green to brown; there's no red or orange anywhere! We've been pretty lucky with the weather so far, its been fairly mild so it was nice to sit in the park.
Sunday morning we went to Abigail's, a deli around the corner from our flat. We saw that it had free WiFi when we walked by the night before so we decided to eat breakfast in there while we figured out the rest of our trip. We stayed there for breakfast and lunch and were able to book the rest of the hotels for Belgium.
We brought our stuff back to the flat then took the tube to Warcick Street in a section of London called Little Venice for a walking tour at 2 PM. It was soooooo pretty there (its located on the west side of London). There is A LOT of money in that section. Our guide pointed houses out where Paul McCartney, Angelica Houston, and the Lord of the Dance have lived. There were some really nice cars too. Most of the homes and flats go for millions of pounds. The architecture was mostly really pretty too. The canals had a lot of house boats which were cool to see. The tour was around 2 hours. Afterwards we had a late lunch/early dinner at a bar/restaurant right on the canal. It was really nice, we ate on the terrace. We both had hot apple cider, which was basically cider beer warmed up. It was good though. I had a grilled chicken burger too, with chips and salad.
Monday night Eya, Chelsea and I went out to dinner at this Italian restaurant by school that has a live piano player every night. The music was really good and I had really good pizza too :) Tuesday at work I labeled the retail mail out envelopes. Then I started finishing up the summer sketchbook so Rachel could send both of them to a customer by the end of the week. I was able to show John and Michael my branding and window brief finally!!!! They liked a lot of the ideas which was awesome!!! Michael liked the neon lights idea but wasn't sure it went with the brand's eco-ness, which I understand. Customers may not like the idea of an eco-friendly company using electricity like that, etc. They like the idea of something illuminated, because that's the only way people will see it at night, but they want something less obvious than a neon light. John gave me some information from a company they had contacted a few years back that I'm going to look into. The company specializes in films that cover glass (for privacy, advertisements, etc.). The Academy buses that you see completely wrapped in an advertisement, that is probably this company, that's what they specialize in. They want to go ahead with some of my ideas so now I have to get quotes from a few companies and start making some purchases for the store!!!! So its really good, I think it was received really well. Tuesday night Chelsea and I packed for our trip!!!! We're leaving Wednesday night, right after work.
Wednesday I worked on more ideas for the store. The creative director Tara is supposed to come into the office on Friday so John wants to be able to show her what I've been doing which is good because I want her to see it but its bad because I can't come in!!!!! Hopefully I'll get to meet and talk to her another time though. I left work a little bit early to meet Chelsea at St. Pancras Station so we could hop on the train to Brussels!!!!!
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