Thursday I went up to the Bank tube station to look at the store windows in that area. We had passed it on a bus the night before and I saw a Louie Vuitton and Gucci store. The area was really nice. Then I took the tube up to Oxford Street to meet Chelsea at Liberty. Liberty, of course, looked amazing on the inside too! The ceiling in the gift room and the jewelry and handbag room was covered with metallic gift bows, COVERED. It looked so pretty.
Then we headed to Bond Street because at 6PM the city was lighting the Christmas lights. Before we even got to Bond Street we saw snow! There was all this stuff flying through the air and we were like SNOW!!!! When we got to Bond Street there was soooooo much snow!!! When we got closer to all of it we realized it was soap! We walked down all of Bond Street. We saw reindeer and all of the stores decorated. As we walked down the lights overhead lit up one at a time, starting at the Old Bond Street end and ending at the New Bond Street side at Oxford Street; it was so pretty, the snow made it amazing.
We were pretty hungry by the time we finished so we walked toward Piccadilly Circus and wandered through some streets until we found a place that looked good. It was called the Bistro. It was Turkish and Mediterranean cuisine and they had really good fixed menu prices. The food was really good! We met up with Bridget in Soho after dinner and had coffee and dessert at Bar Italia on Frith Street. Chelsea was on a walking tour and was told that Bar Italia had the best coffee in London. The coffee was really good and so were the desserts! I had a cannoli, sooooooooo good!!!
Friday Chelsea and I went to Twining Tea Co. and to Covent Garden. Then I met up with Harry at the Knightsbridge tube station. We went to Harrod’s and Harvey Nichol’s to check out the windows. Harrod’s windows were themed to The Wizard of Oz and Harrod’s lit up like Emerald City at night! It was soooooooooooo pretty. The windows at Harvey Nichol’s were really awesome, very imaginative. I went home afterwards and waited with Chelsea and Bridget to hear from Christine and her friend. They were at the movies and we were meeting up with them for dinner and to go out afterwards. Christine’s friend is a vegetarian so we ate at a vegetarian/vegan restaurant called Mildred’s by Oxford Circus. The food was DELICIOUS! I had pumpkin and ricotta raviolis and sweet potato fries with sour cream and a glass of vegetarian pinot noir, naturally (whatever vegetarian wine means). We all shared white chocolate and pistachio cheesecake for dessert. I definitely want to go back there; there was so much on the menu that I wanted to try.
From dinner we took the tube to Covent Gardens. We took them to Los Locos, which is where Eya, Chelsea and I ended up last week. It wasn’t as crowded but the music was just as good! After a while there we went to the Verve (another bar we went to the week before), which was packed! We left around 3AM.
The next morning, Bridget, Chelsea and I headed to Borough Market, a large ALL FOOD market by the London Bridge. It was, in a word, SPECTACULAR. EVERYTHING looked soooooooooooooo good. There was cheese and bread and pastries and olives and more cheese; tons of fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh juices and smoothies. Anything you could want was there. To start, I had a chocolate muffin, which was actually a regular muffin base with chocolate chips and chocolate crumble on top. So yummy! I got a latte too. Then Bridget found this amazing cheese vendor-they were cooking up cheesy potatoes and grilled cheese!!!!! The smell was outrageous we had to try it! Chelsea had the cheesy potatoes, which were served boiled with melted cheese (I think the wheel was cheddar) and a side of gherkins. Bridget and I got the grilled cheese, which was served on dense whole wheat bread with a mix of cheddar and gruyere swiss cheeses and garnished with a white and red onion mixture, then grilled to absolute perfection. It was the best grilled cheese I have ever had!!!!!!!! Afterwards I grabbed some toffee and dark chocolate covered caramels for later on.
We walked to St. Paul’s from the market to hop on the tube. We were headed for Portobello Market in Knotting Hill. A lot of the tube stations are closed for engineering work on the weekends, so we had to get off before the Knotting Hill station stop and hop on a bus to go the rest of the way. Once we got there we walked quickly through the antique and food section until we hit the new goods/fashion area. We had already been to this market so we knew what we were looking for which was good because it had started to rain. We took the bus back to Oxford and took the tube the rest of the way home. We all just relaxed the rest of the night.
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