Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2015

London, Baby!

I recently came back from a week in London with my mum. We do this every year and it always is an amazing time-out and time to recharge your batteries and talk about our plans for the next "year" (yes, as a student and teacher to be my year still starts in September). Today I want to share some pictures with you.

How cool, Tower Bridge opened up for us :)

We discovered Temple District and enjoyed the calmness there. 

A cup of coffee, London's buses and a bit of people watching before going to the huge Paperchase at Tottenham Court Road. 

We spent some time at Tate Modern and visited the Sonia Delaunai exhibition. What a view, right?

At the Globe we watched "As You Like It" and mum and me were both a bit confused. What a strange story.

On our last day we spent some time around Little Venice and took a boat tour from there to Camden Lock via the Regent Canal. We love taking boat tours and I still cannot believe it that it took us this long to take it. 

Don't worry guys, I also spent some time in bookstores and bought some things:


The "Mr. Men in London" book is for my little godson Erik while all the others are mine. I love coloring books and this one is amazing. I also needed the little book by Terry Pratchett which is his speech talking about his Alzheimer's disease. I started the forword in the bus on the way to the hotel but stopped before I came to the crying part. 

I'm also so happy to finally have a Books Are My Bag bag and I adore the Waterstones bags and I think I get one every year (I have 3 now and love them all). 

After 11 years of going to London in the summer I experienced my first tube strike. It was a bit of an inconvenience since some buses didn't even stop because they were so full. In the morning we got up late and had a long breakfast but in the evening we had to wait quite a long time to get a bus back to the hotel. It was an experience but I really don't need to experience again.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

...in books

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If you didn't already know I was in London for 6 days at the beginning of August. I go once every year and usually I go crazy buying heaps of books. I couldn't control my book buying this year either and I figured that as you probably are a reader too I will share my haul with you today.

Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforder (which I was looking for for the last year)
You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (because Judith from Paper Riot raves about it)
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

Walk the Lines by Mark Mason
School's Out by Jack Sheffield
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

Look it is signed!

I love buying cook books in general and I decided to get this one by the Sorted guys. If you don't know them you should immediately head over to their homepage and YouTube channel. These guys are amazing!

This one is the third cook book by the Hummingbird Bakery crew and I already own the first two and can highly recommend them.