Chesca had a day off school today (target setting day) so we planned an expedition to London. Our first stop was to South Kensington where we bought a Red velvet cupcake from the Hummingbird Bakery and then proceeded towards the NHM chatting away in Spanish (we decided to be touristas for the day!). We then sat down in the gardens outside the museum and spent about 20 minutes taking pictures of our beloved cupcake before actually managing to eat it. Although it took us less time to consume this delicious delicasy of ours it was totally worth the wait!
Once inside the museum we headed towards to the Blue Whale via the mammals exhibit (this was, of course, after having spent sufficient time in the entrance hall taking pictures of the huge dinosaur!). It doesn't matter how much I've grown but the whale is still as large as I remember it - I'd love to visit the museum really early in the morning when theres no-one around...
We then had a look at the birds exhibit and I was especially drawn in by the hummingbirds and birds of paradise as I find their bright plummage so beautiful and delicate - as Chesca pointed out, its also easy to see where the fashion world gets it's inspiration from! Our day of amazing amazingness was then followed by a trip to the Earth's Treasures exhibit where they keep all the diamonds and precious stones including the collection above. I was wondering what it'd be like to just find the briefcase containing the collection on the tube or something....
When we felt a bit tired of the NHM we went across to the V&A where there was a short collection of art on the theme of surreal fairytale fantasy which included pieces like huge tulip vases made from stacked crockery - pretty good but some pieces were slightly disturbing. By now we were getting quite hungry so took the train quickly to Liverpool street viz High St. Ken. and found the Beigel Bakery Alice had shown me in Brick Lane. They had the best cream cheese and salmon bagel in the world! A quick 3 minute walk got us to Beyond retro which always feels like its your own secret gem hidden among the emptyness of Cheshire street. As I heard one guy comment, "this is dress-up heaven!". I love this shop with its strange assortment of mis-match clothes from different periods. However, I've always got to be careful when I buy stuff from there as its really easy to get something thats pretty average when you're there but very OTT in the real world. We finished our day off lazily walking back through Spitelfield's market and browsing the stores as they closed for the day. We were unlucky enough to hit the peak of rush-hour which was pretty rubbish as we didn't get to sit on the tube and rest our sore feet. It was so nice to finally get home and sit on the sofa. This day was so beautiful and inspired by www.theunicorndiaries.com which Chesca and I love for due to its dainty charm.
