Last night, on a quest to do something other than hanging out at the usual haunts, my friend and I went for a walk south of the river. South London, you see, is somewhat of a taboo for a North Londoner. It's not as cool, as fun, as nice or as pretty as North London, or so everyone likes to believe. But I'm sick of always going to the same old places - every time I meet up with people we ask "where should we go?" and the reply is "hmmm... Starbucks? Cinema? Shopping?". Starbucks at least gives you a variety of locations (wahey!), as does cinema, but I always seem to end up going to the same 4 or 5 places.
We went for dinner first (itsu - I LOVE that place. Look at this yummy menu), and then to this place called Snog which sells frozen yoghurt. The shop is so nicely decorated:
It has fake grass floors and toadstool seats!
We took pictures all along the south side of the river - we walked from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge, of Fergie fame. (She got it wrong - you know the song London Bridge? 'How come every time you come around, my London London Bridge be going down...'? Ah, how it amused Londoners when she confused Tower Bridge (the one that can actually 'go down') and London Bridge (bog standard bridge). By the time we got to Tower Bridge it was about 11.30pm, and some parts were a bit dodgy to walk through, but it was exhilarating! I'm sure I wouldn't say that if anything HAD actually happened, of course, but I've always felt fairly safe. Some parts, like Southwark where there's an old Victorian jail, felt so olde worlde and exciting.
I loved my outfit too:
The pink H&M cardigan came out again!
Brogues - a random shop in Camden Market; white lace skirt- H&M; grey crop top - American Apparel; necklace - from my auntie; teal bag - Lambertson Truex.
We were snapping away like tourists the whole time:
How moody do the Houses of Parliament look in black and white?!
What cool places are there to go where you live?
4 comments:
we care, i promise! i felt the same way when i started my blog. but now i love it, and it started taking off just this week, which is thrilling. i love your blog and even gave it an award yesterday (http://baleenplates.blogspot.com/2009/07/win-win.html)
these pictures are stunning. i want to go downtown sometime and take some pictures (we live in a really commercialized area, so it's not great for picture-taking).
xoxo
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate both the comment AND the lovely award, thanks :)
I go up and down - as soon as someone comments I feel happy again, haha.
Congratulations on your blog taking off :)
ooh i love the shot in front of the graffiti! so cool. its fun to be a tourist in your own city!
philly is nice, there's old city which has lots of vintagey shops and boutiques and there's rittenhouse square which has a park which si so nice and lots of cool people hang out there and smoke and there's lots of good upscale restaurants and the anthropology and zara so thats nice too.
Thanks HK! I know, I love that picture too :)
They featured that place (it's a skatepark, COVERED in graffiti) on Britain's Next Top Model.
I've never been to Philadelphia. Not even close. Vintagey shops and boutiques sounds right up my street though. ;)
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