As an anniversary present, I thought I would book some train tickets for Matthew and I to have a day out in London! After having such a lovely day, it's clear that we should definitely do this much more often, as it only took us just over an hour on the train and it's true, you could never be bored in London! With so much to see and so much to do, we tried not to cram too much in and allow time to just relax and explore together! However, we did make about a thousand "we should definitely come back here and do this" mental notes!
Yay! We mastered the London Underground and managed to make it to our first stop... Covent Garden! About 30 seconds after leaving the tube station, our eyes met a gorgeous little shop called Sass& Belle. It was filled with so many beautiful ornaments, signs and other home furnishings (right up my street!) so I had a wander around inside- safe to say, I wish Matthew had brought a bigger backpack as I could have bought the entire shop!
Now for one of the main reasons we came to Covent Garden... to visit Shake Shack! We've always thought that America was home to all Shake Shack restaurants, but when I found there was one here I thought it was a must for us to go! I think it actually deserves its very own blog post- yup... that good!
Matthew found it funny to keep doing stereotypical poses in front of every picture he could manage hahaha!
We probably could have spent all day in Covent Garden, but that would have meant we'd be spending our entire bank accounts there too haha! It was such a nice place to enjoy both the designer shops with the likes of Dior, Chanel and a HUGE Apple store... and some cute, quirky stores that sell really different bits and pieces. The restaurants there all look pretty amazing too... if we could have managed to eat 4 lunches, we would have!
Next, we visited Camden town and market. Going there on a Saturday probably wasn't the best of choices for us as it was a lot busier than we expected- as in 'can't really move' kind of busy! However, the atmosphere was really cool with the sounds of bongos playing and the smell of some yummy food being sold around every corner of the market! We went to Cyberdog (entire shop that glows in the dark with loads of loud music playing) and had a browse around the stalls, before taking the tube over to China Town for our dinner!
China Town looked so beautiful at night with hundreds of pretty lanterns lighting up the street tops! We went to a few of the bakeries and stocked up on Chinese Egg Tarts (if you haven't tried some... definitely do so... DELICIOUS) and a few other nibbles before going out for dinner to a restaurant we'd visited the year before with Matthew's family. It's clear to see here that Matthew really did go to town when ordering our food haha... it was so nice!
After such a memorable day, we rushed (yup, ended up running for the tube haha) to catch our train. I absolutely loved all the places we visited that day, and we came back with some cool purchases too! We actually took more videos than photographs as London is just so 'buzzing' that it's difficult to capture in a still photo! There are so many other things we'd love to do there, and now we've cracked the code to using the tube system properly (use the map haha) I can't wait to go back and explore again (and again, and again)!
*WARNING: online display of affection (mushy words alert!)* I hope Matthew knows just how much I LOVE doing exciting things together, me and him. He always makes every day perfect, wherever we go, whatever we do :) Our adventures are my favourite things in the world- big or small... i'll treasure them, always :)
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