Mother & daughter in London - pt. 1

Stress! Chaos! Panic! That's how you can describe our Thursday morning. Because of some delays from the Belgian railservice (delays at 6:30 AM, can you imagine?), we almost missed the Eurostar to London. Luckily we were still allowed to check in so after 2 hours, we arrived in Europe's biggest metropolis. After approving our hotel room (at Imperial Hotel, near tubestation Russel Square) and drinking a cup of tea, my mom and I left for East London...

We took the tube to Bethnal Green and after some walking and thinking where we were (you couldn't say it was a beautiful neighbourhood) we discovered alternative, hip and cool (East) London: Shoreditch. The perfect place for streetstyle photographers; there were cool dressed people e v e r y w h e r e. And, more imortant: cool shops e v e r y w h e r e. We couldn't believe our luck when we discovered there were still sales going on. So yes: you could say our citytrip to London was rather a shoppingtrip.

 

Because we hardly had breakfast (one croissant and a fruitjuice in the Eurostar) we were starving by noon... On good luck we entered Full Stop. It seemed a nice place and... it sure was! Not only was the interior totally 'my style', the food was also very good. Altough Full Stop is known for its coffee, we were more into sandwiches and an organic juice. When you're in London, definitely go check it out!

Another nice place to visit: Brick Lane Book Shop. A shop with a very simple name, but with very divergent books. The range is so large I won't tell you what kind of books you can find here, but it's just worth a visit when you're in the neighbourhood!

166 Brick Lane, London, E1 6RU

info@bricklanebookshop.co.uk

www.bricklanebookshop.com

Behold: one of my favourite shops in London! Public Beware, it is. And no, I didn't left with empty hands... I bought (ehm, my mommy payed) a beautiful coat! It's not the one I'm wearing on the picture below (that's my mom's)... it's in the silver bag I'm wearing in my right hand, haha. As you can see: I shopped a lot (for a small price).

91 Brick Lane London E1 6QL

publicbeware@gmail.com

www.publicbeware.co.uk 

At 3 PM or something we entered a nice place where I forgot the name of (edit: my mom looked it up on internet and it's called 'Nude Espresso') and had a hot chocolate, a latte and a strawberry muffin. It was cold outside so we embraced the warmth of this nice coffeebar.

As my mommy loves to cook (especialy Asian food), Taj Stores was like heaven for her! It's an Indian store where you can buy everything what you need for Asian cooking. And you can buy it in very large packs. As I don't know a lot about cooking, I just captured to photogenic shop.

My mom thought it was funny that every streetname in Brick Lane was also written in Indian (or Bengali - I'm not an expert), so I took a picture of it. And so far this first part of Mother and daughter in London!