Mothering Sunday wanderings

As a big thank you for helping us for our wedding and in perfect time with Mothers day last weekend I organised a couple of surprises for my Mum.  We have both wanted to go and see Jersey Boys in London for ages now and so I finally got us some tickets.  On a whim we booked a cheap hotel to be the hub of our adventures and it was pretty good with nice views of some surrounding mews.  

If I had to live in a city, this would be my dream location!

We started off the weekend with some window shopping around the swanky department stores.  We had never been to Liberty before so I became a bit of a tourist and took lots of pictures.  We chose the flower shop entrance to the store, I love flower shops at this time of the year and especially so this weekend with Mothers day right around the corner.

 

After Liberty we visited the Mary Portas department in House of Fraser and yep we both bought a pair of the Kinky Knickers (no photo sorry...) though the way that people were going mad for them in Liberty we wonder whether we should leave them in the box...

Our last store was selfridges where I darted straight for the stationary section and cooed over all the amazing paper products then the food hall.

That night we went to see the show and it was just amazing, I had never realised how many songs I knew!

We spent the next day really exploring London a bit more.  We figured out the cycle hire system and cycled around Little Venice where we had a nice coffee at a boat cafe and found a lovely garden centre to have a wander around.  The cycling didn't stop there, we enjoyed it so much we then went cycling right around Hyde Park.

My last treat was to take Mum for a Mothers day special afternoon tea at Bake-a-Boo.  It was so nice there, it's like entering a living room and the smell of baking was amazing!

Geffrye Museum

As the train pulled into Hoxton on a recent visit to London we noticed a big period building with people walking through and so by the power of Google Maps I had a look and saw it was a museum.  The museum goes by the name of Geffrye and as it says on the website it depicts the quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms.  

As I've said before I'm not really into museums I get very bored easily, what keeps me going is the architecture to admire.  As I'm a big fan of home interiors, this museum totally did it for me as it was basically a building full of rooms set up as they would have been over different periods through the last 100 years.  

If anyone is in the area over the summer I'm sure it's even better than when we went as the garden will be open and the tea room is a huge sun trap.

Capital adventure

Another day another roll of film used.  We hadn't been to London in a month and were a bit tired of walking around the countryside so hopped on the train last Saturday.

We started off with a wander around Borough and Jubilee Market.  It was so much busier than the last time we went but was great all the same.  We're currently doing a meat free challenge and really struggled to find tasty vegetarian lunch options.  In the end I went for a wild mushroom pie only to find when I took my first bite that it was chicken and leek! 

Next we found ourselves in the City of London admiring the retro buildings around the Barbican made pretty by everyone's green fingers!

We then ended up at Liverpool St Station and wandered up Shoreditch High St to Hoxton where we saw old meeting new by way of the modern tall buildings shooting out of the backdrop from a traditional street.

After that we went to a very cool museum which I'll blog about once I've sorted out all the pictures I took!