Most born and bred Londoners would agree that living in such an amazing city we can at times take it for granted and not appreciate the little things in the big city the way a tourist would.
Enter ROSIE!
We arranged to meet up for lunch and kill a few hours as she was going to be passing through London on her way home to Oxford.
Our itinerary was as follows:
- Meet up at the Topshop flagship store
- Walk to Soho for lunch at Little Sicily
- Tapestry - Exhibition of Raul G's recent works of art
- Wander around the shops and pop in on Haleh at work before going home.
We took a few detours in between, I was reluctant at first but I'm so glad we did. It was so much fun :)
Little Sicily
I ordered the Burger Siciliano with fries, coleslaw, salad and a glass of red wine. Nothing spectacular but for £6 (shout out to Wowcher for the hook up) I'm really not about to complain.
Raul G @ Tapestry
Just some of the beautiful pieces of work on display
So the aforementioned detour involved a bit of wandering around Chinatown, spotting Tony Hirst (Paul from Corrie) having lunch in Soho #excitement, experiencing the sexiest but most complicated to get into carbonated lychee flavoured drink and a visit to M&M's world.
Ramune Carbonated Soft Drinks
Rosie is a child at heart, its what I love about her, so she pretty much had to drag me to M&M's World and thank goodness she did. Not only did I buy myself a ton of chocolate but I got to fulfil one of the childhood experiences I always missed out on.
I found stickers WITH MY NAME ON THEM.
Rosie understands my struggle. All our lives we were subjected to finding either Rose or Alice available in gift shops on stickers, pens or key rings, but never our birth names.
It may have been the scent of chocolate that went to my head but I was so ridiculously happy I felt the need for this picture to be taken so I could cherish the memory forever.
My beautiful m&m's
Rosieee
After all the excitement we retired to Leicester Square, people watched whilst munching on our chocolate and gradually made our way home.
Next on my list of tourist attractions are: The London Aquarium, London Zoo, The Tower of London, The Science Museum, LIBERTY (can you believe I've never been) and Borough Market.
I'll update when I tick them off the list.
xxxx
(Apologies for the images. My sd card memory is full on both phone and camera so until I get a chance to back them up I'm just going to be using Google images or other peoples photos)
