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A day in London

17/11/2012

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So I was lucky enough to spend another day in London last week. MAN, I love London.
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We always feel the need to order an English breakfast whenever we're in the UK, so we started off our day @ The Breakfast Club in Spitalfields. The Breakfast Club is very popular, maybe a teensy bit overrated, but the food is decent enough. The pancakes and potatoes are delicious, the bacon is crispy.
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He has a point.
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Then we took the London Overground to Shoreditch for the first time
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We stopped at the Shoreditch Pop Up Mall for a bit before we headed to Labour & Wait down the road. Labour & Wait is lovely, so down to earth and they have all sorts of things, from books and novelty items (like a pinhole camera set that contains everything to build your own pinhole camera. Even chemicals are included to process your photos!!) to classic kitchenware and beauty products. They sell all these things I don't actually need, but are so nice and fun and handy and simple that I wonder how I ever lived without them. These kind of stores are bad for me.  Read their blog here. 
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A very happy girl.
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I'm a bit of a nerd, and the human body is one thing that fascinates me, so I was absolutely dying to visit the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. This free museum displays an impressive amount of anatomical specimens. Such as foetuses and stillborn babies. A human foot with the elephant syndrome. Deformed animals. A skeleton of the Irish giant. You can also watch videos of surgeries, I watched an open heart surgery and the removal of a benign brain tumor. This museum excites me way too much. My excitement creeps me out a bit. I'm just really fascinated. I almost wish I was smart enough to become a surgeon, heheh.
You're not allowed to take photos, so I don't have any creepy photos to show, but a google search will give you a good impression of the place ;)
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Time for a quick lunch and Ladurée macarons @ Covent Garden.
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Never underestimate the power of a good macaron.
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Obligatory christmas tree photo (isn't Covent Garden particularly pretty during holiday season?!)
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Next on our list was the Building Centre!
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I really am an architect at heart (although some of my current work activities might beg to differ) so I always love to visit the Building Centre. They have several architectural exhibitions, an up-to-date scale model of London, a product gallery, a cafe, annnd they have the best bookshop ever. They sell every book imaginable for everyone who is in anyway related to the architectural/building world. I'm talking tourists, architects, surveyors, constructors, physicists or people who want to design or build their own home. Everyone.
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And then it was time for dinner and some hardcore speed shopping @ Oxford st. <3
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Ahhh. I had such a good time, I didn't even pout on the way back home.

Here's a last video of ZHL Strings Ensemble performing the Infernal Galop (can-can) at Covent Garden. We don't have enough free performances like this in the NL, I'm telling you. I could just stand there all day and listen to the pretty music.
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30/12/2022 07:19:40 pm

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