We decided to have a shopping trip to London last weekend, not sure how we decided to go... but nominally to go and buy me a Birthday present :-)
The first bit of excitement was at the train station at Ascot, where we saw the steam train... not sure what it was doing there but obviously some trip somewhere and lots of people were on board having their breakfast !
Once at Waterloo, we went to get the tube, but there are lots of lines closed due to engineering works and also an "incident" on the circle line, so it was confusing and crowded but we ended up at our first planned destination, Portabello Road. Coming out of the tube, there was a queue just to get out! There were hundreds of people walking up and down the approaches to and Portabello Road itself..... We walked up most of it, but wasn't a very pleasant shopping experience due to the crowds
We then went on the tube to Regent Street and found a nice cafe for lunch, then went into Hamleys! After spending a fair amount of time in Hamleys, we walked to Hatton Garden (as it was a nice day . Hatton Garden is the Jewelery quarter so majority of the shops were expensive Jewelry shops !
Then decided to go to Harrods, where we made the only purchase of the day.... a handbag.... no not for my birthday, it's for Lynn :-)
On the way home, we had to change at Ascot and decided to pop in the pub for our evening meal. The food was really nice and pretty reasonable so were pleased with our decision.
All in all a very nice trip out, despite not buying what we went out for....
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