Day 21 of 21 - London

The last day of the trip was spent in our most favourite country of all - London!

Started our day in beautiful Soho for lunch at Gail's Artisan Bakery:

Coffee was just right. Mushroom ragu had a combination of goat's cheese and mushroom served on toast and spinach. Maple bacon brioche was a real treat! #omnomnom 

Cutter & Squidge for dessert! Everything on their display is simply too good-looking for consumption.. We ordered their honeycomb cake and pistachio, raspberry and rose biskies! Not too overly sweet but I think we had a hard time trying to finish everything. 

London is so insanely expensive. Ok more like the exchange rate is. A full cake cost abt 50 pounds, that's like 100 SGD!! 

My tour guide and I, hur hur.... (Bernard wouldn't stop saying that I looking a sotong who just woke up, ugh)

Pls don't judge the denim on denim outfit, all my other clothes were in the washing machine (which we took a gazillion years to figure out how to use lul). Sweater and Jacket belongs to Bernard, peace. 

Basically spent the first half of our day doing what we do best, EATING! Fraq's lobster shack was like a budget Burger's & Lobster. I wouldn't recommend this place even though their mini lobster roll is only 10 pounds.. 

It was the last day in London (and of the trip) and because we spent most of our time shopping, it's kind of ridiculous that we haven't seen the Tower Bridge so off we went! 

holy macaroni

What an amazing icon of London!! So photogenic and beautiful :-) 

Off to dinner after! One place I wanted to try so bad was Dishoom but the queue was always sooo long but since it was our last day, we decided to queue (almost an hour) for it. 

Don't ask my why the pictures are so saturated, the lighting was so terrible and this was the best hahaha. And very SADLY, the food was just average though I really like their cocktails.

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Yes, it's crazy that I took 5 months to finish blogging about my 3 weeks vacation. Three weeks - three countries and  six cities. I feel like the more I blog about this vacation, the more I miss it so much (especially London). This trip fundamentally changed my life. I basically worked my ass off over the span of six months with 3 to 4 odd jobs while balancing school and life, saved $5000 and went there to live the life. Was it worth it? More than. Till the next trip x

"This trip definitely changed my life, and my advise to everybody is to do it. Save your money, pack your bags, go do the dream trip you've always wanted to do while you still can, because it will inspire so much of you to grow, to become who you want to be, to motivate you to keep going for more. Don't hesitate, and take the leap of faith. The best thing money can buy you is the opportunity for life changing experience, so go out and get it for yourself." 

Day 16 of 21 - London

oh my yumssss Asian food to start our day!! My baguette was so satisfying!

hehe the falling red telephone box is so cute! Oh and I forgot what happened to my stockings but I had to head out to buy one and I froze like that in the cold the entire morning, sobs... 

And off we went to explore Camden Lock. It was kind of weird because it was such a quirky, eccentric yet unique and vibrant place to wander about. An odd mix of people and culture. It was a nice place for a quick browse but I don't think i'll ever go back though haha, it was too uncanny for me and it just wasn't worth the time! 

Bernard and I had some time to kill so we went back to Obicà for their black truffle buratta cheese!! Call us crazy but that's how good it is...

I miss this so much *cries*

Beautiful Oxford at night, I think we went for more shopping after #cantstop #wontstop 

And then, dinner at The Breakfast Club at good old Soho!

From the interior to the food, gosh it was so sick. The menu provokes salivation as any good breakfast should do. I went for their fluffy pancakes AND I LOVEEEE IT :-) Their iced tea was pretty good too!! I just wished I visited during breakfast :-(

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Finally moving on to Paris in the next post, stay tuned x 

Day 15 of 21 - London

Mad apologies for the lack of update, the New Year flew by like a breeze and I fell super damm sick and was vomiting non-stop. Glad to be back on this space! I know i'm supposed to be doing a New Year's post by tradition but I really don't have the feels to do one this year and I really want to finish up blogging about my crazy long trip so I can move on and blog about other stuff like my birthday, my fifth anniversary, my trip to Bangkok and all the other random stuff so... forgive me if I don't do a New Year's post haha!

So, we returned back to London from Manchester on the 15th day! Met Amber in town for lunch and as mentioned, the Asian food cravings were so real we had to settle for some pretty good Japanese fare at Eat Tokyo!

The pictures don't do justice, the katsu was insanely HUGE in portion. Bernard and I shared and we were so full. but isn't everything in London like that? Double the price of SG but also double our portions! 

Amber brought us to tour Trafalgar Square before heading back to Kingston!!

sigh... looking back at all these photos makes me miss London to the core T_T

settled in at Amber's house and headed out again to explore Kingston! uh my gosh, we were so full but still went ahead with the milkshake. And then we caught the sunset and took a ton of photos by the river : )

Swan watching!!! They were really crazy and aggressive??? Bernard and I got a crazy shock:

Bernard wanted to have his own photo shoot LOL:

wah #swag 

And then we crossed opposite to the forest looking area to take more photos hahaha:

Just look at the view while the sun sets....

So went to have dinner at Zizzi which turned out to be one of the best yet worst meals ever. 

Worst meal ever: The pizza we ordered was the spiciest thing I've ever eaten in my life. I think the waiter hated us cause we were Asian or something but when we asked why it was so spicy, he said Italians always like it spicy like that and even questioned if we've ever been to Italy. Bruh. 

Best meal ever: The king prawn linguine was my ideal pasta I can eat for the rest of my life, i'm not even exaggerating!