Hey guys,
On our last day in
London we woke up pretty early and headed straight for Notting Hill. We figured
we had to check the area out because of the movie of course but also because it
looked like such a cute area and I honestly can’t believe how adorable it
really was. If I were to ever move to London, I would definitely have to live
in Notting Hill. Almost every single house was painted a fun color (mine would
of course be pink or maybe even Tiffany blue). We also read in one of our
travel books that they had a cool market to go to on the weekends.
When we got to
Notting Hill, we were kind of lost at first but eventually we just kept walking
(and we followed some people) and we found the market and the official Notting
Hill bookstore from the movie. It’s actually a gift shop and it looks a little
different now because they have a sign above the Notting Hill sign saying “The
Travel Book Shop” and one below that says “Notting Hill Gift Shop.”
While we were in
Notting Hill we did some touristy shopping and we purchased some cute souvenirs
such as London themed socks. The reason we did this was because when we went to
Ireland, one of the days when we were traveling around my feet and my sister’s
feet were absolutely freezing and we stopped in a shop and all three of us girls
(my mom, my sister, and myself) purchased Irish themed socks. So we figured we
might as well carry on the tradition of buying socks while visiting another
country!
I would definitely
recommend checking out the Notting Hill area if you are ever in London. I
definitely wish we would have had more time to explore but I grateful just to
have been able to walk around and do the little shopping that we were able to.
After we finished
visiting Notting Hill, it was a day full of museums and galleries! The reason
we headed straight for Notting Hill in the morning was because our last day was
on a Sunday and just like here in America, most things didn’t open that early
on Sundays in London. The museums didn’t open until around 10 in the morning
and some of them were even later. We went to four different museums and
galleries. We checked out The Victoria & Albert (V&A Museum), The
Natural History Museum, The British Museum, and The National Gallery (in that
exact order).
We hit up The V&A
Museum (this was the love story that was being told at Kensington Palace that I
talked about on Day 4) first because I believe it was the first one to open
that morning and then we checked out The Natural History Museum because it was
right next door. We checked out The V&A Museum mostly because it said it
had a fashion section and I am extremely into fashion (if you couldn’t tell by
my fashion blog! haha) and I really wanted to see what they had on display.
This museum was free to enter but some of the temporary exhibits charged a fee
to get in. I have included some of my favorites pieces from the fashion
collection.
We didn’t stay very
long at The Natural History Museum because we’ve already seen most of the stuff
either at museums in New York, Washington D.C., or other museums located
throughout the US. We saw a couple dinosaurs and then we made our way through
the museum to the Earthquake simulator because we haven’t see one of those at
any other museum before and we also don’t experience earthquakes in Florida so
I thought it would be interesting to check out. To be honest, it was kind of
lame but I think it might have been died down a little for kids. When the
simulator went off, the floor and the walls shook but it wasn’t very intense.
The third museum we
checked out was The British Museum. This museum houses the Rosetta Stone and
pieces from the Parthenon. Aside from the V&A Museum, this was probably my
second favorite museum because it had interesting artifacts and unique
displays.
We checked out TheNational Gallery last and I honestly can’t remember what we looked at while we
there but I do remember that when we were walking up to the museum there was
huge Islamic gathering right out in the front of the museum. We were all pretty
scared and we weren’t entirely sure if we should just head back to our hotel
and avoid the area or if we should just continue on and go to the museum.
Obviously we selected to just carry on and visit the museum.
In the evening, we
decided to call it an early night and head back to our hotel because we had to
get up pretty early to catch our train to PARIS!!! We headed back and packed up
our suitcases. We ended up getting take-away from one of the Italian restaurants
that was across the street from out hotel. It was pretty good food but unfortunately
I can’t remember the name of the restaurant.
So one thing that we
always whenever we go to New York is take a picture of all of our shopping bags
at the end of the trip. The reason we do this is because we love NYC and we
absolutely love going there to shop! It's literally the best shopping experience
because they have every single store you could possibly want to shop in and
they even have multiple locations of the same store all over the city. So we
noticed that we had a lot of shopping bags like we always do whenever we go to
New York plus I knew I would be doing some shopping while in London because
there were a couple stores that I discovered thanks to watching YouTube beauty
gurus and so we decided to take a picture of all of out shopping bags (this is
not something we did in Paris but only because we didn't really do any
shopping)!
However, this picture
does include the bags we received whenever we bought souvenirs while sightseeing.
Some of the stores that we shopped at include Primark, Boots, Pandora, The
Disney Store, and Next (this store was not planned and we had never heard of it
before but we saw a couple of them around London and it looked super cute! We
ended up finding quite a few things each!)
Thanks for stopping
by!
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XO, Steph
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