The Best!

Here the best things to do and visit in London:

*Best museums:
-Victoria and Albert Museum
-Museum of London
-Tate Modern
-Natinal History Museum
-Tate Britain


*Gardens and Parks:
-Kew Gardens
-Hampstead Heath
-Kenwood House
-Queen Mary´s Gardens
-Battersea Park
-St. James´s Park

*Walks:
-Regent´s Canal
-Southbank
-Hampstead
-Greenwich


*Shops:
-Oak Studio (8 Perrins Court, Hampstead)
-Daunt Books (193 Haverstock Hill, Belsize Park)
-Magma (8 Earlham St, Covent Garden)
-Shops in Columbia rd
-Rococo chocolates (321 Kings Road, Chelsea)
-Slanchogled (arts and craft materials, 66 Chalk Farm Rd, Candem)
-Urban Outfitters

*Markets:
-Borough Market
-Columbia Rd Market
-Portobello Market

*Neighbourhood
-Hampstead
-Belsize Park
-Chelsea
-Covent Garden

*Bars, Pubs, Restaurants:
-Caipirinha Spiritual Bar (Ferdinand St, Candem)
-The Toucan (19 Carlisle St, Soho)
-Jamie´s (Covent Garden)
-Freemason´s Arm (32 Downshire Hill, Hampstead)
-Oliver´s Fish and Chips (95 Haverstock Hill)

DAY 78: Spring day in Chelsea

What-a-nice-day!!!

Today it was so sunny!!!
And I decided to take a walk around Chelsea. It´s a lovely neighbourhood, full of perfect people and shops. A little posh for me, but it´s beatiful.

I started in Sloane Square, seeing some shops and walking the clean streets with white houses and private gardens.
Kate Spade shop has so beatiful things!, but I can´t afford almost anything!

Then I took King´s Road and reached the Saatchi Gallery. Well, that´s a great space of art, and it´s free! The building is so wide, and the art is modern, with nice sculptures and installations. The shop has some original stuff.
In Duke of York´s square there was a food market, I bought a lime-coconut cupcake and sat under the sun to eat it and see people pass by.
After this break, I walked all King´s Rd, and then went to Thames. You know I love this river, and Chelsea bridges are so elegant, like Albert bridge, it´s so fancy (like Chelsea).

I saw the Justice walk and its nice houses, and then croosed the river to the Battersea Park. It´s so wonderful the Spring!, I really enjoyed this park. There´s a Pagoda by the river, and a lake, and some vintage structures from the Festival of Britain in the 50´s. I looked for Henri moore´s sulpture like half an hour, but it´s by the lake if you want to find it.
The Battersea Power Station is really near this park, and it looks like it´s watching over the people in the park.
The views by the Thames are great.

I crossed again and walked by the river, the Physics Garden already closed, so I continued till the Battersea Power Station, I thought maybe, when I come back to London, it will be different.
Then I went back to Sloane Sq. and took the Underground.

Sloane Sq. Station

Lime and coconut cupcake

Anthropologie

Albert Bridge

Battersea Park

Henri Moore

Battersea Power Station

DAY 65: Lets go for a walk in the garden of Eden...

Today I went to Kew Gardens.

I love it!

What else can I say?

It was a sunny day, trees were starting to bloom, lovely!

I visited the victorian glass greenhouses. In the Palm Tree house, I melted a little, but it´s realy impressive to see palm trees really old, and one them it´s blooming, and then, it will be dead when it finishes, but it was there for years and years. The green houses are so beatiful, and the sunlight came in so smoothly.

I also liked the Princess of Wales greenhouse, where you can passed from one climate to another only with crossing a door (there´s 7 different environments), with a carnivore plants room and orchards room as well.

The water lillies House was closed until April, I really was sad to missed it!

The garden itself, whit its views where you can walk over the grass, the different trees and flowers (and a wonderful perfume), the Kew Palace and the Pagoda was so beatiful and relaxing.

The Treetop walk, I think it was impressive, but I suffered a lot walking it! I´m really afraid of heights, and it was a long half an hour to me (normal people can make in 15 minutes). But very nice views.

I love it. But apart from being a beatiful place, they make such a wonderful research and conservation work. 

And now, I want to visit in the summer!

Palm House

Temperance house

Alpine house

Kew Palace

Treetop walk

The Pagoda