London: Day 2 in pictures

On Thursday 2nd September and I after 6 hours sleep, I dragged myself out of bed at 7:30am and hauled myself over to Victoria station for 8:45am.  'Why so early?' I hear you ask, I was queuing for dayseats for Wicked.  Yippee!  I ended up being the first one there which completely confused me because I had never day seated before and I had no idea where to queue.  However, after about 20 minutes of watching commuters rush from Victoria station a lovely Japanese couple joined me and we ended up talking for the remaining 55 minutes.  She really liked my bunny iPhone case ^_^.   After securing the centre front row seat when box office opened at 10am, I made my way to Portobello Road for the first time ever.

I had heard great things about Portobello Road but I found most of it disappointing.  Because it was a Thursday not many stalls were out and the shopkeepers didn't seem at all friendly.   One even tried to sell me a plastic replica of Kate Middleton's engagement ring for £10! After walking the length of the road I decided to go back and buy a burgundy dress I spotted in the window of a store on the way to Portobello Road and a glass trinket box from a antique/bric a brac shop.

I headed back to Selfridges to buy gifts and to Monki - the new concession there which I found to be slightly like H&M but with an edge.  Although I didn't buy anything, I'll be visiting again because everything was very wearable and was a nice price.

Liberty was my next stop and I went upstairs for the first time!  I love the wood in this store - it's so English and well made.  They also have a great mix of heritage and contemporary pieces like the light below.   They even had their Christmas department open which made me start panicking about Christmas presents!

When I got to Covent Garden, after a nice walk from Holborn and a quick look in the new Kate Spade store (oh so colourful and chic!), I literally ran through and ignored all of the main Covent Garden Square!  Instead I went to one of the better shopping destinations - Neal Street and Seven Dials. I visited the cutest Japanese stationary shop - Artbox, the popular musical and theatre store - Dress Circle and Europe's largest forbidden planet because..  you know..  I'm a geek.  After all of this shopping I was really starting to get exhausted so I made my way back to the hotel to be reunited with my new best friend - aircon!

Fifteen minutes of freezing air, a quick dress change and a Krispy Kreme was all I needed to shop again on the way to Wicked!  I discovered the Whole Foods store in Kensington where I found myself worshiping mountains of Rocky Road and Meringues.  I also found these adorable cupcakes.  Whole Foods is food mecca.  

Wicked!  Ahhh one of the best musicals in the world! I took my front row seat (with fresh Krispy Kremes from Victoria station) and fell in love with the musical all over again! Rachel Tucker was an amazing Elphie as usual and Mark Evans playing Fiyero was just lush!  I swooned the whole way through!