Life Goes On for All The Daytrippers.

Pre and post-Shard visit, Moon and I had a bit of a jaunt around London town, something we haven't done in a while - though since then, we were in London almost every weekend in July. Ridiculous.

Even though it's basic tourist stuff, walking up/down Southbank in the sunshine truly is one of the nicest things to do in London. Starting at Borough Market in the morning, we walked right along the Thames (via Wahaca St Pauls) before ending up back at Waterloo to head over to Southfields to take a peek at our friends, Dan and Kirstin's new home. Not a bad day out, big LDN isn't so bad to visit every now and then.




I can't help myself when it comes to Borough Market, there's just too much good visual merchandising everywhere.



How offensively good-looking are these donuts?










Seeing the Shard from a distance, even after being at the top is still quite amazing. It's not even the tallest building I've seen and the scale, I guess when compared to the rest of the London skyline, is awesome.






Sampling my first ever Wahaca, I'm a believer. ♥





I thought these were matches, but how cute is it that they give you your own chilli seeds with your bill?


Everything about the dining experience at Wahaca St Pauls was on-point. It's probably not a great sign for them that it was a Saturday lunchtime in London and we just sat right down but the quality of service and food were nothing short of brilliant. I'd happily have there as my Wahaca of choice, I'm not a fan of waiting lists, seats at the bar or pagers.




The OXO tower looks as though it's attempting to become London's answer to Hong Kong's PMQ, it would certainly be welcome.






What are some of your favourite daytripper things to do in London?

Neighbourhood.

The second half of the day I spent in London with my sister was spent walking along glorious, touristy Southbank. The Festival of Neighbourhood made all the tourists worth it; it's funny how I feel like such a tourist myself when I go to places that are back 'home home' now, even though they were just a stone's throw away when I was living with my mum. I definitely wouldn't say that's a bad thing though, it makes everything feel a bit more like an event and a bit out of the every day, which I guess it is nowadays.


Tiny bottles of champagne, such a cute idea for graduation season.



As it was so hot and my sister hadn't been, after a mosey around the small food market they have there, we went straight up to the Southbank Centre's roof top garden for a drink, it was super pricey, £30 for a jug of Pimm's so we skipped on that and opted for 'pints' of lemonade instead (still £2.50 a pop and from a bottle of Schweppes).

It was lovely to sit up there and soak up the sun and atmosphere before having a walk around and look at all the pretty flowers and greenery. I first went up there a couple of years ago for my 22nd birthday and it's come along a lot since then, I'd definitely recommend it if you're visiting London over the summer.





Wild strawberry - bit obsessed with strawberries generally at the moment.


Reminds of the graffiti we saw in Bristol back in April.






It would be so much fun to get a bunch together and stay in a Living Architecture home, they so beautiful.


I was absolutely dying over the window gardens along the river, they're also worth a look. I was more looking forward to something similar to the beach huts they had on my last big summer visit all that time ago, but these were just as cool - if not more so as they gave me a little inspiration for the potential of my own garden, as well as giving me some new found appreciation.


Long Live Southbank




The type!














Have you seen any of the neat things going on along Southbank recently? It's still one of my favourite places to take photographs even after snapping it to exhaustion during my college years (yikes, that was an age ago!).