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Tag: 2012

  • Travels: Portobello and Covent Garden during London 2012

    Portobello sign Portobello houses Busker and Goldsmith's vintage Books-Cameras Portobello Alice's Portobello Covent Garden
    – Portobello Market sign – pretty houses (mine will look like this one day!) – musician busking  – Goldsmith’s vintage – old books – vintage cameras – Alice’s Antiques – Olympic & Paralympic flags in Covent Garden – street performers in the square – 

     

    As well as enjoying the spirit of the Olympic Park at the Paralympics, I also spent some time with my family exploring London itself. I was surprised to hear that despite having lived there for a while when I was a toddler, my parents had never ventured to Portobello Road. 
    My fashion blogger senses kicked into high gear here and I was pretty excited to explore. Portobello is located in West London in the Notting Hill area. Near to such up-market neighbourhoods as Kensington and Chelsea the area was, of course lovely to walk around. I lusted and fawned over the pretty painted houses along the first part of the road before finally hitting the market streets. 
    Portobello Road Market is a decent mix of good ol’ British market stalls, cool vintage and second hand items. The streets are lined with antiques stores and stalls selling everything from jewellery to painting to crockery. I even spotted a giant mounted moose head in one of the shops. Part of the road is taken up by a generous helping of food and produce stalls selling freshly made goodies to munch on whilst you trawl on up the road. 
    The fashion is what draws in the hipster crowds with small boutiques and vintage stores further up the road. The street culminates in flea market stalls, selling at charity shop bargain prices – I’m talking three tops for £2 at one stall. Of course the trick is spotting the gems, which is possible should you have enough time to trawl the whole day (which I unfortunately didn’t). 
    The rest of our day was spent in one of my favourite places in London, Covent Garden. It all Olympic flagged up when we arrived and we took a break to enjoy the street performers and gorge on some crepes. 
    I was a little sad to head back to our hotel knowing that was our last day there, though Wagamama’s in the evening certainly made up for it. I’ll definitely have to have another head round (hopefully when the weather’s nice and dry) to have a proper dig around. 
     
    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo

  • Travels: London 2012 Paralympics

    Olympic Park Flags
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    Olympic Stadium1
    Me-Olympic stadium
    Olympic Park view2
    Olympic Park view
    – Greeted by fluttering flags – Collage of my time at the park, in the Aquatics Centre, joining the crowds & flying the flag for Team GB – Our view of the Stadium – All smiles in the sunshine – Panoramic view of part of the park – Storms clouds a-brewing but that didn’t stop us having fun! – 

    A few choice photos from the Paralympic Games. Me and my family headed up on the first day of the Games to spend the morning watching and supporting the athletes in the Aquatics Centre. Though quite a trek to get up to our seats the overall atmosphere during our session was great. There were, obviously, big cheers for Team GB and we even got to see Jonathan Fox break his own World Record in his first heat.
    The second morning was spent in the Olympic Stadium, which looked just as impressive in real life as on the TV screen and our view was incredible. We saw long jumps, track events and shot put events in our morning session. We also had the privilege of watching three medal ceremonies, took part in a stadium wide Mexican wave and cheered with the crowd, waving our Union flags.
    On both days we had a wander around the enormous park. I had to admit I was pleasantly surprised the park so very crowded with spectators from all over the world. The whole spirit of the Games was just infectious and it was great seeing so many people just as excited as we were to be there.
    I can’t be the only one who felt a little sad watching the Paralympic Closing Ceremony last Sunday, it seems like everyone has gone back to reality now that London 2012 has finished. I am glad I got to go down there while I had the chance.
    Anyone wanna save up for Rio with me? ;)

    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo

  • This Week…

    Day #21 – After work tea break and coffee – Day #22 – New commute read, Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky – Day #23 – Day #24 – Placement portfolio is a beast – Day #25 – Company magazine treat –

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    Soundtrack: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift 


    After the festivities and London excitement of last week, this past week has been a good ol’ reality check. Not that I’ve minded, nice to not be rushing around too much. One thing I am getting into the swing of is work wear. I’ve been working in a professional office environment for over a month now and I’m pretty chuffed that I’m still managing to snap some, albeit very sleepy Instagram-y, outfit shots everyday. 
    Have also spent most of today ogling over the new Spring 2013 collections from New York Fashion Week. I’ve found some lovely new favourites and renewed my love for some veteran designers. Definitely gave me some good ideas for future posts!
    Apart from that it’s been business as usual, though rather annoyingly the VMA’s turned up unexpectedly and ruined a perfectly good blogging schedule. I promise my London blog posts will turn up this week now that I’ve finished editing photos and sorted out when I’m posting. This has turned mainly into blogging admin babble but what the hey :) 

    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo