While everyone at Elsie Green is a bonafide Francophile, I will admit I am the resident Anglophile. I have loved England, and especially London, since I first stepped foot there as a little girl. The love affair began, and the chokehold London has had on me has never loosened since. I travel there as often as I can, and have dreamed of moving there for as long as I can remember.
The accents, the architecture, the food and pub culture, the street style, the music, the museums, the mews. To me, London is magic, and each season carries so much beauty. The vast green spaces, parks, willow trees and quintessential English gardens balance the charming, colorful and sometimes very stately homes throughout the city. Somehow London has been able to mix being very orderly, charmingly granny, edgy and gritty, with pomp and circumstance, and out has come the most perfect city.
And yes, no matter how many times I visit, I still squeal whenever I get a seat on the top front of a double decker bus, and my heart goes pitter pat when I pass red the phone booths.
There are streets dedicated to book stores only, charming high streets with independent shops in each borough, pubs nestled in the stately gardens, as well as on the windy streets. Not to mention the swans in the ponds and the foxes in the parks. There is no wonder to me that so many books and movies are written about and dedicated as love stories to London. London is what I consider as close to perfect as any city can be.
Follow along as I guide you to a wonderful time in London Town.
To Sleep
To Eat
High Tea at Fortnum & Mason
To Drink
To Shop
Get Cultured
As luck and culture would have it, many museums in London are free. Getting lost in the city on foot is also free. Having a destination is key, but the journey to get there can lead to so many adventures along the way.
Wander down a 17th century alley also known as book bookseller's row, Cecil Court
Bon Voyage!
xo Sarah
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