I'm so bad at posting in regular patterns and all i can do about that is apologise so sorry! But any how on with the post. Last weekend was very fun and eventful because i visited London with my class! I had a great time although it was very tiring as we crammed a lot into two short days. I wish i could have stayed longer and done more things, but i'm hopefully going back soon so its not too bad. There is quite a lot of writing in this post but theres photo's after :)
First let me start with the weird train journey. The train was pretty full and my teacher didn't reserve seats so we had to find un-reserved seats and this was really hard because there was so many people. In the end me and my friend Glenn got some seats next to an oldish couple and the journey was going fine until we were almost at London. First of all they started to analyse our teacher asking us 'what is she behind that image?' :S. When we got about three quarters of the way there the couple started having an argument about clearing out the garage and then it took a turn for the worst and the lady started asking her husband what would she do if he dies and she is left with all of his possessions. He didn't answer, then she proceeded to tell us that we could die right now and no one would know what to do because we hadn't planned out deaths. She also decided to tell us all of the possible ways that we could die throughout the weekend. So that was ... lovely. I think it was fair to say that we both wanted to go home after that speech :(
Never mind though we had a great time once we got there. The weather was lovely and we did lots of quirky unique things that i wouldn't have probably done if id went to London alone. We stayed in Shoreditch and explored artsy streets and book shops (there was so much art everywhere). The first day we visited a little art gallery/shop called the illustration cupboard, i really enjoyed it there because i love looking at different illustrations. We then went to the London transport museum and originally i wasn't looking forward to this much but I really enjoyed it and for a museum it wasn't boring at all, although its pretty small so for the money to get in there wasn't much :/. We then went to Foyles book shop a HUGE book shop, i loved it and could have quite happily have bought all of the books but i restrained myself. The last stop of the day was a comic book sighing in an amazing comic book shop. It was so cool to go to a night signing it made me feel important, plus there was free alcohol thats always good!
The next day we got invited to tour the Nobrow (a beautiful book publisher) offices and it was amazing to see where it all started, it was so inspiring and all of their books are wonderful and such high quality. I bought a lovely space book! We then explored Columbia road and a few other streets around Shoreditch and it was great i really loved the second day as it was so chilled and fun, plus the gorgeous weather helped a lot and made the whole day feel like i was inside an Instagram photo :') .
It was great anyways as they say pictures speak 1000 words so here are a few of the pictures that i took throughout the trip!
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| My class chummies and I at the train station Left to right: Zade, Me, Sophie, Glenn and Arron |
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| Escalator selfie with Arron and Devon :) |
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| Me pulling a face at Covent Garden :) |
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| Me in an old train carriage at the London transport museum |
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| Nobrow office :) |
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| Some of the class and one of my teachers chilling out in the sun |
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| Sophie and I in the Nobrow shop with our books |
I hope you enjoyed this fun post i had a great time in London and cant wait to go back in a couple of months! :) I think this blog is going to become more of a scrap book of little adventures that i go on, as well as reviews and other things. I hope that's okay with everyone :)
Thanks a lot
Mel xx
P.s i have a uni blog with my drawings and inspirations on if your interested its: melsdailydraws.blogspot.co.uk
