I am a sucker for everything retro! This year as i was browsing in the basement of Selfridges i noticed a new store called Pedlars that sells the most exquisite funky & retro items! My kinda store! I am so glad i found it… let me show you my favorite pieces…   A pencil holder… [...]

If you are planning on a bit of post xmas shopping… one place i would want to start with is the New Selfridges Shoe Galleries! Located on the 2nd floor… it opened up very recently -Last October or November- and it is AMAHZING!!! The vast shoe display area has two entrances… on the doorway of each [...]

Whenever i see the snow pictures my eyes tear up… it was so so SO beautiful… i believe it still is though i have prayed that Heathrow would have been closed to cancel my flight on the day of my return… Alas Allah ma ketab… If you are planning to go now see how much [...]

Re7taw London wella ga3deen?! Bema inah many people i know took the planes to London despite the weather conditions… gelt awarekom ishwayat pictures of London Xmas Lights… Oxford & Regent St. lights didn’t change much for the past 2 years but Carnaby Street did and this year they are AMAZING! I like the theme much… [...]

One thing i love most about London is the vast amount of interesting exhibitions they have year round! As i am a sucker for anything historic and related to the ancient Egyptian dynasty i couldn’t wait to visit the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead Exhibition in my favorite museum in London.. The British Mesuem! [...]

Since i get so nervous on the day i am travelling back to Q8 i usually only have breakfast and skip lunch… therefore by the time i go past customs into the tax free area in Heathrow Terminal 5 i would be STARVING… Knowing that the only meal that would await me on the plane [...]

I saw this huge Hermes Kelly bag in Selfridges and i was intrigued…a apparently it had a side entrance and when you go inside a movie starts about the Kelly bag! Sadly i had to meet a friend for lunch so all i could do is snap those two shots… the next time i was [...]

I love walking through Sloane Square especially on Saturday Mornings when a market is set up and you can find yummy things to buy! I also love sitting in Pattiserrie Valerie in Duke of Yorks Square to watch passerbys… and Partridges is a lovely place to shop for a gourmet treat! The place with the [...]

When i fist so Moaz and to be absolutely frank i was shooting something from across the street of  Moaz while my husband waited in front of it. Since i take forever to shoot he busied himself peering into the not so promising looking place…  when I came back to my husband insisted we go inside [...]

If you ever take the train to visit Birmingham i highly recommend you visit the Mailbox especially if you are planning to have dinner… why? Let me show you…  The Mailbox used to be a Royal Mail building that was later turned into a shopping mall… it is a few minutes walk from Birmingham New [...]

Tucked away in a tiny busy street of China Town is a tiny Crepe making place called Pandora… Never before have i seen a Crepe place with a more scrumptious window display!!! Just like something out of a cartoon!!! It makes your stomach turn and want to eat!!! They also sell this Takoyaki treat… i [...]

Earlier that day in London i was at Liberties eying some very pretty beaded braceletes with a blue eye bead in the middle, only when i flipped the price tag i found to my astonishement that they cost £70-100!!! The bracelet was so NOT worth £20 let alone £70+! I let it go of course… later in [...]

On my last day in London I planned to meet with FourMe for a good bye chat in the evening. We decided to meet in Carnaby Street since both of us were in that area… I knew of a small tea house in Kingsly Court, a favorite shopping place of mine in Carnaby Street that [...]

Good Morning… I am back in Q8 but i still have TONS of London posts to share… did you have your breakfast yet?! You might want to wait after this post to order some… Although i am not a fan of Harrods or Ladurée… i ended up there one day with my camera after a [...]

On my last day in London i was wandering sadly & aimlessly through the streets of London… light snow was falling and the weather was FREEZING… when i stopped dead in my tracks as my eyes fell on Amorino across the street from me!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes! Amorino?! If you have read my [...]

I was hoping when i published this post that i would be able to say “This is the City that is going to host the 2018 World Cup in the UK”… Alas the FIFA chose Russia over the UK… who would want to go to Russia instead of Milton Keynes, UK!?! … so now all [...]

One great thing about London is the amazing exhibits you get to see every now and then. This year i was lucky enough to be there during a great exhibit, the Titanic Artefacts Exhibition! The exhibition was at the O2 which i have previously posted about (click here)… i booked my tickets online and almost [...]

It started snowing early this year in the UK. There is nothing better in this snow than to stroll in a German style Xmas Market in the snow. It’s just the perfect time! We took the train to Birmingham to visit their Frankfurt Xmas Market and by the time we got there it was snowing [...]

Tucked away in a little street just after New Oxford Street…the is a little cosy bakery called Bea’s of Bloomsbury… after a long day spent shopping or in my case browsing the nearby British Museum, there is nothing better than stopping by Bea’s and having an English Afternoon Tea to rejuvenate… The place is small [...]

One place i like to go to in London is the O2 Dome or what was peviously known as “The Mellinium Dome”… What is there to do exactly? Where to begin? The main attraction i suppose is the O2 arena where many events and concerts take place.  But that’s not all! There are many other [...]

Last summer a new little booth popped up in Bicester Village that sells Crêpes. I tried them the last time i was in Bicester and i could see where there is a long winding queue leading to the little cash register… the smell of crêpes freshly made in front of you… the choices… watching people grasp bubbling hot [...]

  One experience you can never recreate in Q8 is the thrill and excitement of harvesting fruit directly from a tree! It’s amazing when you see a tree full of something you love, getting a basket and begining to tug and pull at the branches to get the fruit… there is something about filling that [...]

The moment i heard that Jamie Oliver had opened a restaurant in Westfield London i was itching to try it. I have tried his first creation fifteen a few years back and i loved everything about it aside from it’s location -really bad-. To have another Jamie Oliver creation and in Westfield Mall was simply [...]

The Monument to the Great Fire of London, or as it’s usually abbreviated as The Monument, is a tall stone column erected in place of the bakery where the great fire of London was started in 1666 that destroyed half of London back then. If you are a history fan and usually entranced by old [...]

Right on the corner of Leicester Square, London, there stands a lovely red sign with a group of people queuing to go inside and be seated… That place is one of my favorite  spots to relax in the UK… it’s Häagen-Dazs I remember being a little child in London, and my parents allowing only me to tag along with them [...]

If you love shopping, you will love Bicester Village! It’s a chic and cosy shopping area with Discount Outlets for many many Designer Brands: Matthew Williamson, Gucci, Temperly London, DVF, Juicy Couture, Ralph Lauren, Luella, Burberry, Anya Hindmarch, Mulberry, Vivienne Westwood, Ted Baker, Bally, Valentino, D&G, Dior, Salvatore Ferrigamo, YSL, Fendi, Versace and many many more… It’s a great place to [...]

Carluccio’s is one of my favorite places to dine in the UK! If you are a fan of Fatafeet or BBC Food, you would recognize Carluccio’s Chef: Antonio Carluccio from the cooking shows! I could eat every day in Carluccio and never get bored… i always start with their Bread Basket that contains the amazing [...]

I know no one is a stranger to Pizza Hut… but i do have a point to state here. Of all the Pizza Huts i have tried in the world… including the UK ones… including the very same branch in Liecster Square… there is not one Pizza Hut that serves a slice of pizza as [...]

If you are a fan of Shelock Holmes, you will for sure know that he lived in 221b Baker Street, London. One day i wondered if the address does exist so i set about walking and checking the house numbers.. to my surprise, not only does 221b exists, but it had a sign stating that [...]

With a history of 300 years and a royal warrant under it’s belt… walking to the Twinnings store is sheer joy to tea & history lovers! This store is the first known Tea Room in the world, located on 216 Strand Street, London and is still operating since it’s opening by Thomas Twinings in 1707. [...]