From London over to Budapest

I can’t believe it’s already been a week since I took my long weekend break over to Hungary’s Capital, feels like I’ve never left the capital! So Thursday evening after work missioned over to my travel buddy’s place in Canary Wharf before we had to wake up 4-5hours later to Luton Airport for our early morning flight with Wizz Air. A name sounds funny; sounds a bit fake but was a genuine airline, just a small company.

Seriously, leaving Canary Wharf at 4.30am who’s happy as Larry that early? I was more slightly grumpy but very witty with my usual humour!

The plane was pretty busy fair few groups; stag dos blokes getting drunk on the plane at 8.30am?! But Wendy & I mainly slept on the plane.

Arriving to Budapest, sun was shining, air was ice cool but refreshing, the sun warmed us up which made it better.

As we put our baggage in the hotel, chilled out and freshened up; we decided to head out and explore the going on in the Pest, Buda is the old side and the other side of the Danube River.

Why even out of the UK there are still men honking their horns at women walking along side the road?! If it was England, late in the evening, I’ve had a few I’ve be lippy & make hand gestures.

Wendy & I were already getting a bit snap happy with the scenery around us, Buildings on the Buda side looked amazing.

Checking out the usual touristy spots, Parliament, St Stephen’s church many other places. The architecture was beautiful, very detailed stone carvings, with a gothic feel.

Taking a visit into Margret Island in the middle of the Danube River was a beautiful escape, it definitely felt like autumn on the island, the leaves of rich shades of burnt orange and shades of yellow were falling onto the ground, joggers and cyclists around the island. Definitely a perfect Sunday, strolling and seeing the amazing pieces on the island. From the War monument on one end of the island, the ruins of an old church in the middle and finish off by seeing the Well and Japanese garden at the other end of the island.

Overall a wonderful escape, I thirst for more sight seeing adventures! ^.^

Bikram Yoga

I decided to try this form of activity out. Why not, 20mins into Canary Wharf from work and there was the offer of £20 for 14days compared to £15 a lesson

So many forms of Yoga there are these days and I decided to try this form. Bikram is where you do Yoga positions in a heated room, bit like a sauna, helps to prevent injuring yourself in the hotter conditions, reduces stress and tension and of course helps the blood circulation.

My friend Lou and I popped in early to sign in and get ready; got our spot at the back we though, ok doesn't seem too busy, yet. As we were warming up and stretching; Lou and I watched in awe as one of the women was warming up she was streching everywhere, very flexi! Lou also told me the session was 90min.... I thought WHAT?! I thought's it was going to last 60min.... never in a yoga session.When the class started there was without a doubt over 30 people in the room >.<,

In the Class we did 20 poses 40min of it the teahcer said it was warm ups! In the last section of the class I was getting pretty worn out and getting fed up of repeating some of the positions, the heat really gets to you and the smell in the room... not the nicest especially when there's so many people in there! I think i was pretty much done after 75min of the class.

As the lesson finished people were warming down, I did a tiny bit and thought F**k it I'm hitting the shower! I was drenched in sweat!

Overall it is a good experience glad I tried it out; definitely doing it a bit more with my promotion going, just need to remeber to drink more water and own one of them Lycra sports tops, cotton vest is still good but wouldn't want this size of a garment drenched on me!

Back to partying!

As most people who know me, I am a character who enjoys being out and about partying, but recently I've been really quite and not partied!

On Saturday I decided to party out over to Shoreditch for Shabba's Magazine Launch party. My Big Bro was up in London for the weekend and  I was chatting to him and sayin how I haven't been out for quite a while. He replied back to me saying "7 days isn't a long time" (-.-") It's been Longer than 7days! More like 3weeks!!! Tiger Tiger wasn't even that fun!

So I partied out with a few friends, got in for Free fortunatley as my Mates housemate was Djing.

Drinks were mixed fun fun music was played a real variety of a crowd always is for a fashion party; I felt so small as many were in towering heels including some guys

Very good party, wanna party some more now but Holiday on the way!

The Inconvenience London Has for me

I know what you guys may think from my title, but what I find is inconvenient in London is the lack of Wilkos down North!

I know it may sound funny to you guys; since Uni, Wilkos has been a staple convenient store for me to shop at for all home essentials! Come on Even Bristol had quite a few stores around!

Check out this Map! they only seem to ben up around North & East London :(

As I was around East London with my friends after a Japanese class; they needed to pop over to Stratford's Wilkinsons to buy some bits. I thought why not tag along I may find bits I need; and guess what I did! house had a broken fold up basket we use for laundry, broke :( but happy! They had them in Stock sold individually & were only £2.25 each! ^.^

I will have to say I'm surprised Tooting doesn't have a Wilkinsons, plenty of pound stores, used to have a Woolworths but no Wilkinsons

I'm a bit sound & "Mo Liw"

Collaboration

Decided to make a bit of a change in the Blog of Layouts - Why not!

I can't wait Till November only Next Month (^.^)

Back in 2004 as I was back in College starting out training to be part of the fashion world; H&M did their first designer collaborations with Chanel's & Fendi's designer Karl Lagerfeld, year after came Stella McCartney, last year was Jimmy Choo - The design label collaboration with High Street brand.

Still  great design of clothes an accessories, just the cheaper alternative to the high end RTW that's usually £300+

I can't wait for this Year's collaboration with French Label Lanvin ^.^

Here's a teaser Promo of the behind the scenes

Hyper Japan

Over in the Truman Brewery in East London was a fun fun Festival event celebrating Japan's culture - Hyper Japan.

Quite a busy event many people coming to check it out, people dressed in Cos play, some of the girls did look Kawaii, I won't be surprised they took ages to do their make up!

Of course typical me & my friends were there of course to see what great food they had available; I couldn't say no to some freebie tastings! hehehee ^.^

Katsu Curries, sushi, Takoyaki, Yakitori, ice cream...... Ok I'm a food fiend I will admit ^.^ They even sold a variety of Japanese snacks, there was even a guy walking around with a basket selling too! But some of the things weren't the cheapest; probable alternative, Japan Centre or China Town.

This was an interesting experience of what Japanese culture is like, it's a shame the venue was small, some of the things were pretty expensive, especially the Lolita styled clothes... I could even make it!