Places to visit in London

London is a massive city and there is so much to visit in London. I want to share my London places I liked and still visit. You might have heard of these places and may have even visited them, or maybe you are planing your London vacation and I want to recommend some really cool places to explose. 

There is a Belgium chocolate place called Godiva. It has a few restaurants all around Central London but the one I visited was at Harrods. I must say it is quite pricy but so good. If you have never had a actual real hot chocolate (like melted hot chocolate) at a restaurant please try this. It is soooooo good. It has dark, milk and white chocolates and they also sell chocolate truffles or you can get fondue or crepes and it is just the best. It is super rich so you will definitely need some water with it. I can assure you, your soul will swim in chocolate after this and will be forever grateful. 

Made in Italy is the cutest little Italian restaurant. It is in Chelsea so it is very fancy. I have yet to go to Italy but when I think of Italy that's what I imagine their houses and restaurants look like. I mean the ones at the country side. It had wooden tables and chairs with lots of dried peppers and garlic hanging of the walls and very nice paintings.  All the waitresses (well when I was there) spoke Italian so you really get a full experience. It has a very pretty terrace so maybe visit this in the warmer months. In the summer the restaurant is full of flowers and greenery and it is the cutest. 

The food is also amazing. It is super tasty and actually you get a lot in one plate. They also make a pizza to share. I think this place is very Insta, I love it. 

I always wanted to have a place to go and see all the new art work. Saatchi gallery is just right for that. It is very modern and they always put up new things in there. You can find this gallery at Sloane Squire and it is admission free. Their art ranges from painting to pictures to sculptures. 

It is just a cool place to visit. Sure you might not get all the art but it is fun to see what artists get up to. 

If you have not tried Lola's you don't know what life is. Not only they are super cute but they are so tasty.  I have tried quite a few and I really liker Red Velvet as well as this one on your left. I think it was called Blackcurrant cheesecake.  These come in normal size cupcakes as well as small. I think it is super cute to gift your friend if you want to make them happy.  You can find them scattered around central London usually they have like a little stall but it looks really snazzy.

You need to try this!

To be honest London is full of fancy bakery shops that does lot of cute cupcakes. If you walk around central I guarantee you will find a few. To be honest I have never tried any of these bakeries but their windows always look so pretty and I just want to make tons of pictures to have as memories. 

They look so delicious. 

This is probably my favourite place to hang out. I love nights and I love rooftops. I always wanted to get a flat that has a little balcony that you can get onto and watch the city.  You can find this at One New Change at St. Pauls. It has a fancy as club on your right (that it on top floor of the shopping centre)  and on your left there is a roof top to look around. Because of the club there might be a cue don't be intimidated just ask the security and they will let you through if you wanna get on a roof top, unless you wanna go to that club then you gotta wait in a cue. 

I would suggest going at night, but that is just my preference. 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Christmas in London

Christmas in big cities like London comes early and it also comes big. From lots and lost of shop windows themed Christmas, to street lights and street decorations and I don't mean just I central London. 

Lots of festive drinks and Christmas menus at the restaurants. Of course a lot of people pay a lot of money to come and see this beauty but when you live here it gets a little bit too overwhelming. I am not saying that I would like to see less decorations and less fairy lights, all I'm saying is that living in cities like these gets expensive. Not only you have an endless Christmas present list to buy but you also have these coffee shops on all the couriers selling all these deliciously sounding drinks. 

I have visited Winter Wonderland this year. I think I've been there once but it was years ago when Winter Wonderland wasn't big deal and when it wasn't that big of attraction. 

Now however, it is the place to be! I really enjoyed my stay, it was a really cold evening but all the mulled wine and tea and food made me warm and going. It is extremely big and it has so much to do yet very expensive. I found that it was very German inspired. It had lots of German food stalls and German tent bars and music. Although the music was good and the entertainment side was good too. It had lots and lots of rides to suit everyone's liking, a lot of them were scary rides. I am not fan of roller coasters or any spinning rides I just don't like it. So majority of things wasn't for me but I did go on a giant wheel which was really cool and the London skyline was visible too which was really pretty. Sadly the cubicles had glass and the pictures were really bad quality and you cannot see the real thing but I suppose that's why you should experience these things ourselves rather than view it through pictures. The mulled wine, waffles, fairy lights and all the Christmas presents made me feel super festive! I hope that you get to experience this little place of magic and once you there don't worry about people watching you, just enjoy yourself! 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Love

Love for London and Penpals! 

I live in London. However, I am not fortunate enough to be living in the central (the pretty part) of London to experience the overwhelming London beauty. I do have a lot of London adventures to reconnect and to really appreciate the pretty city that I live in. 

Yesterday was another day for London adventures for me and so was connecting with my penpal which I will talk about later on. 

There are a few pretty places you can go to see the view and the pretty streets and other touristy things but my most favourite is rooftops at night when all the lights are on and it looks as if the city is decorated in fairy lights and it is just so pretty, Also I love that you get a lot of wind on the rooftops (depending how high you are) and it really helps you to lose yourself in the moment. One of my favorite places to go, and it doesn't matter how many times I go there I always love it as much and sometimes even more than before, it's the Madison's view to St. Paul's cathedral. It is at St. Paul's underground station in One Exchange shopping center, you can get to the 6th floor, there is a bar and (like I would like to call) a "posh" club and opposite there is this a big space that overlooks the whole London, well kind of. 

I was born in a center of Europe and until maybe a year ago I have never heard of pen-pals. One of my really good friends told me about it but she feared that I might judge her for it when in fact I though it was the most awesome idea ever. I was always interested to know how people live on the other side of the world and what's different and what's not. So I created an account in My pen-pal world and start talking to a few people. I only had couple of pen-pals that I would talk to. We would talk over emails and to me it was so weird because I never talk to people over emails only to message teachers but then I don't really have teachers numbers so I have to communicate somehow. 

There were a few nice people and a lot of creepy people but I would assume you'd always get them on such social sites. I also met this German girl who used to write me the loooooongest emails and I used to get so excited for them and it used to take me over an hour to reply but these emails and it made me so happy. We could talk about anything and I literally mean anything. So finally she moved to London to go to Uni here and we finally met up and it was the best time of all. We had such interesting conversations, we even managed to have a few private jokes and it was the best evening. 

And on that note I advise or a wish to everyone to go and find different people and friend them, you don't have to share your deepest secrets but enjoy and socialize because you could meet such incredible people and it would make you glad for the rest of your life. 

(Here's a few snaps with her) 

Yours Izabele 

xoxo