East London Life

Well, we have been living in London for one whole month now! Time has gone so fast, I have been so busy at work that I have barely had time to do anything but every weekend we both make time to get out and see a bit of London!

One weekend we vsited Old Spitalfields Market, which is about a 15 minute walk from our house. It's a mostly indoor market and has heaps of different stalls, sellin vintage clothes, food, homewares and also clothing from upcoming designers. 

Some of the amazing baked goods at Old Spitalfields Market and these really cool flattened beer bottle clocks, pretty inventive!

A really cute little store selling homewares and vintage goods. 

Some amazing fudge, they had all kinds of flavours, including cookies and cream with oreo chunks! They also had lots of beautiful home made jewellery stores!

 

There are also heaps of local restaurants in Old Spitalfields Market - we headed to a burger place which is not normally my thing but I had the most delicious chicken pesto burger ever!

From here we headed over the Brick Lane Market - this is a huge and very famous street and market. It is huge on Sundays, which is when we went. It is well known for it's international street markets and also many famous and delicious curry houses. 

This area is also well know for its street art, you can do alternate tours of East London and they take you through some of these streets to check out the street art but I think we found some pretty amazing stuff on our own!

How amazing is this? There is gorgeous pictures and street art all along this street and it actually looks amazing and adds to the 'alternative East London' vibe. I swear I didn't edit this at all except for adding a border!

We walked through a GIANT street food market, the foods below I think were Korean and Ethiopian - very unique and the smells were absolutely amazing!!

A snapshot of some of the curry stalls, there are literally hundreds of these kids of places all over brick lane, the curries are amazing and fresh and definitely not good for you but they taste AMAZING - we have definitely had our fair share of ethnic food in this first month!

Something I really love about this area of London is that everything and everyone is so culturally diverse and everyone gets out there and enjoys food from other cultures, I think that's really cool and althogh I am living in a mostly Indian/Bangledeshi area of London everyone has been super friendly to me!

Another amazing cake stall - these baked goods smelt DELICIOUS, we stopped for a salted caramel cupcake, which was delicious and also not good for us!

Some photos of the Backyard Market - this is a place that specialies in mostly vintage clothing and goods, as you can see from the photos the have vintage everything, from photos, to chairs, to pianos and entire bedroom set ups! There are also plenty of vintage and normal bookstores lining this street. 

Michael just cruising up Brick Lane. 

I actually bought these two signs pictured below and we have one hanging up in our bedroom, I thought they were really cool!

Another weekend we headed out again in the Spitalfields area and found a delicious Thai restaurant, my dish was a pumpkin curry (two of my favourite things in the world combined! It doesn't get better than this!)

Later that night, just to continue the food trend, we headed to an Oktoberfest Street Festival! Again, there were heaps of food stalls, including alcohol, and people everywhere! Finding a seat in one of these places is actually something money can't buy!

Me with the most delicious German style wrap! Don't worry I have been spending my weekends athe gym so I don't suffer from the dreaded 'London Injection' or whatever it is called!

Finally, we decided that since Tower Bridge is only a 15 minute walk from our apartment we should go check it out at night all lit up.

It is actually gorgeou at night, possibly because blue is my favourite colour!

We actually were super lucky, as we were walking up to the bridge a big boat sailed underneath and the drawbridges went up - this is supposed to be quite a rare occurence and seeing the drawbridge go up i supposed to bring you luck - bring on the luck I say!

A little snap of me on the beautifully lit up Tower Bridge at night =)

That's about all we have been up to so far - I am still flat out at work, so at least time passes fast but I do love relaxing on the weekends and seeing a bit of London!