Among the many cool bags on display we saw the 'Full Plume Wicker Peacock', 'Cameron St Tangier Floral', 'Full Plume Mint Leaf Crossbody', 'Full Plume Tea Glass Bag', 'Cameron St Lantern Tile Clarise', 'Rambling Roses Lantern Bag', 'Cameron St Floral Margot', 'Whimsies Triceratops Crossbody' and the 'Whimsies Balloon Unicorn Clutch'. We also went upstairs for the first time, we hadn't realised there was more up there. Mostly 'home' stuff and a small amount of children's wear.
Kate Spade Scenic Route Car Bag - £495
From here we headed over the road to Watches of Switzerland, nothing very exciting in here really, some nice Hublot's and a very cool purple/pink Zenith ladies watch.
Zenith Elite Automatic Moonphase
We left Regent Street and headed down to Leicester Square where we had a very nice chicken and chips in All Bar One. Afterwards we shared a piece of (quite nice but not really amazing) Orange Mouse Cake. The mouse was nice but the sponge was nothing to get excited about really. Then we had a cocktail each (Pina Colada and a Long Island Ice Tea) before heading off past the Lego shop towards the tube.
We caught the tube at Piccadily and changed at South Kensington on our way to Kensington High St where we visited the London Design Museum. I have to say this was somewhat disappointing, it seems there is a rather large building with a small amount of stuff shoved into one corner on one floor. The rest of the place seems completely empty and rather pointless. A case of bad design one might suggest...
Thankfully the visit wasn't completely without merit as there was an exhibition on Russian architecture in the basement which was quite interesting. No really, it actually was! 'Imagine Moscow' was about six buildings which were planned to be built in the 1920's but never came about, including a crazy 400m high skyscraper with a 100m high statue of Lenin on the top. Also some other crazy buildings that looked like they should have been in a Flash Gordon film...
Leaving here we walked through Kensington and down Young Street to a pub called The Builder's Arms where we enjoyed a nice (and surprisingly reasonably priced) Coke and a sit down. The barman looked like George Clarke and it took him nearly 'fifteen minutes' to put two cokes in the till. Not literally put the Cokes in the till, that would be silly.
1 Kensington Court Place
Then we headed for Gloucester Rd where we passed an estate agent and marvelled at the £7m houses on offer. Astonishing and utterly mental. At the bottom of the road we found another Richoux and noted it for future reference. We took the tube up to Kensington and then visited Harrods. There were some pretty cool handbags here too, not least the Dolce and Gabbana resin bags with lights inside. Pretty cool!
Also we saw some HUGE Fendi pom-pom things that were £450! Which is totally ridiculous, we didn't even look to see how much the Fendi bags were. Too much, probably.
As entertaining as the handbags were, the main reason to visit Harrods was to see the Watch Room. This was pretty amazing and featured watches from TAG Heuer, Omega, IWC, Roger Dubuis, Breguet, Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger le Coultre, Longines, Lange and Sohn, Chopard, Tudor, Zenith, Gerard Perrigaux, Ulysse Nardin, Panerai and of course Rolex. Strangely no Breitling though... (also there was Graff and Dior etc in the jewellery room).
Richard Mille had some pretty amazing watches in the window too, including the Evil Eye RM26-02 Tourbillon below...
We also saw a £250,000 Lange and Sohne watch and a hideous AP Royal Oak with a sort of knuckle duster on the side for about £80,000. Truly awful...
We walked back up towards Green Park through Knightsbridge and spotted a Ferrari showroom which had a 2015 F1 car in the window...
A little further along we passed The Wellesley Hotel, outside of which was parked a Lamborghini Aventador, truly the most bonkers car we've ever seen in the flesh (and considering we'd just seen a Formula One car about three minutes before!).
It was pretty much the same as this one, except it didn't have the wing on the back.
Then it was past The Ritz and on to Richoux where we enjoyed our now customary snack of garlic bread and fries to share, and this time we indulged in a slice of carrot cake (which was excellent), we will definitely be back.
The plan from here was to walk up Bond Street and ogle the watches in the windows, sadly there weren't any watches in the windows because all the shops were shut, so we decided to call it a day and zipped back to Euston to catch the 7:13 home.
LINK TO ARTICLE ABOUT THE 'IMAGINE MOSCOW' EXHIBITION:
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