DAY OUT: London / Cartier in Motion

We had everything planned to the last detail, get the 8:25 train to London, straight to the Design Museum for the Cartier exhibition, then off to Richoux for an early lunch then into the centre for the shops and possibly a piece of carrot cake in the other Richoux before we came home.

And then I found out about the London Pride march, which meant we would be hitting Regent Street at about the same time as 750,000 other people. So a rethink was in order. We still got the 8:25 train, but instead of heading to Kensington, we went to Leicester Square instead and then walked up Regent Street and got to Kate Spade just before it opened.

From Kate Spade we walked up to Oxford Street and along to Selfridges where we spent a good little while in the Wonder Room and saw some cool watches, including a ceramic Audemars Piguet Concept Watch and also some cool TAGs (camo Aquaracer, Diamond Bezel Carrera Tourbillon and the new Autavia).

From here we wandered down Bond Street, looking in the windows at some very cool watches (including MB&F, Ressence, Grubel Forsey and Urwerk) and also popped into the very posh Breitling boutique to try on the new 45mm Avenger Hurricane, which was very cool but at £7100 it's unlikely to ever come into my possession.

A nice surprise as we walked down Bond Street was coming across the Charbonel et Walker shop, which we didn't know was there. We bought a selection and then having tried the Billionaires Shortcake we went straight back in and bought a box of eight (a steal at just £14.50!).

We walked down to our regular Richoux on Piccadily, only to find the doors open and the place ripped to bits. Great, closed for refitting! So we fell back on plan B (or was it actually Plan A) and took the tube to Gloucester Rd, where we happened to know there was another Richoux.

After lunch (and carrot cake) we headed off to the Design Museum via Kensington High Street (where we saw the slightly bizarre sight of a man walking down the street eating a Terry's Chocolate Orange) where we spent probably an hour at the 'Cartier in Motion' exhibition. Not only was this very good, but it was FREE! As such we felt okay about paying £3.50 each for a diet Coke in the funky Museum cafe (the posh one upstairs, not the shitty one downstairs - that's for the plebs).

(We particularly liked Alberto Santos-Dumont's very tall dining chairs and table)

Time was flying by and so we took the tube back round the Circle line (avoiding the whole Oxford Circus malarky), changed at Victoria and just caught the 4:55pm train home. Perfect!