harrods tea&sweets, the tube, brighton pier, to-die-for marks&spencer tea cakes, olympic 2012 stadium, victoria&albert museum, delicious cassis&hibiscus from marks+spencer, green park

English breakfast tastes like darjeeling… I found more England photos I forgot I had! So here they are, last ones I promise. I miss Marks + Spencer terribly and I think Brighton is so pretty. I still have to buy that TeenVogue copy with Alexa Chung the day we spotted her at the pier doing the photoshoot. My one regret: not buying enough mango black tea from Harrods because it is delicious and extremely fragrant. 

I have finals week coming up next week and if I survive, I will be taking my camera for an adventure this December. That means a brand new photodiary series for all of you and it will have nothing to do with Paris, Scotland, or London. I’m excited, this time of my life will be extremely special to me.

À bientôt. Finally posting the last of my photos from my European adventure, but I’ll be back. I miss my time here every day. On to new adventures!

champs de mars, rue montorgueil, les puces treasures, crêpes, a bazaar, framboise eau de vie

One day, we’re gonna live in Paris, I’m promise. I’m on it. A few photos from Paris (I just realized I’m going a bit out of order here and I haven’t posted the rest of London, but I’m quite excited for these ones). My whole trip there felt like a total dream— way too much fun. I stayed in this cute little area on the 2e arr… So lively and lovely. I also checked out Les Puces (de Saint Ouen— supposedly the biggest flea market of the world). I really wanted to buy plenty of things from there to take home with me, but I obviously wasn’t able to. Lots of cool looking furniture and beautiful prints. Hmmm.. what else.. oh yes, I definitely snacked on a lot of Nutella crêpes. Cheap and delicious = total win.

central saint martin’s college of art + design, my friend getting a haircut on the side of the road, pina coladas, delicious chinese food, vintage shoes that will never fit me, a guy in Brick Lane selling feathers, London Evening Standard

Brick Lane, baby. Part one of photos from London… I definitely enjoyed some Indian food over at Brick Lane. De-li-cious. I really like that area. Like usual, I needed more time to explore. We stumbled upon some cool vintage markets and tried on some hats. Random, but now I wish I had gotten it. One thing I hate about London though: the gloomy weather. How can Londoners do it? I needed some Cali sunshine.

elephant house, afternoon tea at Willow Tea Rooms, fake windows, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, more more more coffee, Dynamic Earth, a friend’s cracked iPhone, L.S. Lowry, chicken burger at Holyrood 9a, a taste of Haggis, a tour of the Glasgow School of Art, more of Edinburgh + Glasgow, and lastly postcard writing while taking the rail to London

My Scotland Adventures. I have a list of countries I want to go to and I honestly didn’t expect myself to end up here… GLAD I DID THOUGH. For the most part, I don’t care where I go. It’s a pretty good feeling to adventure it up and experience other people’s cultures, you know what I mean?

ENGLAND PHOTODIARY. Honestly, where do I even begin?

I took a summer abroad program through my university to study design (mainly exhibition + a bit of graphics). We stayed in York but traveled to different parts of England for the first two weeks. The last two weeks were spent in Scotland and London, then I spent my 5th week in Paris for fun (but I’ll post photos of that later!). During our two week stay in Yorkshire, we went to Liverpool, Manchester, Whitby, Bradford, and Wakefield. We spent a majority of our class time in different types museums and narrative environments, so I definitely got to see a lot of art & design.

I love the fact that you can just take the rail through out England and end up in a different city (or country). Some people & I went to Manchester to celebrate a birthday and then went to Liverpool the next day. I actually liked Liverpool and had delicious fish + chips at the Pump House by the water. I enjoyed the little coastal town of Whitby as well— it was very cute. Besides consuming fish & chips, we had loads of sandwiches and coffee because we were always on the go. I definitely enjoyed our sit down meals and afternoon tea as well. Writing about this makes me hungry. I already miss M+S tea cakes and elderflower presse… Why don’t they have these things in America? I’m going to check out World Market to see if they have the presse, but I’m probably out of luck.

Paris, France. It’s only been a day since I left and I already miss this place. This summer has been so memorable. Studying abroad and visiting Paris was definitely a life changing experience.

Goodbye London. My stay was too short… but now it’s time to explore Paris!

Now Showing in Edinburgh: Deathly Hallows Part Two. I wish I could come out and see it! When we went to the National Museum a few days ago, the class took a lunch break and a few of us went across the street to the Elephant House (where I guess J.K. Rowling used to come in and write the Sorcerer’s Stone). Besides the good food, I found a cool Harry Potter toilet!

Edinburgh, Scotland. So let me take a break from posting about England… It’s beautiful here! I can’t wait to do mass photo posts of my trip, but that won’t be happening until I go back home in August. Today we went to the National Museum of Scotland where a curator and someone from a design firm talked to us. I’m soooo tired, but tomorrow we’re going to Glasgow!

English weather, why so gloomy? Clock by a little shopping area in York.

York, England. One of the owls outside Topshop & Marks and Spencer.