A Borrowers Life : Travel

Monday, 30 May 2016

The Royal Windsor Horse Show | OOTD

Welcome back guys, last Sunday I went to The Royal Windsor Horse Show accompanied by the lovely Ellie from GingerandVintage. The horse show is a much loved event by the Queen and is in her diary each year, for me coming from the north I have only ever seen parts of the vent on the TV but this year I was able to end myself.

Before we left I was losing my mind over what to wear, this would be and event with a real mix of people attending, did I mention the Queen would be there? Picking what to wear for this day was a real dilemma, I couldn't go shopping for a new outfit because we decided to go the day before, well prepped I know... But anyway this is what I wore.

Faux suede dress | Primark £10

Coat | Miss Selfridges, Gift

Rabbit Blouse | H&M £14.99

Tights | Primark £2.50

Shoes | Topshop £2.50

Sunglasses | H&M £3.99

Bag | Primark £5

Pearl Bracelet | Gift

Nomination bracelet | Gift

The atmosphere at the show was amazing, I wasn't expecting it, me and ellie went into the main arena, at around 14:30 and stayed all day until the events finished, my favourite events were the Pony Club and the House Hold Calvary Musical ride. There were food vans everywhere, and people walking around selling strawberries and cream and lots of shops/stalls to wander around and have a look at. My day was made when Prince Phillip drove his carriage past us, we were sat opposite the royal box this was a complete coincidence but then the Queen went in the box. All in all it was a an amazing day, with great food and lots of new experiences and we are already planning to go back next year, I hope you enjoy this post, sorry some of the pictures are low quality.

Enjoy.

Food Place Favourite | Noodle Stop

Living in London, no matter where you go you are surrounded by culture and another important think, food! Yes thats right food, and of course food and culture go hand in hand to create so many culinary delights. Since I have been here I have eaten out a lot and I'm not going to lie, McDonalds is practically my second home like many other students I know; but I have decided to to blog some of the other places in London you may not of heard of before. My first post will be on The Noodle Stop in Leicester Square.

So guys sit back while I set the scene: Image its Monday 7th of May, I have numerous university deadlines for this day, one of which isn't finished, and at 5pm I'm supposed to be in Waterloo watching Captain America Civil War. My friends had already ventured out to spend the day in central London. At around three I submitted my work and left to meet them.

Once in Leicester Square I received a few texts explaining where my friends were and after spinning in circles and looking like a tourist I finally found The Noodle Stop. Upon seeing the building I was slightly disappointed from the outside, it looked slightly run down, missing letters from the sign. After some time I decided to try the food, its really simple, you pick the size box you want and then you pick either rice or noodles then pick the meat and sauce you want. For me I got vegetable noodles and sweet and sour chicken, I got a regular size for £5.50 and it kept me full all day I loved it. This place is the classic tale of not judging a book by its cover. I recommend this shop if you are in need of food quickly.

Id like to apologise about the quality of this image because I had no idea I was going to be using it as a blog post.

Enjoy

Beginnings Of Sumer OOTD

If you live in the UK then you may have noticed that the weather has picked up so much over the past couple of weeks. So I took the opportunity to go for a walk through Hyde Park, Iv seen lots of little bits of Hype Park when iv been to London before, but never really ventured far in. Since I live so close now, I packed up my camera and went exploring with another blogger; Ellie from gingerandvintage here is what I wore on our little trip. One thing I must say is I really didn't think the temperature was going to rise as high as it did, maybe I would of changed my outfit up a bit if I did.

**I would just like to mention, if you notice,

some of my photos are slightly out of focus, this is because

recently there has been a decline in my eyesight.

I thought the pain from straining my eyes was down

to the migraines I have suffered with every day for 7 years,

turns out its not. I actually have an eyesight issue,

but my glasses will be here soon so please bare with me for the next few weeks,

as I have had scheduled posts for a while.**

Princess Diana Memorial Fountain

Obligatory mirror selfie with Ellie

Outfit:

-Shirt dress, Ark (Christmas present)

-Faux fur gilet, New Look

-Jeans, New Look (I put the rips in myself)

-Shoes, Nike

Hat, H&M

I love this shirtdress that my brother bought me for christmas and have been dying for the weather to warm up so I can wear it, because I'm a wimp when it comes to winter and cold weather so I always wrap up; so I took this as an opportunity to show my love for it.

I wanted to wear my plain black slip-ons but the day before I decided to wear in some new shoes and they rubbed too much meaning my Nikes were the only comfortable option, but I do love them and for only £17.50 they are well worth it.

I have had these jeans foe around 7-8 years (I know right?!?!) and once they started to lose their fit, I added the rips so I can continue to wear them.

The gilet was £17.99 on sale in New Look, it was so much softer than I thought it would be.

We took so many photos on this day that I will do a separate post of our adventure around the park, stay tuned for that.

Enjoy

Follow My Feet | Adventure in Richmond

A few weeks ago I was feeling so restless, before starting university work I decided to go for a walk in the local park to clear my head. After getting outside I decided against the park because I have been so many times, so I began walking in the opposite direction. Skip forward about an hour and a half later and I had walked into Richmond.

Within seconds I was in love, its on its on the Thames, I like the variety of shops and the pubs, you can sit on the side of the Thames and eat ice cream or sit in a beer garden and have food. There is a mix of franchise stores or one of boutiques and of course you could walk into Richmond Park. I didn't get chance to go to the park on that day but i will definitely going to be going back.

I will be visiting Richmond again tomorrow to show my friends around, I will be visiting the park as well and this taking my DSLR with me so i will be getting better pictures than these ones on my phone.

Enjoy!

Kensington Palace

I'm not going to lie, one of the reasons I was most excited about moving to London was being able to visit all of the well known tourist spots as well as opening my eyes to all of the other lesser known but equally amazing spots. I think its the travellers daughter in me.

From all of the travelling I have done my favourite places have always been the more historical visits, especially castles and palaces, so finally after all of the months of living here, i finally rounded up some flat mates and visited Kensington Palace.

Kensington Palace is split into two parts, one part is private and houses some members of the current royal family members, while the other is the historical state apartments of past royals. The palace boasts beautiful spacious apartments, the different apartments include, Victoria Revealed, Fashion Rules, The Queens State Apartments and The Kings State Apartments.

Unfortunately Fashion rules was closed when we went so we missed The modern royals and their fashion section, but on the upside it means I can go back for another visit.

I didn't get as many photographs as I thought I had but here are the ones I got, so enjoy.