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| Follow the signs and you should be able to find it; it's only 5 minutes away from Camden Town Station. |
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| Poppies Fish & Chips (Address: 30 Hawley Crescent; Opening hours: Mon-Sat, 10am-12mn; Sun 11am 11pm) |
As you can see, Poppies is most famous for their fish and chips!
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| Reading the very nicely designed menu |
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| Fish and chips with whitebait |
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| Half chicken |
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| You can tell from our faces that we loved the food!! |
I highly recommend getting the fish and chips. We also loved the whitebait fish chips so much that we got a whole plate of it! So yummy!
After brunch, we took the Northern Line (black) to King's Cross Station.
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| King's Cross Station |
We were here for two reasons:
- To collect our train tickets to Edinburgh from the self-help ticketing machines
- To shop at Platform 9 and 3/4!
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| The Harry Potter Shop at Platform 9 and 3/4 |
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| Bird cages hung on the ceiling |
We didn't have time to visit the Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studios so I had to contend with taking a photo with the famous half-disappeared trolley here instead.
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| We were also provided with a soft copy of our photo I bought. Not too bad for the price we paid. |
I usually don't buy souvenir photos but this was just too good to give up! Love it!
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| My loot from my 1-hour shopping at Platform 9 and 3/4! Had to hold myself back so that I don't go broke! |
I highly recommend visiting this shop for Potter fans! The stuff is a lot cheaper than Universal Studios 😄
When we were finally done, we headed to Hyde Park via the Piccadilly Line (blue) to Hyde Park Corner Station.
We were here to visit the annual Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park.
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| Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park, with a ferris wheel, shops and carnival rides and games |
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| Such a fun atmosphere! |
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| It's not often that we get to visit a carnival in cold weather! |
There were lots of activities like ice skating, circus performances, ice sculpture display and even an ice bar!
Although I really wanted to try the ice bar, we got tickets to the Zippos Circus instead. It cost us only £8.50 per adult and £5 per child, which was so worth it because we managed to get front row seats to an amazing show!
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| Zippos Circus |
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| Live magic show! |
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| Acrobats doing their incredible stunts |
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| Centre stage |
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| Walking on the outside of a spinning wheel without use of harness! This guy was incredible! |
After the show, the girl and I ran to the Ice Rink as we had also booked a session of ice skating for both of us. It cost us £9.50 per adult and £7.50 per child.
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| Collecting our skates |
We were really excited to try skating outdoors for once! I have always gone ice skating in indoor ice skating rinks and never got a chance to ice skate outdoors in a park!
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| The ice skating rink was nicely decorated with lots of lights |
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| Us in our skates |
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| The girl holding the side of the rink for support |
I have to say that I was proud of my girl for at least trying to skate for 15 minutes without holding the side of the rink or any other help. Considering that this was only her second time skating, it was quite good! ☺️
When our hour was up, we went to look for the hubby and mum, who were hanging out at the Carousel Bar. Like its name suggests, the bar is on a rotating carousel which moves in a circle while you sip your drinks. I have never seen anything like it! So cool!
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| The carousel bar, with a heated area to help you deal with the cold |
It started to get late (and very cold) so we returned to our hotel. On the way back, we stopped by the nearest Wagamama to our hotel for dinner.
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| Wagamama |
The mum and I had enjoyed Wagamama very much during our last trip so we wanted the hubby to try it as well. Sadly, this outlet did not deliver the same taste that we had anticipated. We were pretty disappointed 😞
In any case, it was still a good day 😁
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