Harrods, Cupcakes and Chocolate Elephants, Day 22

How is that I seem to fall in love with London more and more each day? Perhaps this is due to the fact that today I passed store fronts covered in floral wallpaper, walked down a street where big huge shiny pink reindeer and heart shaped “love” balloons floated above my head, and ate frilly pink glittery cupcakes that tasted better than anything I’ve ever eaten in my life? Yah, that’s probably it.



A friend and I took a very exciting adventure to Harrods, Regent and Carnaby Street today. When I first saw Harrods, I couldn’t quite believe it. The store takes up a whole block. It reminded me of very much of Holt Renfrew on Bloor Street in Toronto, except much more posh and way, WAY bigger. We ventured into the “food hall” first where we saw rows and rows of chocolate (I almost died) and amazing cakes. We got lost in the maze of furniture on the home décor floor (we saw huge gold beds and small throw pillows for £900…that’s $1,800 for a square of fabric with the FENDI logo on the front…I almost fainted when I saw the price). I fell in love with dresses that were probably worth more than I’ll ever have in my bank account and looked at clothes that didn’t have any price tags on them (the idea is if you are even shopping in Harrods for clothes you can afford anything in the store, therefore price tags are unnecessary). I was exhausted walking out of there! We must have been wandering around in there for nearly two hours and we didn’t even see it all!


We then headed to Carnaby Street which is an extremely funky area (the Christmas decorations and floral store fronts say it all) which is filled with little boutiques on small cobblestone streets. We did a loop around to Oxford Street where we ended the day eating Lola's cupcakes in Selfridges. Lola's is by far my favourite place to be (no exaggeration whatsoever). Not only is Lola my favourite girls name, but the cupcakes are all hand crafted, beautifully decorated and made with natural ingredients. The tables all have little dried rose centrepieces and everything is bright and cheery. It really is the perfect place for a date I have decided. Anyways, enough about cupcakes.

On our way out of Selfridges, we passed a water section. I was looking at all the usual brands of fancy water (Voss, Fiji) when I saw a bottle being sold for £25 (that’s $50 for a bottle of water. I am not joking. It was a “limited edition” jug of water…who in the right mind would pay for that I don’t know). Although apparently that's nothing compared to the giant chocolate elephant that was being sold for £8,000. Would YOU buy a chocolate figurine (that would eventually rot) for $16,000? I don't think I could do it, even if I had that kind of money.