Picadilly Street, Picadilly Circus, Fortnum & Mason!
Hello there! Sorry to leave you my dear blog. :P
I will talk first about Piccadilly Street and later about this tea store Fortnum & Mason.
OK, I watched in Brasil a news item about this store and I thought it was very fancy, so I dedicated yesterday for a walk in Piccadilly.
I started by the Green Park station then in my way was a gallery of Vintage jewelry, and a lot of jewelry stores (See the amazing pictures). After that I found the Royal Academy of Arts with 2 expositions. A paid one about Johan Zofany for 10£ and a free one about "LithORRgraphy" by Chris Orr Ra. Finaly I arrived in front of FORTNUM & MANSION. In the news they said that it is a furnisher of tea for the Queen.
The employees wear tuxedos sooooooo ...
Now the store is decorated for the Queen Jubilee. I bought 2 kinds of tea, Marrocan Mint and Apple. I spent 11,00£. I really reccomend this store.
After that they had some restaurants and St James Church where I found a fair with some antiquities and I bought type letters Art deco style. K and G, initials of my name and my husband's name. I paid 10 £, I think. In Notthing Hill I can find them cheap. And at the end you will find Piccadilly Circus, crazy and crowded.
What is Piccadilly Circus?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster, built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction.
Piccadilly now links directly to the theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue, as well as the Haymarket, Coventry Street (onwards to Leicester Square), and Glasshouse Street. The Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in the West End. Its status as a major traffic intersection has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting place and a tourist attraction in its own right. The Circus is particularly known for its video display and neon signs mounted on the corner building on the northern side, as well as the Shaftesbury memorial fountain and statue of an archer popularly known as Eros (sometimes called The Angel of Christian Charity, but intended to be Anteros). It is surrounded by several noted buildings, including the London Pavilion and Criterion Theatre. Directly underneath the plaza is Piccadilly Circus tube station, part of the London Underground system.
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Hi there!
ReplyDeleteI really ♥ everything about Fortnum & Mason.
"Where there's tea there's hope!" :)
I miss you, sweetheart! Hahaha!
Cheers!
Tita