A week later, I am FINALLY getting around to posting about street style at London's FNO.

My time in London made me realize how much I love living in the bay area, but fairly often there are days, like Monday, that I wish I was a short drive instead of a long (and expensive!) flight away.

The Notting Hill Carnival is a giant street parade in (you guessed it) Notting Hill, and in typical London style, street fashion was out of control.  Here are some of my favorites:

I don't think I quite realized how long five weeks away from home would be, especially given that a little more than two of them would be spent completely on my own. It's been really wonderful for me, as I have had the busiest year of my life with almost no time for myself - and now that's all I have! One of my goals for this trip was to try and center myself mentally, physically, and spiritually, so of course I joined a yoga studio. There's nothing like yoga to align all three of those things for me. 


After a Google search and recommendations from my soon to be yoga-instructor sister, I found Triyoga in Chelsea. They had a great £20 for two week deal, which is perfect! I've been to three classes so far, one restorative, one Kundalini, and one Yin class, and they have been heaven sent, honestly. I haven't done much yoga in my life, but I think just based on my happiness factor after I've walked out of both classes, this studio is absolutely worth a try. 

Today I went over to Primrose Hill for the Vintage Fashion London Fair. I wasn't totally sure what to expect, given that I don't often shop vintage and I found out about the event through Twitter, but I thought I'd give it a go! The event was at Cecil Sharp House, an old musty building, in a very quaint part of Primrose Hill. The actual fair was quite small, just one room, but it had a very nice selection of everything from the 1920's and on.

I have had some amazing food in London, but Tibits, where I had lunch today, absolutely takes the cake. Its a vegetarian buffet style restaurant off of Regent Street, so it's a little pricey, but absolutely worth it. I had an assortment of fruit, cooked veggies, tofu, rice, and potato wedges with orange and blackcurrant juice. Yum. I think I'll be coming back here quite often.

My favorite thing about London is how artistic the city is. Even the graffiti looks amazing. My favorite I've seen so far is at the Southbank and Brick Lane.

I go to London, my favorite city in the world, and I feel at home. -Boris Becker. 


Our first 24 hours in London have been great! Julia and I wandered our way through Covent Garden and ate some amazing food at the market.  We had dessert at Laduree (duh), and then finished the evening off with some window shopping at Topshop! A successful day battling jet lag.