Gubbröra and Hunger Games

Yesterday me and Peter went to have brunch at Cooper & Wolf, a café with a Swedish menu a couple of blocks from us. 

We went for gubbröra on sourdough bread, freshly squeezed orange juice and coffee. It's so weird to think of old, odd Swedish food being trendy here.

Afterwards we walked down to Homerton station and passed this amazing window! I wonder what that room looks like from the inside.

After rummaging around Westfield shopping centre, which is like Europe's largest, we decided to go to the cinema. We saw the last Hunger Games movie which was okay, not great, but at least much better then the last one.

By the way, for those of you who are Swedish; starting tomorrow I'm gonna do some guest posting at @endometriosforum_sverige's Instagram about my own experiences, the history of endo and lots of other stuff for a whole week! Follow me, will you?

Hackney Attic, 6 months!

The blog turns 6 months today! It feels both longer and shorter in an odd way. To celebrate I thought we were going to take a look at how the flat has changed since before we moved in and what it been looking like over the months.

This is the pictures that I found on Rightmove and it was these, the price and the location that made us call, go to a viewing and decide to go for it, in only two days. Double the time it took us to get our previous flat for which we signed the contract 24 hours after landing in London...

Some of the first pictures I took of the flat, the first months after we moved in. Quite empty, but oh how you miss summer when you look at them. 

We decided to tear out the plastic carpet in the kitchen cause underneath it was a wooden floor that we later painted white. Here's after the first layer where I didn't bother to move the fridge or stove.

Some of the most recent pictures. But we're constantly changing bits and bobs and the livingroom already looks quite different. Plus we're thinking of treating ourselves with a new bed for Christmas. One that actually has room for both of us (apparently I'm taking up way too much space according to P). 

Throwback to when we visited the V&A

I found a bunch of old photos from when we visited the V&A that I don't think ever got posted. See the original post here.

Black Friday

All pictures are from my Great clothes map on Pinterest.

A London Christmas

One month left til Christmas! This year me and P are staying in London over the holidays since we’re saving our money and days off work for our upcoming Cambodia trip. I’m actually looking forward to a quiet Christmas with friends and our foster dog. It’ll be the first time we’ll have her for a week in a row. We will take long walks around Hackney, visit outdoors Christmas markets and make a trip to Hampstead Heath. I’ve also – and this is so dorky – booked tickets for me and P to go and see the Harry Potter Studio tour in mid december. Hogsmeade in fake snow, mmm...

The one thing I’m gonna miss by not going to Sweden apart from family and friends is the Swedish Christmas food. P:s mum brought Swedish cheese, gingerbread cookies and saffron shortbreads when she visited this weekend (thank you!!!) but I’ll have to go to Ikea to stock up on Swedish mulled wine, herring and hard bread. Food's definitely my favorite thing about Christmas. What's yours? 

From St Paul's to Big Ben to the White Rabbit

After we failed going up in the Shard we continued our tourist tour and since Peter's brother hadn't been to London we went via St Paul's cathedral to Trafalgar square to Big Ben and Westminster. By then it was dark and even colder so we took a taxi back to Shoreditch and had espresso martinis and Irish coffees at The Bridge. When it was dinner time we headed north to Dalston and White Rabbit, a quite fancy schmancy restaurant where we completely misunderstood the menu and ended up with dishes with only meat or fish and nothing on the side. It was good anyway and we made it up with two bottles of wine. And that was that very excellent Saturday.

Cats, squirrels, hens and ducks

 

Yesterday me and P guided P:s mum and brother through London fields, Broadway market and Hackney city farm. Then we took the bus down to London bridge and Borough market where we had some mulled wine and lunch. It was so very cold, like ice cold. I'm still cold from even thinking about how cold it was. Let's hope it's just temporary. We had planned to visit the cocktail bar at the Shard to get a view of London from above but apparently we weren't dressed well enough. Such bs. 

I took so many pictures I had to split the day in two, so this is part one. To be continued.