This trip, I refuse to accept shopping lists from the friends because I don't want to carry 20 bags (from indie and designer labels) home even on a 40 kg luggage limit. I will only lug bags back for about 10 people I love. Out of 10, 5 live in Europe! The rest go up to Europe more often than I do. I need them for favors more than they need me! Oof. I had no problems going out to get items that could be shipped back directly from boutique to Singapore, especially if the shops are along the way to wherever I'm going. It made my life easy.
More than shopping, I love London for the shops selling art supplies and books.
For those clever ones who asked to buy art supplies, I merrily said yes. There are so many shops selling a wonderful array of art supplies. I really wouldn't mind going out of my way to find them because I'm also curious about them. I decided on Cornelissen & Son and went to grab everything and shipped them back to the respective owners-to-be.
For books, I usually buy them from Bauman and am not familiar with the shops in London. So it was quite a pleasure visiting book stores. My nose was buried for hours at the shops along Charing Cross. In particular, I was searching for first editions of a couple of favorite books. They're not deemed too rare, I guess. I want to get them before the prices shoot up in the next decade or when the author dies. I found them at Nigel Williams. Some are priced astronomically, while some are most reasonable. Well, not so if you consider that some bags are priced higher than rare books.
And ouch, the credit card suffered a huge dent from purchasing books.
3 comments:
There are quite some antique bookstores here too. I've never stepped into one cos I still do not prefer to read in Swedish, but this post makes me want to sniff the books simply because I like the smell of old books!
Charing cross - I have gotten some beautiful old books for less than 5 pounds!
kikare: go step in and browse! it's lovely. it's like stepping into different worlds and getting lost within. you know what i mean.
dawn: they've really cheap books there! even new books at borders and WH Smith are so much cheaper. Awesome buys. I cannot believe our luggage weight are going to books.
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