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eXploring LonDon... Hampstead


We've been lying low on travelling as it's winter so what else better than to explore London! Many people have told me Hampstead is absolutely beautiful with the big mansions and where many stars live so I thought we should go take a look!

I googled it and found this interesting article on Hampstead.. what's most interesting to me is the list of people living there currently. Big names like Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hugh Grant, Jude Law (!!), etc. When I told Cyn about this, her first question was "Must we dress up then??!" hahaha (and she really meant it.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead

Alicia and Jianliang, also recently on a "project discover London" decided to join us and Alicia heard from her cousin that there is this awesome crepe place in Hampstead. wow food (I thought we were gonna see mansions?) but well being Singaporeans... 0_0

ok weather for the day.. freezing cold. Not very advisable to take long walks.. we walked around a bit, but were not sure where exactly are the huge and beautiful houses (Hampstead is huge) altho we did see a few along the way.. and soon we found ourselves looking for that crepe place instead. When we found it, realised it's just a stall and not a sit down cafe and the Q was so long... guess it must be good then. 20min later (yes in the freezing cold still).. we ordered 2 sweet nutella crepes and 2 savoury - garlic mushroom with ham and cheese.. and omg omg OMG.. the savoury crepe was so yummy, I think it's the best crepe I've eaten in my life, no joke! All of us couldn't stop eating and agreed this crepe is THE highlight of the day.. not the houses or whatever we were planning to see. hahaha so Singaporean I know! Anywhere with good food and we forget the rest huh.

 


Queueing up we were so excited; I think my smile was frozen after standing in the cold for a good few minutes.





We walked somemore while eating and made our way to Hampstead Heath where is it a huge park and we still saw remnants of monday's snow on the grassland. The lake was absolutely frozen. Yes it is very cold still.. brrr.... JL couldn't take it and kept suggesting us walking back and find a cafe to thaw in. And so we decided to come back in the summer.. maybe for a picnic or something!






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