I’m a Spaniard (I’m not really…)

Today I went to a Spanish festival. It was basically a day set up in London’s Regent Street by the tourist board (so I believe). It was very sports orientated, and if I’m  honest I was a bit disappointed as there was very little culture other than the sport. As far as Spanish food went, there was a massive Paella (could feed 1000 people apparently) which I couldn’t get a photograph of as I’m short and there were people standing in my way. Also, they were selling Chocolate and churros. As far as I'm aware, that was pretty much it lol! The little van they were selling from was really cute though:


There were Spanish horses, but they didn’t really do much other than prance around a pen.

They had performers, such as bands and a flamenco dancer dotted about the place on stages:

We got a little bored if I’m honest, but in all fairness it may have had something to do with the appalling weather.
So we had a little wander around the shops as we hadn’t been shopping in London for a while as a family. I managed to coerce my mum into buying me a maxi dress from UniQlo [well I gave her £5 towards it, but considering it cost £25, I think I did pretty well out of it:)]

We passed a really expensive cake shop which looked amazing!

When we walked down one of the side streets, we found ourselves amongst a Sikh freedom rally, which was really good to see so many people making a peaceful stand for what they believe in:

For lunch we had an Indian at a little restaurant called the Masala Zone, I think it was in Soho? [difficult to tell during daytime, if you get my drift ;)]. Apparently it’s a chain, but they were really nice and efficient. It tasted pretty awesome, and it was darn good value too! Well the food was, but the drinks were pricey. I had a Chicken Thali which is almost like an Indian tapas, well not really but that’s the best way of describing it! "The thali is a stainless steel platter with little bowls ("katoris") consisting of a wide variety of different dishes providing nutrition, texture, flavours and colours. it is the way indians have traditionally eaten at home for centuries." Apparently a thali is nutritionally complete and a healthy, balanced meal because of the balance in ingredients. There's the vegetables, protein from the meat, carbohydrates from the rice/chapatti etc [list on the website if you're that interested]

When we came out of the restaurant, we had a look in a cute little vintage shop. I fell in love with a nice 80s dress, but it was £350 so I think I can manage without that one!
Opposite the shop was a giant plug, I don’t know why, I guess it was some sort of modern art. It was weird but at the same time so cool:

I took my mum to a shoe shop “Irregular Choice”, which I had only seen concessions of in Schuh. I didn’t expect her to like it but she did, so we’re going to go back one day when we haven’t gone up to London in the rain wearing sandals!

The shop a couple of doors down from Irregular Choice made me laugh, they had to put the phonetic spelling next to it because apparently so many people made comments:

It was a shame about the weather, but overall it was a pretty good day out. Now back to the real world of revision and exams.
xx