InMe & London Chills

A while ago InMe announced their Overgrown Butterfly tour where they would be playing their first two albums in full. Both my boyfriend and I are fans, so we decided we just had to go even though it would mean a pricey trip to London!


After checking into our hotel in Islington (Central Station Hotel), we went to Oxford Street purely for Disney Store for Tsum Tsums. I also wanted to go to Drop Dead, but the shop looked so tiny so I was an idiot and was too self-conscious to go inside! But it was down this pretty alley.


Then to Islington O2! We ran out of time to go eat because we didn't want to miss Dorje, who turned out to be really good! I don't think Rob liked the vocals, but I liked them anyway.


We may have spent too much money on crappy Somersby...


InMe! Sadly I couldn't see well at all and was too sensible to try to enter the pit this time because I'm just too small. Boo! But it was a really great show, one of the best I've ever been to, I think. I just love both albums so much because I've been listening to them for 10 years now!


We were bad and grabbed drunken McDonald's on the way back to the hotel instead of eating anything nice.


After eating complimentary breakfast at the hotel, we headed out to explore London. Leicester Square was our first stop, with a look around all the cute things in Chinatown and a bubble tea stop.


Next we had chill time in Jubilee Gardens for a while to enjoy the unexpected good weather! I could have sat there all day.


We then wandered over to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey for a look about.


And apparently Japan Matsuri was going on in Trafalgar Square, but it looked way too busy so we avoided it and went to Forbidden Planet instead. Where I spent too much money but could have easily spent tons more...and then had a sit down at Embankment Place.


We wanted to go to a Korean restaurant for dinner but it didn't open until 6, so went for a pint in The Green Man before heading to Paddington for a burrito! Had a really good day, but we were both exhausted and achy by the time we got the train!


My haul! The InMe shirt ended up being too small despite being a mens medium -_-Plus the price jumped from £5 on entry to £10 when I went to buy it! But the CD was free, I guess. Clow key and Koro Koron Hamster are from The Kawaii Kollective in Chinatown, Tsums and Pop vinyl from Disney Store, Sailor Moon card holder, Pinkie Pie, and Catbug are from Forbidden Planet. It's a good job I'm not closer to London as there are too many cute things and yummy foods everywhere!

Writing this post is making me miss London already, and we only got back on Saturday. I wish we'd gotten around to going to Covent Garden for gelato...

Hyper Japan, 2011 ~ Day in London

The last day in London was pretty stressful! We had to check out before 10am so we got dressed and packed up before going down for breakfast. We decided to go to Camden to check out the markets that everyone had been raving about. It took a while to find any places, but when we did it was pretty disappointing...all really ita rubbish for ridiculous prices! I was excited that they had Antaina shoes, but they were charging almost as much as I got for my practically new AP shoes. I also found a cute non-loli skirt in the GLP store, but it was £40 and the size L was too small. The shop lady was all sarky saying 'you aren't supposed to wear shorts under' (as I hadn't taken them off), but Aisha was using the only changing room they had and if it isn't going to fit on over my little shorts then it isn't going to fit at all. I was pretty disgusted. If I'm bigger than an L, what the hell size was the S for?

We checked out a few other places but they all had the same overpriced tat. Stopped for lunch and I ate dohnuts as I didn't fancy any of the greasy food on offer...most of it was Chinese food which I'm not keen on. There was also a really scabby pigeon! This also shows one of the horses that was there, they looked pretty aweome.


Afterwards we headed to Chinatown to see if there was anything cute there. These archways were so pretty and striking! They were also on Sherlock so I freaked out a bit when I found that out hehe. There was a load of delicious-looking food too, but I didn't want to waste my money so I didn't buy anything.




We also went past M&M World on the way there...I had no idea such a place existed O_o 4 floors of M&M merch...wow.


We also had our photo taken in a group here, but we all look so derpy! Aisha, me and Vicki. I felt kind of out of place, but I thought lolita would be annoying to wear about the city all day, especially since it was so warm!


At first we only saw restaurants, but eventually came across a cute market with tons of sweet little nick-nacks. I had to be hard on myself as I could have wasted a lot of money there! Aisha and I did purikura in the cheap machine (the real Japanese one was better and the only one in the country, but it was £4 extra each). We ended up spending over half an hour in there, much to Rob and Vicki's annoyance...but it was fun, and I've never had a chance to do anything like that before as my friends always used to go in photobooths on the occasions I wasn't there. So let's use this as proof that my face doesn't shatter cameras.


Ended up buying a cute hamster pin for my mum (it was her birthday this week) and a Pikachu phone strap to replace the one I lost when I lost my keys...could have bought so much more stuff though if I'd been less strict on myself!


By the time we'd finished we had to rush back! When on the tube Aisha realised that she'd left a bag back at the purikura place, so she left us to go back. The rest of us went to Burger King for tea (OMG REAL FOOD it was actually too much for me to eat since my stomach shrank from not eating much haha). Then we had to part ways...we hadn't realised that we had to leave from different tube stations! Ended up managing to get the 7.30pm train from Paddington back to Bath, irritating all the passengers on the way by playing Nyan Cat and Robot Unicorn Attack with the sound on. Was really happy to get back to Rob's, where I could have all the tea I could drink and more privacy! I didn't get back home properly until the next day.

And now I am home, I'm pretty bored and missing London. There was so much there to do! I don't miss the stingy eyes however (the air REALLY didn't agree with me, I was walking around blindly crying most of the time in Hammersmith). I really hope I get to go to London again and would love to go to Hyper Japan again too, although since it's the Olympics next year I probably won't be able to go until 2013 =[


And so concludes my catch-up of Hyper Japan! So sorry it took such a long time ^_^'