Little London break

So with it nearly being Christmas we decided a little break away Christmas shopping was just what was needed! Well I say Christmas shopping but I only bought myself stuff - whoops!

I was so ill the night before that I'm surprised I even made it. I think I spoke all of about 6 words on the car journey on the way down and whilst the family went from station to station in selfridges food hall deciding what food they where going to indulge in, I settled for a smoothie hoping it may bring me some much needed vitamins!

We parked the car up Saturday just a short walk from Paddington station and began our long day shopping! I actually spent next to nothing purely because I was just to ill to shop.. Yes I Ashley Rivett was too ill to shop around forever 21!?!? So I settled for a new pair of boots although I have to say I'm very happy with them, I did have to go through every pair to find my size and luckily grabbed the last size 4! My luck was beginning to change! Then I just picked a pair of black petite jamie jeans from topshop to wear that evening.

We stayed at the Paddington court hotel in a club room which was lovely! So much better than I expected. The room was modern and very clean and the receptionists made us feel very welcome. The bed was extremely comfortable and we all had a very good nights sleep. The location for us was perfect, we where just a short ten minute car journey from the shard and again from Westfield shopping centre for our plans for the next day.

There is a tiny little bar in the hotel which I was strongly fond of purely because my disaronno and cranberry I asked for was 3/4 disaronno and a splash of cranberry all for £4.50. Won me over big time there ha!

For dinner we headed out to the restaurant Roast. The place was wonderful, again plenty of alcohol was flowing and the food was delicious.

I had the T-bone steak with bone marrow and a little sausage meat pie. The peppercorn sauce was to die for!

My boyfriend had venison which again was delicious! We had apple crumble and almond and citrus cake for desert. We certainly left full!

Next up was the shard. I've always wanted to go and we where so close by that this was the perfect opportunity! Cocktails here we come!! The view is incredible, I could have stayed all night looking at that view and people watching, although I will say it was SO hot in that bar! Here are some pictures of the shard (unfortunately all are taken via my iPhone so not of the best quality)

Below are some items bought over the weekend... Not all of them are included because I will do some different blog posts. I've thrown in some extra photos from the whole weekend in general :)