A Newly Relocated Londoner’s Guide To Oxford High Street.
Essentials:
- Mobile Phone. And a cheap as shit London sim card, which probably takes about 2 minutes to organise.
- Bottle of water.
- Visa Debit Card. And your passport incase the sales assistants don’t believe you could own your own debit card.
- London A-Z (tube map is included).
- Starbucks Venti Chai Tea Latte. Wet, on soya milk.
- An understanding that the concept of personal space is practically eradicated from your physiological predisposition.
Additionals:
- Another Starbucks Venti Chai Tea Latte. Wet, on soya milk.
Pros:
- The surplus of low-cost flannels, leather jackets (and ‘leather’ jackets), skinny jeans, ‘basics’ and the ever elusive ‘must-have’ rayban-esque glasses.
- A fair bit of transatlantic eye candy (whatever tickles your ocular fancy).
- Being able to walk into the Apple Flagship on Regent Street and get free internet for as long as you want.
- Borders supplying the best international fashion magazines.
- Three Zara stores within a two block radius.
- The wafting smell of waffles with chocolate sauce from the sporadic vendor.
- Urban Outfitters, All Saints and Topman (Top Shop and Miss Selfidges for the ladies).
- Walking into Prada pretending like you will buy the store, but don’t like the product enough to end up buying it.
- Starbucks Venti Chai Tea Latte. Wet, on soya milk.
Cons:
- The transatlantic candy that you would rather give to your grandmother than put in your mouth.
- The fact that your personal space, as you know it, ceases to exist.
- Immediately regretting to decision to walk from Top Shop to Primark because ‘there’s a lot to see on the way’.
- Not being able to take drinks into Zara. Seriously. What the hell. It’s not like I’m a 3 year old, spraying my formula as far as I can spit.
- Those international magazines costing the equivalent of two cheap meals, and doing the math.
- Knowing that any near-by tube stop you want to go into will inevitably lead you into the churning sea of tourists also trying to navigate their way in or out of the area.
- Running out of money before you get another Starbucks Venti Chai Tea Latte. Wet, on soya milk.
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my entire 10 days worth of London perfectly simplified into one blog. x
nice observations…..
;o)