Regent Street is one of the major shopping streets in London’s West End. Named after the Prince Regent (later George IV), John Nash is seen as the Architect behind the original Street but all his buildings with the exception of All Souls Church near the BBC were demolished. What you see today are buildings designed by Architects, in the “style of Nash”. Mistakenly thought to be as part of a ceremonial route from the Regent’s residence at Carlton House in St James’s to Regent’s Park, it was in fact the idea of John Fordyce, then Surveyor-General of the Dept of Woods and Forests (now The Crown Estate). Starting as Lower Regent Street at its intersection with Charles II Street and Waterloo Place, it runs north to Piccadilly Circus then becomes Regent Street by turning westward, and curves around in a quarter-circle until it is heading north once more. It then continues past Oxford Circus becoming Upper Regent Street and ends at its intersection with Langham Place, Cavendish Place and Mortimer Street.

A beautiful part of London which is a must of Shopperholics in London. Take the Oxford Circus tube station, which is on the Bakerloo, Victoria and Central line, and you will come out to the corner of Regent and Oxford. On this street you will find the famed Hamleys, once the biggest toy store in the world. A must go go Christmas shopping especially if you have little ones back home expecting a gift

There is a new mall in London, and its HUGE! On Sunday, after church and lunch, Sara and I decided we had to go and just see, even if we were not planning to do any more shopping. We took the Central line to Shepards Bush and as soon as we exited the station and turned right, there it was, the mamoth of a building.  We followed the crowd and soon found ourselves inside this big beautiful building with sky lights and chandeliars to boot. The design is very curvy, with very few sharp corners and there were many shops. There was one special segment called the Village which hosted all the super exclusive brand names such as Daniel Hersheson, De Beers, Dior, Hackett, Jo Malone, Kurt Geiger, Montblanc, Mulberry, Myla, Versace, Louis Vuitton and many many others. Its a good mix of high end of medium range retail shops and its a beautiful building, but with very few places for people to sit. Not that many food places though, so I suggest eating before going there. Worth a visit, just to say you have been there.

Harrods is a department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods.

The store occupies a 4.5-acre (18,000 m2) site and has over one million square feet of selling space in over 330 departments. This makes Harrods the largest department store in the world (the UK’s second-biggest store, Oxford Street’s Selfridges is a little over half the size with 540,000-square-foot (50,000 m2)[1] of selling space).

The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique —- All Things for All People, Everywhere. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Hall are world famous. The nearest tube station to the store is Knightsbridge. An entrance to the station is positioned adjacent to the store.

No trip to London would be complete without visiting this famous Landmark of Retail Therapy. We took the Underground to Knightsbridge and within minutes came out and saw the famous lights shining brightly. The place was very posh. Diamonds galore, famous brands of designer clothings. You name it they have it. There are also furniture and sporting items and I believe there even have a theater doing musical numbers. I saw a memorial for Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed in the lobby as well. You gotta come here if you come to London, though I doubt you should actually buy anything as prices are extremely high, even for England.

Sara needed a new pair of shoes badly. I kinda lost her black shoes when she left them with me over the last year, and she needed something a little more formal for work. Her other shoes where a wea bit to glam for the office, and thus we decided to take advantage of the Sale going on at 1 Utama. Apparently you get free parking every Wednesday for the entire sale period, which was great news for us. Even movies are only Rm7!

Anyways, we tried a few shops, and Sara explained to me what she was looking for, the colour, the style, the height of the heel, the way the shoe latched and such. We saw a few models she liked but alas, they didn’t have one in her size. Finally we arrived at Parkson and since we didn’t have much time before her movie, we split up and looked for a pair. I brought back the above for her inspection, and she loved them. Even the shoe counter girl was surprised to see me shop for shoes. I told the sales rep, can I have this shoe in the smallest size and pass it over to that girl over there.

Sara said , “Darling, your taste not bad. Must bring you shopping with me next time”. And to which I replied ,”Given the right parameters, anything can be done logically”. I am such a techno geek.

At One Utama, Opposite what used to be Dome is this little place which Sara and I adore. It serves a special dish among others called Rice Wine Chicken, at about Rm 20.90 for a pot which can serve from 2-3 people. If you like Bak Kut Teh, you will love this chicken!

Sara’s Rating :- 8.0 / 10.0
Nick’s Rating :8.2 / 10.0
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