One of the things that was highest up on Linnea's list of things she wanted to do in London, was going shopping. Shopping for brands she cannot find here in the UAE, but mostly shopping for books. She had done her research and our first stop after having reached our hotel and dumped our suitcases Saturday afternoon, was the massive Waterstones bookshop on Piccadilly.
This is actually not only England's but EUROPE'S largest bookshop, with almost 13 km of bookshelves!
We spent a significant amount of time in here. So long that even I got tired in the end after having browsed all the art books, and had to find an armchair to wait for Linnea to finish.
But this visit to Waterstones also included a fire alarm and an evacuation. And as we hadn't paid for our books yet, we had to patiently wait outside with all the other customers, until it was all cleared and we were allowed to enter again.
A very happy girl, with a whole canvas bag FULL of books!
We found many Christmas trees, and did a lot of Christmas shopping. Mostly we were on the hunt for Christmas presents, but of course we also got some treats for ourselves here and there.
Loved taking the bus, sitting on the top deck of the double deck buses right under all the Christmas lights!
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