London, Notting Hill Carnival

   Hey pessoal! Decidi fazer umas pequenas alterações no meu site. Como qualquer blogger que se preze estamos sempre a imaginar coisas novas para o nosso pequeno espaço (cantinho) chamado blog! Pois bem, o layout já foi mais uma vez alterado, mas em termos de conteúdo achei que poderia partilhar um pouco mais dos meus gostos a nível de restaurantes, locais que gosto e das minhas viagens. :) Assim, não se torna apenas um espaço de reviews e lookbooks. FIY é um blog de moda, style, lifestyle e inspiração, e, como tal, vou querer criar rúbricas periódicas e de carácter pessoal. O que acham?

  Recently I was taking a look at Fashion Inspires You and started thinking about a few changes. The layout is a little different now (big thanks to Kotryna) but I also thought that I wanted to change the posts I share with you! I don’t want it to be a blog that just featured reviews after reviews or lookbooks after lookbooks! FIY is about fashion, style but also lifestyle inspiration! I intended it to be a personal space as well as a place to inform people about the latest Restaurants, my favourite places, travelling and so on. So with that in mind I’ve decided to regularly feature a post of a more personal nature so my readers can get to know me better.

Hoje começo com um dos posts sobre Londres.

No dia 28 de agosto viajei com a Bristish Airways para Heathrow. Daí e com o cartão Oyster fui de metro até ao hotel no centro de Londres. Aconselho-vos a usarem sempre os transportes públicos pois são o melhor meio. Carreguei-o com £20 para não estar sempre a carregar. Viagens nas horas de ponta são sempre mais caras por isso aconselho-vos a se informarem das melhores horas.

I have once posted about my holidays in Samana and a lot of you enjoyed my tips so this time I will tell you a bit about my trip to London and will start with Notting Hill Carnival. I arrived in London Heathrow flying with British Airways on the 28^th August. From there to the Hotel I took the underground  buying an Oyster card. You can pay with cash or credit/debit card, I usually recharge it with 20£. If you use it off peak to central London it’s about £3,40 from Heathrow,  if it’s Peak you’ll pay £5.40.

Na segunda feira resolvemos ir até Notting Hill passear, fotografar e almoçar num restaurante que tinha curiosidade e que se chama Farm’s Girl! 

Não sabíamos que era feriado nem do quê mas arriscámos. Na saída do metro em Noting Hill a confusão era tanta que assustava e eram apenas umas 10.30 da manha!

 Entrámos por uma das ruas mais sossegadas e aí  disseram-nos que aquela confusão era do Carnaval ou seja o último dia de Carnaval em Noting Hill. Resultado: ruas cortadas, restaurantes fechados saída do metro fechada…. Enfim regressámos a pé atravessando o Hyde Park todo, imaginem foram só 14 km a andar nesse dia! O  bom: o dia estava maravilhoso, quentinho e solarengo coisa rara in the UK!

Fica a dica: Noting Hill, sim! No Carnaval, não!

On Monday (29^th August) we decided to go to Noting Hill  for some photo shooting and to have lunch at the Farm’s Girl. For our surprise someone was telling that some shops were closed due to the bank holiday. Nontheless we decided to take the risk and of we went! You cannot imagine the crowds coming out of the Tube in Notting Hill station! Everyone screaming, policemen all over the place... We could hardly move so we turned into one of the streets and asked what was all that fuss about.  Imagine, the last day of  Noting Hill Carnival! 

Here you have a glimpse of the photo shooting on those beautiful colorful houses that you can find all around Noting Hill, Portobello Road and other steets.

Unfortunately, Farm’s Girl was closed and the Tube station to go back was also closed for secury reasons. We had to walk all back through Hyde Park up  to Carniby Street (about 14km). 

Great news: The weather was incredibly nice, sunny and warm!

Sunglasses HERE | Dress HERE | Sandals HERE

Photos  and Eng Text by: @cristinagemelgo