Chelsea

Chelsea...part of the Kensington and Chelsea borough of London and apparently the most expensive place to live in England - Victoria road in particular where the average house cost is £6.4 million. Now, unfortunately this a little out of mine and Josh's budget...ok, a hell of a lot out of our budget, however it didn't stop me from enjoying the beautiful houses from the outside. I went a wandering while Josh went to check out an insanely pricey gym in the area (when a gym has it's own champagne bar you know it isn't going to be cheap!) and I happened to come across a street that caught my eye, mainly due to the variation in house fronts just along this small street;

It could be yours for a mere £1,850,000 - bargain!!

So away from the cute (and expensive houses), I went on to a cute street with equally expensive stores! Well, maybe not as expensive, but if Chanel is around the corner you know we're not talking pocket change for most!! I saw a few interesting stores, along with some that just looked like over priced gaudy things, but what I liked the most was again, the look of the street and the outside of the buildings - reminds me a little of Robertson Blvd. in LA;

I knew I would only have a little more time before Josh was done, so I made my way back towards a building we had passed on our way in to the area - Bibendum. Bibendum is a restaurant set within the the Michelin building. This was commissioned by the Michelin tire company as the first UK Headquarters in 1909 - the building was complete in 1911 and will therefore be celebrating it's 100th birthday this year. It's an amazing building to look at and whilst the restaurant makes up part of it, the other part is made up of the Conran Store. I only managed to get one picture of the outside (for now);

I'll admit, it doesn't do it justice, but you can get a general idea of it. Here's a link to the restaurant which give a brief history of the building along with some better picture!! http://www.bibendum.co.uk/the-building.html