Me and Carl have done London together a few times now, moving Laurie into her home, Wembley trips and a few more various flying visits…but we’ve never really done a proper, typical London weekend. So for this early May Bank Holiday, that was the plan.

This time we ditched the car and booked the train through Trainline, using our Two Together Railcard which gets us a third off fares when we travel together. And Manchester to London is only around two hours, which was just enough time for lunch and a couple of cocktails in a can on the way. 😂

We arrived to train delays and Tube lines being off, which messed up my planned to a tee itinerary. But we dealt with this terrible hardship by finding a bar and waiting it out.

Later than expected we made it over to Shoreditch and checked into The Hoxton, a really cool without trying too hard to be cool vibe and it was the perfect base for the first night of our stay.

Of course there was an itinerary…this is me we are talking about😂 and so Saturday night was dinner at the Llama Inn London, a rooftop Peruvian restaurant followed by a little look at what The Blues Kitchen Shoreditch had to offer. Llama, the food was gorgeous, the cocktails were flowing and the London weekender had very much began.

On sunday we dropped our bags at Laurie’s because she and Conor were away, saving us a small fortune on another London hotel night, then we headed to St Paul’s for Sunday Mass before our very important appointment at The Goldwood pub to watch United play Liverpool. (United 3–2 Liverpool, with Mainoo scoring the winner) so I was a very happy girl before we’d even started on the Covent Garden drinks with the exception of Carl singing United cant play without you, wrong repeatedly. (FML)

We did London properly too, taking the Tube, walking and for most journeys we jumped on the Uber Boat by Thames Clippers along the Thames, which is actually a brilliant way to get around and do a bit of sightseeing at the same time. Unfortunately I chose this same weekend to trial my brand-new Birkenstocks, so by Monday my feet looked like they’d been through a war. Blisters and blood EVERYWHERE. 😭

Monday’s itinerary was easy going, get up, eat and go home.

London was brilliant, the weather was gorgeous and we packed loads into one Bank Holiday weekend. But I think we spent somewhere around £800 for the two of us, even with a free night at Laurie’s and Conors thrown in!

We could have had a few nights in the Ibiza sun for that.

Maybe next time!!