Timon van Gent

At last, we arrived at the Lush shop on Oxford Street. And what a shop it was. It has three stories with the size of more than twenty Lush Ghent shops. I won’t lie, it wasn’t just for my wife, I like the soaps and shampoos as well. So it was a nice experience, but quite overwhelming. Think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but then with all the bathroom products you can imagine and then a few more. Not only the size and the products of the shop were overwhelming, I think there were over twenty employees present. At times I suspect there were more employees than customers. All twenty of them eager to help you and tell you about their field of expertise. After the seventh “oh, I’m just here for my wife, she’s over there”, I became very self-aware… Okay, I might be exaggerating a tad, everyone was very nice and friendly, but still. Perhaps Lush could hand-out a badge at the entrance to indicate that you’ve been helped or that you’re just browsing. So about an hour and a half (whi

Welcome back! To continue, we arrived a minute before noon at the large, but beautiful St Pancras Station (not to be mistaken for "pancreas", that’s something else). It took us about half an hour to exit the station, top up our oyster cards and find the right underground train. Not long after we were already walking on Oxford Street. Not the nicest street in London, but just one of those typical (huge) shopping streets that you find in large cities all over the world. However, if you like shopping and in particular shops from major chain, then this is the place for you. Shop, shop, ‘till you drop (almost literally, because it is a very long street). Luckily for our health, we weren’t there for the ‘regular’ chains, so we lived on to tell another tale. Actually, we had only one thing on our minds: “Lush”. (I say we, but you understand the subtext right?) Habitual readers of this blog, should know what Lush is, but if not, you can use this . Because this specific Lush

A while ago, I wrote about our honeymoon to Lisbon , with the purpose of perhaps inspiring other travellers. Now that we’ve been to London, I thought, why not do the same again? If a travel company reads this, feel free to sponsor us and I’ll make it a series about Europe’s capitals and beyond! Before you leave for London, there are a number of practical things you need to consider. How to get there, where to stay and what kind of transport to use there. Now I won’t discuss all the options available, but just what we did and whether it felt like a good idea or not. To get to London, we used Eurostar. I know, probably not the cheapest option, but if you want to go and leave/arrive at a specific time and you generally don’t plan trips a year in advance (like us), it is alright. We paid €120 for everything, but we neatly arrived on a Wednesday at 12 o’clock and left at 6 o’clock p.m. on Friday without any hassle. For getting around in London, we borrowed 2 Oyster cards instea