• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Kerry Cooks

Recipes and inspiration from the sweeter side of life

  • Home
  • Rainbow Cake
  • Recipes
    • Rainbow Cake
    • Cookies and Cookie Dough
    • Cakes
    • Bars and Brownies
    • Brunch
    • Cupcakes
    • Nutella
    • No-Bake
    • Seasonal
      • Valentine’s Day
      • Easter
      • Summer
      • Autumn
      • Halloween
      • Christmas
    • Healthy Choices
    • Savoury Recipes
  • Baking 101
    • How to’s
    • Cupcake Academy
    • Baking Essentials
    • Baking cheat sheets
  • On the Side
    • Beauty
    • Reviews
    • Blogging
    • Things I love
  • Get in Touch
    • Work with Kerry
    • Disclosure

A Weekend in Hackney and Shoreditch

August 24, 2016 By Kerry Cooks Leave a Comment

IMG_4013

IMG_4015

In July I visited London for the weekend for a wedding!

We stayed in this Airbnb in Hackney Wick. FAR cheaper than a hotel, (the flat was £90 and a hotel we’d found in the area was £140) – I really loved the amazing green views of London and the incredibly comfy M&S bedsheets.

I’m excluding the amount that I’m now spending on M&S bedsheets for my own house from the savings above…

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Art N That (@artnthatuk)

Our flat was in Hackney Wick, a formerly industrial now super trendy bit of London with a pretty canalside area and lots of cool bars, galleries and restaurants.

IMG_4023

While we were there, we ate at Natura Pizza (located, tremendously helpfully, at the base of the flats we were staying in), a cool Italian pizza-pasta restaurant run by actual Italians – always an excellent sign!

The pizza (I never choose pasta, let’s just be honest) was really good, with buffalo mozzarella. I’m not ashamed to tell you that I ate THE WHOLE THING and it was the size of an actual car tire. #proud

IMG_4007

IMG_4033

The next day we begrudgingly left our lovely AirBnb and went for an amble through Victoria Park and along Regent’s Canal. It was blazingly hot and a gorgeous spot where you literally don’t feel like you’re in the middle of a massive metropolis.

Victoria Park is London’s oldest public park and apparently the most popular… it was definitely well-used with SO many ambitious (so hot!) runners, dog walkers and families ambling around.

IMG_4035

 This fountain was built with money donated by Victorian philanthropist Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts who was amazing. She was a hugely rich feminist who juggled managing Coutts bank with doing good all over the place, from founding the NSPCC to providing clean drinking water for the poor. She was the first woman ever to be awarded a peerage, and she finally got married in her 60s to her secretary, a man half her age who took her surname. Amazing!

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Alessandra Sorrentino (@ale_rosaspina)

After walking through the whole of the park and along Regent’s canal (so pretty! so busy!) we made a stop at Fabrique Bakery in Hoxton/Shoreditch for breakfast. Fabrique is reportedly home to the best cinnamon buns in London, and as I’m a cinnamon bun freak I had to try them out!

IMG_4039

IMG_4038

Naturally I got both a vanilla bun and a cinnamon bun, because that is the kind of balance I’m always striving for…  WEIRD thing though, I didn’t love the cinnamon bun at all. I much prefer my own recipe (that’s super big headed to say, sorry!) which is more of a soft, tender bun rather than a harder bun. But the vanilla bun was delicious 🙂

Next, hopped up on sugar, we headed next door to the Geffrye Museum – the museum of the home. Two really cool things about the Geffrye – it’s FREE to get in, and they have free lockers for you to leave bags or shopping while you look around.

IMG_4047

IMG_4043

The museum takes you through the history of the home (spoiler alert) from 1600 till now, focusing on the middle class in London. It’s really interesting to see how the ways homes have been used and decorated have evolved, and why.

There’s also a lovely cafe and gorgeous gardens to wander around…

IMG_4045

IMG_4049

 Have you been to the Geffrye? Do you have any recommendations for our next trip to London?

kerry signature

 

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Share the love!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
  • Print

Filed Under: Life

Previous Post: « Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Flapjacks
Next Post: No Bake Millionaire’s Shortbread Cheesecake Recipe »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CommentLuv badgeShow more posts

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Hi, I'm Kerry!
Cookie-dough addict, rainbow cake lover, friend to cats, never met a pizza I didn't like. VERY enthusiastic human. Homebody and adventurer. Nice to meet you!

Read more about Kerry...
Kerry Line
Facebook 11,405Fans
follow
Twitter 2,410Followers
follow
Instagram 1,800Followers
follow
Pinterest 7,126Subscribers
subscribe
Post 1,118Posts
edit
Comment 8,255Comments
comment
Kerry Line
Kerry Line

A note about links

Some of the links on this site are affiliate links, which means that if you click on it and go on to buy something, I might earn a few pennies (and it will cost you the same!).
Kerry Line
Kerry Line

Footer

Work with me!

I love telling my audience about products I love! Get in touch -> Read More…

  • Bloglovin
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Kerry Cooks Privacy Policy

See it here!

Get Kerry Cooks posts direct to your inbox!

Enter your email address below to get new posts by email, it's FREE!

Join 14,760 other subscribers

Foodies100 Index of UK Food Blogs
Foodies100

Copyright © 2021 Kerry Cooks

X
Subject:
Message: