Exploring London: Old Spitalfields Market, Kensington Gardens & Kyoto Gardens | Zafira

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Hi!

A few blog posts ago, I did a post all about the National Gallery & Tate Britain as a part of my 'Exploring London' series that have been reoccurring over on here for the past 3 years. I spend the majority of my holidays in London as it is the perfect the place to explore and photograph. Throughout the years I find myself falling more and more in love with it. In today's post, I'll be talking all about Old Spitalfields Market, Kensington Gardens & Holland Park. These are three of the most beautiful and amazing places I visited whilst I was in London. 

 We begin this post with one of the best markets I've ever been to. If you're quite into that whole hipster-y sort of thing then this is defo the place for you. It consists of a massive range of stalls fluctuating from food, clothes and all the way to home ware. It's perfect place for lunch and just somewhere to kill a few hours. 

There's a bunch of designer shops around it too so if that's your sort of thing then Old Spitalfields Market is definitely for you!

There's so many cute places to eat.

The next place I visited was Kensington Gardens. This place wasn't really on my list but since a bunch of my younger cousins came with me, I thought it would nice for them to go somewhere where they can just run and play around. I'm so so so glad me and family came here because it is literally the most perfect place to take portraits. I ended up taking so many family pictures which were the cutest but unfortunately I can't show them since I'd like to respect my family's privacy. I ended up getting some photographs of myself and funnily enough some animals? You'll see further down lol.

It was so weird even seeing this Grey Heron. I felt as if I was in the middle of nowhere shooting for Nat Geo.

This is my favourite shot!

I came to Holland Park with intention of visiting Kyoto Gardens which is inside of it. Most of these photographs are taken in Kyoto Gardens which is so beautiful. It's filled with so much culture and is the perfect place to get some concentrated and highly saturated shots since it's filled to the brim with the most vibrant colours. However, the only downside to Kyoto Gardens was that it was so small. From what people had said to me and reading the reviews on Google, I thought it would be quite big. When I got there, I was slightly disappointed by the size but this was out weighed by the beauty of it.

I recommend that if you want to go see Kyoto Gardens  then you should definitely spend a couple of hours walking around Holland Park and see everything it has to offer since it is extremely pretty.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention the peacocks. They really add to the 'je ne sais quoi' of the place.

My hair was doing that whole 'Mulan' thing and I was not happy about it when it came to editing. 

The rest of the photographs are from around Holland Park.

There's so many pretty flowers around Holland Park. This would also be an amazing place to take some portraits or family pics.

I'll be posting these photographs plus a lot more over on my Instagram!

Lots of love,

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